EVELYN CHEN
PIANO

GUEST ARTIST CONCERT SERIES
KATZIN CONCERT HALL
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2007 • 7:30 PM

MU S IC
iFterberger College
of the Arts
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

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Program
The New York Times hailed Evelyn Chen as "a pianist to watch," praising her
"brilliant technique, warm, clear tone, and exacting musical intelligence." Ms.
Chen's recent engagements have included performances on five continents at
venues including Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center,
Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Wolf Trap, the
Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the National
Concert Hall in Taipei, the Cultural Center of Hong Kong, and the Tchaikovsky
Hall in Moscow.
A Steinway Artist, Ms. Chen has performed with numerous orchestras
including the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the
National Symphony Orchestra (upon Mstislav Rostropovich's recommendation),
the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, the New Zealand Symphony, the National
Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, the State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, and
the San Diego Symphony, and has collaborated with renowned conductors
including Riccardo Muti, Leonard Slatkin, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Zdenek
Macal, Joseph Silverstein, Henry Mazer, Alberto Bolet, Enrique Batiz, and JoAnn
Falletta.
Ms. Chen's recent recordings have received international critical acclaim.
Her recording of Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Rhapsody on a Theme
of Paganini with Leonard Slatkin and the Philharmonia Orchestra of London on
BMG, was among the top ten best-selling classical recordings in England. Ms.
Chen's performance was praised by Fanfare Magazine as "eminently musical,
particularly sensitive to Rachmaninov's intimacies." Fanfare further commended
Ms. Chen's recording of the Miklos Rozsa's Piano Concerto with James Sedares
and the New Zealand Symphony on Koch International, stating "it would be hard
to imagine a performance more in tune with the music's dynamism than the one
turned in by Evelyn Chen, who wonderfully communicates a kind of virtuoso
thrill while also capturing every one of the work's Protean changes of mood."
Gramophone Magazine also marveled that "Evelyn Chen is a dazzlingly secure,
marvelously sympathetic exponent that Rozsa fans will rightly welcome with open
arms."
Ms. Chen has been featured on the CBS Evening News, and her performances
have been broadcast by the National Public Radio, WGBH (Boston), WQXR
(New York), WNYC (New York), WNCN (New York), WFMT (Chicago), and
WGTS (Washington DC), as well as throughout Taiwan and Great Britain
(Classic FM). She has collaborated in chamber music with violinist Cho-Liang
Lin, cellist Leslie Parnas, and pianist Charles Wadsworth, as well as members of
the New York Philharmonic. While touring Asia as soloist with the Harvard
Orchestra, Ms. Chen performed before prominent dignitaries including the
Princess of Thailand and the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
A winner of several international competitions, Ms. Chen is the recipient of
the 1995 Petschek Award, which awarded her a fully sponsored New York debut
Cont'd on back

Fantasie in B Minor, Op. 28

Alexander Scriabin
(1872-1915)

Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53

Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
Allegro molto
Adagio ma non troppo
Fuga: Allegro ma non troppo

Frederic Chopin
(1810-1849)
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770-1827)

**There will be a 10-minute intermission**

Sonate fur Klavier, Op. 20
Calmo
Andante con calore
Allegro giusto e vigoroso

Venezia e Napoli

Miklos Rozsa
(1907-1995)

Franz Liszt
(1811-1886)

Gondoliera
Canzone
Tarantella

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recital at Alice Tully Hall. She is also the First Prize Winner of the 1993
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Mieczyslaw Munz International Competition as well as the Grand Prize Winner
the 1984 Piano Guild International Recording Competition. As the younfest
competitor at the age of fourteen, Ms. Chen captured First Prize in the 1981 Bac
International Competition in Washington DC.
Ms. Chen received a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Juilliard School, a
Master of Music from the New England Conservatory, and a Bachelor of Arts in
composition from Harvard University, Magna Cum Laude. Her teachers include
pianists Russell Sherman, Earle Voorhies, Constance Keene, and Jerome
Lowenthal, and composers Leon Kirchner and David Lewin. She is currently an
Associate Professor of Piano at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New
York City.

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