NEC Piano Department Concert: Music by NEC Alumni and Faculty (Part Two)
Three concerts of solo piano music on January 28, February 18, and February 22 by musicians who taught or studied at NEC throughout its remarkable 150-year history. Students from the Piano Department, along with NEC Jazz majors, and students from the Preparatory School will play music by Florence Price, Ferruccio Busoni, Jaki Byard, Gunther Schuller, Cecil Taylor, J. Rosamond Johnson, Chou Wen-chung, and many more.
This concert will be in-person and also livestreamed.
Watch livestream from Jordan Hall:
‡ = NEC current or former faculty * = NEC alum
- Bruce Brubaker, Curator of Piano Programming
Halim El Dabh * | Five Egyptian Folkloric Works (1940)
Shall
Fatta
Ya Nakhletane
Tafta Hindi
Tarkeeb Khoumassi (Wazn Mourabaa)Artists- Bingye Ren, piano (NEC Preparatory School)
Florence B. Price * | Clouds (ca. 1940)
Artists- XueYing Fan, piano
Lee Hyla *‡ | Basic Training (1994)
Artists- Qi Liang, piano
Fred Hersch *‡ | Three Character Studies (2004)
Nocturne for Left Hand Alone
Little Spinning Song
Study in Thirds and SixthsArtists- Rafe Schaberg, piano
Amy Beach ‡ | Dreaming, Opus 15, No. 3 (1892)
Artists- Joseph Vasconi, piano
Amy Beach ‡ | Prelude and Fugue, Opus 81 (1917)
Artists- Bairun Liu, piano
Cecil Taylor * | Lono (1973)
Artists- Jonathan Paik, piano (NEC Jazz Dept)
Ran Blake ‡ | Memphis
Artists- Santiago Galeano, piano (NEC Jazz Dept)
Lei Liang * | Garden Eight (1996/2004)
Tian 天 [Heaven]
Di 地 [Earth]
Dong 東 [East]
Nan 南 [South]
Hsi 西 [West]
Bei 北 [North]
Artists- Pin-Chieh Jewel Chen, piano
Three concerts of solo piano music on January 28, February 18, and February 22 by musicians who taught or studied at NEC throughout its remarkable 150-year history. Students from the Piano Department...