CHINA STAGE

Monday, August 12
Church of the Holy Spirit, 9 p.m.
CHINA STAGE: PHOENIX

PROGRAM

Carl Czerny  (1791–1857)
Variations on a Theme by Rode 'La Ricordanza' Op. 33

Feruccio Busoni (1866–1924)

Sonatina No. 6 (Chamber Fantasy after George Bizet’s Opera 'Carmen')

Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante, Op. 22

Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Isolde‘s Liebestod from Richard Wagner’s Opera 'Tristan und Isolde'  

Zhou Long (1953)
Wu Kui

Vasilije Mokranjac (1923–1984)
Etudes for Piano
1. Presto con indolenza
2. Andante
7. Presto ritmico    
6. Quasi toccata. Presto possibile

Partners of the concert:

Yutian Yang, piano, started playing at the age of four and a half. In the Music Middle School Affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, she began studying Piano in 2016, under Professor William Chen, an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM). In 2023, she was awarded the Gold Medal at the Eleventh International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. Despite her youth, at seventeen, Yutian Yang is an experienced concert pianist with an extraordinary passion for the stage and a delicate sense of music. In China, she has performed with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. She has collaborated with renowned cellist Jian Wang in the Brahms Piano Trio. Her piano duo won the Talent Program of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Her career has been supported by the Yangtze River National Program for Young Artists in China. Yutian Yang is currently attending the Music Middle School Affiliated to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.