Pianist Xiayin Wang Plays Concert At Shakespeare Theater Of NJ 5/8
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present a special piano concert event featuring the internationally known, exciting, young pianist Xiayin Wang (pictured) on Friday, May 8 at 8 p.m. at the Dorothy Young Center for the Arts, 36 Madison Avenue, Madison (on the campus of Drew University). Proceeds from the concert will benefit The Shakespeare Theatre's extensive education programs.
Tickets are $30 and $25 and can be purchased by calling The Shakespeare Theatre box office at 973-408-5600 or online at www.ShakespeareNJ.org.
To learn more about Xiayin Wang, visit www.XiayinWangPiano.com. An artist with a winning combination of consummate technical brilliance, fine musicianship, and personal verve, pianist Xiayin Wang wins the hearts of audiences wherever she appears. As recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral soloist at such venues as New York's Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, she has earned a place among the musical elite of her generation.
"Even for the most gifted young pianist, it takes a lot to be noticed...Xiayin Wang is clearly doing something right," said Steve Smith of The New York Times of Ms. Wang's Carnegie Hall recital. "(She has) an estimable grasp of pianistic color and an ability to maintain and illuminate a strand of melody within the thickest of textures." Ms. Wang's performance is made possible courtesy of Palomino Entertainment Group. Her May 8th program at the Dorothy Young Center for the Arts, a prelude to her Alice Tully Hall recital, will include the following:
Joseph Haydn -- Sonata No. 52, in E-Flat Major
I. Allegro
II.Adagio
III. Finale. Presto
Frédéric Chopin -- Ballade No. 2, in F Major
Alexander Scriabin -- Waltz, op. 38 in A-Flat Major
Astor Piazzolla -- Adios Nonino (Tango Rapsody)
George Gershwin
Prelude No.1
"I've got Rhythm"
Earl Wild-G. Gershwin
Etude No. 4: Embraceable You
Etude No. 3: The Man I Love
Franz Liszt -- Mephisto Waltz I
Maurice Ravel -- Gaspard de la Nuit: Scarbo
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