Posts Tagged ‘Chi-Yuan Chen’
Lionel Bringuier Conducts the San Diego Symphony in Rachmaninoff and Elgar at Civic Theatre
Following a brilliant account of Modest Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ last week, the San Diego Symphony returned to Civic Theatre Saturday, March 16, to play Rachmaninoff and Elgar under Lionel Bringuier.
Read MoreArt of Élan Presents Brooklyn Rider at The Conrad’s JAI Hall in La Jolla
Tuesday, April 16, Art of Élan presented the New York City-based Brooklyn Rider ensemble with guest clarinetist Kinan Azmeh at the recently opened Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center’s JAI performance space in downtown La Jolla.
Read MoreArt of Élan Celebrates New Chamber Works at San Diego Museum of Art
Art of Élan completed its adventurous season at the San Diego Museum of Art Tuesday (May 15) with a spectacularly eclectic program of music by younger contemporary composers, including American Sarah Kirkland Snider and Argentine Andrés Martin who were in the audience . . .
Read MoreCellist Andrei Ioniță Amazes in Elgar Cello Concerto with the San Diego Symphony
Friday’s San Diego Symphony concert turned out to be an evening of thrilling rhapsodies, crowned by Edward Elgar’s rhapsodic Cello Concerto featuring 24-year-old International Tchaikovsky Competition prize winner Andrei Ioniță.
Read MoreHarpsichordist Ohnishi Pits Contemporary Composer Lei Lang Against J. S. Bach in a Musical Fight to the Finish
For her Wednesday (April 26) harpsichord recital at UC San Diego’s Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, Takae Ohnishi featured the music of J. S. Bach interspersed with chamber works by the contemporary composer Lei Liang . . .
Read MoreArt of Élan: Music and Art in Total Immersion at the Museum of Contemporary Art
While San Diegans were celebrating Mardi Gras in the streets of the Gaslamp District, Art of Élan staged its own fete in another quarter of downtown at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Surrounded by Jennifer Steenkamp’s massive video installation “Madame Curie,” Art of Élan Co-Artistic Director Kate Hatmaker and company played a chamber music concert as mesmerizing as Steenkamp’s undulating flowers . . .
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