Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts Presents: Isabella Li Lao, violin; Dina Vainshtein, piano

Artist(s)

Violinist Isabella Li Lao’s playing has been described as “delicate and deeply moving, full of imagination, radiating the warmth of sunlight.” As a soloist, she has collaborated with leading orchestras worldwide and has appeared with distinguished conductors including Zubin Mehta, Shui Lan, Hans Graf, Benjamin Zander, Chen Xieyang, Zhang Guoyong, Chen Lin, and composer-conductors Tan Dun and Bright Sheng.

Pianist Dina Vainshtein collaborates with some of the most promising musicians of our time. Dina graduated from the Gnesin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow.  At the 1998 International Tchaikovsky Competition, she received the Special Prize for the Best Collaborative Pianist. Maestro Benjamin Zander praised “she is the ultimate professional.”