The Brand Associates Music Series features virtuosos from Southern California performing repertoire favorites and ne w music by living composers. All concerts will take place in the Brand Lib rary Recital Hall. Admission is free and seating is limited. Sponsored by the Brand Associates.
\nSheng-Ching Hsu - violin &\; Xiao Chen - piano
\nA native of Taiwan\, Sheng-Ching Hsu is a member of Delirium Musicum\, California Symphony and New West Symphony\, and serves as guest principal 2nd violin of St. Matthew's Chamber Orchestra. She also serves as a faculty at CSULB and Colburn Community School of Performing Arts. A f irm believer in the power of music\, Hsu created &ldquo\;S-C Sidewalk Perf ormance\,&rdquo\; where she brought weekly live music to the street corner s of West LA during the pandemic\, and was featured on KTTV Fox 11 Los Ang eles and EliteGen Magazine in Toronto\, Canada. Her story was also made in to a documentary by &ldquo\;Aria&rsquo\;s Lens&rdquo\; in China.
\nA ward-winning pianist Dr. Xiao Chen is actively engaged as both a soloist a nd chamber musician throughout the US\, China\, and Europe. Dr. Chen is cu rrently on faculty at Mount Saint Mary&rsquo\;s University\, having served as Lecturer in Piano Performance at the University of California\, Los An geles (UCLA) in 2019. She is the music director of Irvine Conservatory of Music\, as well as the artistic director of Irvine Conservatory Internatio nal Music Competition. Her articles about music and teaching have been pub lished in the U.S. and China. She has also collaborated with Bard Conserva tory US-China Music Institute and created a new piano program for young st udents in China.
\nProgram - Her Voices: Music by Female Compose
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Marjorie Merryman: 2020 Visions \;
Kala Ramnath: Aal
ap and Tarana \;
Clara Schumann: 3 Romances\, op. 22 \;
Amy Beach: Romance op. 23
Florence Price: Fantasie No. 2 in F-sharp M
inor
-Intermission-
Hung-Ping Chang: \;Selections from "Dans
e de Ballet en Solo"\, pour violon solo et piano \;
Michiru Oshim
a: Memories \;
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Episode
For informat ion on the entire music series\, visit \;BrandLibrary.org/Music-Series< /p>\n
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\nAmple free parking is available in Brand Park. An acce ssible entrance and accessible parking for cars with a disabled parking pl acard or license plate is located on the East side of Brand Library.
\nFor additional information about this event\, please contact Brand Libr ary &\; Art Center at (818) 548-2051 \;or send us an email at \ ;Info@BrandLibrary.org.
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