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Have you heard the story about the younger emerging artist stepping in at the last minute to save the concert?
With only one day's notice, award-winning violist Born Lau and pianist George Fu, are doing just that!
This 8 pm one-hour concert replaces the scheduled performance by Philadelphia Orchestra violinist, Kimberly Fisher. Hear Born Lau here
Please join me to enjoy these extraordinary musicians (and to hear a 6 pm master class too.)
Musically yours,
Kathy Judd, Artistic and Executive Director
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 Born Lau, viola
Award-winning Astral Artist
George Fu, piano
"immaculately refined" (Philadelphia Inquirer)
Saturday
December 13, 2014
Free (donations welcome)
Westmoreland Congregational Church 1 Westmoreland Circle
Bethesda, MD 20816
Piece en forme de Habanera - Ravel
Sonata in G minor - Eccles/Klengel
Romanze for Viola & Piano, Op. 85 - Bruch
unusta V - Riho Esko Maimets
Etudes Op. 10, Nos 8 & 10 for solo piano - Chopin
Tango from Sarasateana - Primrose/Zimbalist
Saturday, December 13 at 6 pm
Master Class with Born Lau
Edvinas Minkstimas, piano
Violin Student Performers
Melody Qian, age 9
Charles Dancla - Air Varie on a theme of Pacini, Op 89, No 1
Asher Boorstin, age 13
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto No. 3 in G Major: Allegro
Diana Rumrill
Manuel de Falla/Kreisler - Danse espagnole - La Vida Breve
Born Lau is a winner of Astral Artists' 2012 National Auditions. He was awarded the 2013 Prix Musique de Chambre at the American School in Fontainebleu, France, and captured the top prize at both the 2009 Artist Series of Sarasota Scholarship Competition and the 2008 Music Society of Coral Lakes Scholarship Award. He has been a prizewinner at the 2014 Primrose International Viola Competition and the Hellam Young Artists' Schmidbauer International Strings, and Artists Series of Sarasota competitions. The enterprising artist also recently organized a fundraising concert for UNICEF.
Praised for his "immaculately refined" playing (The Philadelphia Inquirer), violist Born Lau has appeared internationally as both a soloist and chamber musician. The current Principal Violist of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Lau was invited to appear as the Guest Principal Violist of San Diego Symphony in the 2012-2013 season. He has performed as soloist with the Hong Kong Festival Orchestra, the New Valley Symphony Orchestra, the Dreyfoos Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Colburn Orchestra, and appeared as soloist in Hong Kong in the summer of 2011. He has appeared at the Yellow Barn and Sarasota Music festivals and at Switzerland's Verbier Festival Academy, and performs as violist of the Tallis String Quartet.
Originally from Hong Kong, Born Lau graduated from high school in West Palm Beach, Florida. He began studying the violin at the age of seven and the viola at eleven. His past private teachers include Richard Fleischman, Karen Tuttle, and Evan Wilson, and he studied chamber music with Ronald Leonard, John Perry, and Arnold Steinhardt. Mr. Lau holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Paul Coletti. He currently studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with Roberto Diaz, and has given master classes at Temple Music Prep and the New World School of the Arts.
American pianist George Fu has been a frequent participant in numerous international and national piano competitions. Some highlights include: First Place, 2009 Blount-Slawson National Concerto Competition in Montgomery, AL; First Place, 2008 National Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition in Washington, D.C.; First Place, 2008 MTNA National Senior Piano Duet Competition in Denver, CO; Most recently, George Fu has been a semifinalist in the Busoni International Piano Competition (Aug 2011) and the Hilton Head International Piano Competition (Mar 2012). He had his orchestral debut in 2009 with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., playing Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, and has performed concerti with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Curtis Lab Orchestra, the Bach Society Orchestra at Harvard University and many others. Mr. Fu also studies composition and conducting. As a composer, Mr. Fu has studied with Carolyn Lamb Booth, Richard Beaudoin, and David Ludwig, and he has won several awards for his solo piano compositions. George served as the 2012-2013 Music Director of the Dunster House Opera of Harvard University, conducting a production of Jules Massenet's Cendrillon. He has studied conducting under Sean Newhouse and Federico Cortese. A native of Frederick, MD, George graduated with a bachelor's degree from Harvard University. He is currently pursuing an artist diploma in piano performance at the Curtis Institute of Music under the tutelage of Meng-Chieh Liu.
More information:
301-320-2770 or online
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The Washington Conservatory Upcoming 2015 Concerts
Piano, Plus!
FREE (donations welcome)
Westmoreland Congregational Church
1 Westmoreland Circle, Bethesda, MD 20816
Alexander Paley, piano
Saturday January 10 at 8 pm
Chopin, Tchaikovsky/Liszt, Tchaikovsky/Paley
Danielle Cho, cello
Saturday February 7 at 8 pm
Cello Monologues
Audrey Andrist, piano
James Stern, violin
Nathan Williams, clarinet
Saturday March 7 at 8 pm
Joplin Rags to Schumann Fairy Tales
Faculty Scholarship Benefit
Saturday March 28 at 7 pm
Celebration of Music - instrumental and vocal soloists
John O'Conor, piano
Saturday April 18 at 8 pm
Schubert B flat Major Sonata &
Beethoven Diabelli Variations
 Haskell Small, piano Saturday May 16 at 8 pm
Bach goes Berserk - Bach, Adams, Small
Michael Adcock, piano
Friday June 5 at 7:30 pm
Orchestra in a Piano: The Art of Transcription
All programs subject to change.
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The Washington Conservatory is a nationally accredited community music school serving the greater Bethesda, MD and Washington, DC area since 1984.
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Serving students of all ages - kids, teens, and adults - beginners to advanced. No audition.
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