Renowned Violinist Cho-Liang Lin Headlines Free Virtual 'Front Row: National' Concert Starting Nov. 15
Acclaimed "remarkably sweet-toned" violinist Cho-Liang Lin stars as the featured soloist in the next on-demand episode of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s "Front Row: National."”
This free virtual event streams from noon on Monday, Nov. 15, through noon on Friday, Nov. 19. Registration is required. For details and to register, visit https://cpa.psu.edu/events/cmslc-cho-liang-lin.
The program showcases Lukas Foss’s “Composer’s Holiday” from Three American Pieces for violin and piano, with pianist Jon “Jackie” Kimura Parker; Antonín Dvořák’s Larghetto from Sonatina in G Major for Violin and Piano, Op. 100 (with Parker); and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Sextet for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Two Cellos, Op. 70, “Souvenir de Florence” (with violinist Erin Keefe; violists Paul Neubauer and Hsin-Yun Huang; and cellists Dmitri Atapine and Colin Carr).
The Chamber Music Society’s high-definition concert video features an introduction by Co-Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han, plus an intermission interview with Lin.
This performance is part of the Center for the Performing Arts’ “Up Close and Virtual” 2021 season, made free thanks to a grant from the University Park Student Fee Board.
The first Taiwanese violinist to achieve international stardom, Lin serves as artistic director of the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival and founded the Taipei Musical Academy and Festival in 2019. Named Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America in 2000 for his "sweet-toned and persuasive" playing, he has performed with top ensembles worldwide, including at Eisenhower Auditorium in 1987. Lin plays a rare 1715 “Titian” Stradivarius.
Longtime collaborators and Juilliard roommates Lin and Parker, now colleagues at Rice University, delivered "talent and imagination" in their 2019 concert, per The Strad. They recently released an album of sonatas by Paul Schoenfield, John Harbison, and Steven Stucky, and reunite here after joint tours.
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s "Front Row: National" series offers stunning, full-length HD videos from its archive.
Finckel and Wu Han have performed at the Center for the Performing Arts as a duo in 2005 and with violinist Philip Setzer in 2017 and 2018 for Beethoven Piano Trios. Finckel also appeared at Penn State in 1990, 2002, and 2009 with the Emerson String Quartet.
Support for this virtual presentation comes from Foxdale Village, Elinor C. Lewis, Pieter W. and Lida Ouwehand, and Lam and Lina Hood.
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