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@ Irvine Barclay Theater
Presented by the UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Stephen Tucker, conductor
Delius – On Hearing The First Cuckoo in Spring
Cantaloube – Songs from the Auvergne (Frances Young, soprano)
Chausson - Poeme for Violin and Orchestra (Andria Chang, violin)
Britten – Cantata Miserecordium (Darryl Taylor, tenor; Robin Buck, baritone; Combined UCI Choirs, Jung-A Lee, conductor)
There're 2 amazing things in this concert. The first one is that our classical mechanics and E&M2 teacher, Professor Chanan, is the 1st chair Viola in the orchestra. His performance on stage is as awesome as his lectures.
The 2nd amazing thing is that I had a chance to take a photo with the famous violin player Andria Chang.
Damn, I should have worn a suit.
Attachment: About Andria Chang
Andria Chang was born in California, USA, in May of 1990. After arduous practice and training, she has achieved several milestones. At the age of eight, she was selected by the Young Musicians Foundation for inclusion in the background orchestration of the movie Music of the Heart, starring Meryl Streep, and directed by Wes Craven. In 2002 at only twelve years of age, Andria placed first in the John Walker Competition, playing Maurice Ravel’s Tzigane, and in that same year, participated in the Fourth Annual International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, held in Xiamen, China. Since 1996, she has earned multiple awards in the Southwestern Youth Music Festival (SYMF) and was also awarded first prize in the 1998 California State Vocalist Orchestra Instruments Chamber Music Ensemble (VOCE), along with her former duet partner.
While attending her public high school, Andria found it difficult to devote her full attention to her violin studies, and felt a lack of excitement in her musical activities. In 2003, however, after being accepted as a student of Professor David Wen’s, Andria’s focus on the violin and the wonders of music intensified. She absorbed professor Wen’s instructions and has since made significant progress. On September 24th, 2004, fourteen-year-old Andria performed Ravel’s Tzigane in Osaka, Japan, artfully accompaniment by Professor Tohru Kitano’s Percussion Orchestra, in a specially arranged setting of this work, by Professor David Loong-Hsing Wen. Also in 2004, Ms. Chang performed alongside several other outstanding musicians in Taipei’s National Grand Theater, in a special recital of professor Wen’s compositions, which included the Concertante: One Stone, Two Birds, and Show of Women. On February 12th, 2005, Andria was the featured soloist in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, at the Sunny Hills Performing Arts Center, USA, with the Clap & Tap Orchestra, and in may that year, premiered David Wen’s revised edition of the Concerto for Violin and Piano, in Irvine, California.
Andria’s formal, solo recital debut, was presented on October 29th, 2005, in Fullerton, California, in a program which included Cesar Franck’s Violin Sonata, Sergei Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto, and Ernest Chausson’s Poème, all to critical acclaim. More recent public appearances have included performances of Mozart’s Concerto No. 4, and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, all with orchestra.
Upcoming performances include an Asian tour (Spring, 2007), with stops in Taipei, Tainan, and Zhongli, in Taiwan; Tokyo, Okinawa, and Osaka, in Japan, and in Hong Kong, China.
