Artists Showcase West - Claire Huangci, piano

Claire Huangci, piano

March 20, 2011

Johnson Auditorium

Winner of the 2010 National Chopin Competition in Miami, Ms. Huangci has given solo and concerto performances in Europe, Africa, Asia and America.

The American 20 year old has performed in Carnegie Hall and with many American orchestras.

During her Asian tour in 2010, Ms. Huangci performed Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at the opening of the Shanghai World Expo with the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Stuttgart conducted by Sir Roger Norrington.

More information about Claire Huangci

Tickets are available at the door on the day
of concerts: $30 (Students, grades 1-12, $15 )

You may be able to win two tickets to this concert

by participating in the WFMT quiz at 8:30 am on
March 3 and 10.

Claire Huangci

Pre-concert Discussion
2:00 pm

Concert
3:00 pm

THE PROGRAM

Partita in C minor BWV 826 (1726 –1731)                                                   J. S. Bach

Sonata No.28 Op. 101 in A major (1816)                                                                L. van Beethoven

Excerpts of "The Sleeping Beauty", Op. 66 — arr. for Piano by M. Pletnev          P.I. Tchaikovsky

INTERMISSION

Sonata no. 2 in G-sharp minor Op. 19 “Sonata-Fantasy” (1897)      A. N. Scriabin

Preludes Op. 32 (1910)                                                                                            S. Rachmaninoff
    No. 3 in E major (Allegro vivace)
    No. 4 in E minor (Allegro con brio)
    No. 5 in G major (Moderato)

Ballade No. 1 in G minor Op. 23 (1836)       F. Chopin

Danse Macabre (transcription of C. Saint-Saëns op. 40), S 555 — arr. V. Horowitz)              F. Liszt