ILLINOIS CENTRAL COLLEGE MUSIC PROGRAM PRESENTS PIANO RECITAL FEATURING MUSIC OF TAIWANESE COMPOSERS APRIL 18
The Illinois Central College Music
Program presents The Sounds of Formosa, a recital featuring
award-winning pianist Dr. Pei-I Wang on Monday, April 18 at 7:30 pm in
Lecture/Recital Hall Room 127F, located on the East Peoria Campus.
The event features a selection of
Taiwanese composers’ piano compositions performed by Wang and rising artist
Meng-Chun Chien. Wang was the winner of the 2011 Liszt-Garrison International
Piano Competition, and Chien took first prize in the 2016 Kankakee Piano
Concerto Competition.
The concert will include works for
piano solo, piano duet, and piano duo music. Compositional styles include
character pieces, suite, waltz, transcriptions/arrangements of Taiwanese folk
tunes, the atonal work, and the delightful Western-Chinese synthetic medleys.
Music selected for this event was
chosen in tribute to two prominent Taiwanese composers who passed away in 2015 ─
Shui-Long Ma and Tyzen Hsiao. Both composers were highly respected in the
Taiwanese music society, leaving a lasting legacy and musical heritage along
with their dedication and efforts in music education, which were invaluable to
following generations. Pieces chosen for this recital were written by other
composers who also received Western musical training and adapted the Taiwanese
or Chinese folkloric influences in their compositions, including Su-Ti Chen,
Yen Lu and the Wille-Yeh Piano Duo. In acknowledging those wonderful composers
and their works, the concert will not only bring the audiences to enjoy
Taiwanese cultural and musical traditions through the classical medium of piano
but also will reflect their accomplishments on the viewpoints of
ethnomusicology and recognize them as major contributors to the Taiwanese
composition leagues and music society.
The event is free and open to the
public.
For more information, contact the
Box Office at (309) 694-5136.
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