Thursday, November 19th at 7:30 PM

JP Concerts presents Ai-Ying Chiu, classical pianist, in a solo recital program including pieces by Rachmaninoff, Chopin, and Beethoven (see below for full program). JP Concerts tickets are $10 general admission at the door.

Ai-Ying Chiu has appeared as both soloist and chamber pianist at many important concert halls in Germany and France, and as well as Town Hall in New York City, Le Petit Trianon in San Jose (California), Seully Hall in Boston, Walter Hall in Toronto (Canada), Basilica San Francesco in Assisi (Italy), Rachmaninoff Concert Hall in Tambov (Russia), and Chih-Shan Hall of Chiang Kai-Shek Cultural Center in Kaohsiung City (Taiwan). In pursuit of her Master's degree and Graduate Performance Diploma, she studied with Michael Lewin at Boston Conservatory where she was the winner of the H. Wilfred Churchill Piano Scholarship Competition in 2006 and the Piano Honors Competition in 2007 and 2009, and an Honorable Mention Award recipient in the 2008 Mozart Concerto Competition. She was also an Honorable Mention Award recipient at the 2008 Chinese International Piano Competition in New York City. Ai-Ying has worked and performed with Sinphonia Perusina, conducted by Enrico Marconi, and Boston Conservatory Orchestra, conducted by Bruce Hangen. She has played in master classes given by Menahem Pressler, Anton Kurti, Kum Sing Lee, Vladimir Viardo, Jorge Federico Osorio, Victor Rosenbaum, Jennifer Lim, Enrique Graf, and many others.

Program

Rachmaninoff: Variations on a theme of Corelli

Chopin: Nocturn op.72 no.1

Chopin: Ballade in G minor, op.23

Intermission

Beethoven: Sonata op.57 "Appassionata"