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MFY Presents Pianist Han Chen
February 9 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
$10
Join us for an afternoon of spectacular music featuring pianist Han Chen, a fearless performer with seemingly limitless imagination and possessed with uncanny energy.
The public is invited to the masterclass following the concert.
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About Han Chen
A Gold Medalist at the 2013 China International Piano Competition and a prizewinner at the 2018 Honens International Piano Competition, Mr. Chen has also been praised by Gramophone as “impressively com-manding and authoritative” and further cited by The New York Times for his “graceful touch,” “rhythmic precision” and “hypnotic charm.”
He has appeared as soloist with the Calgary Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, China Symphony Orchestra, and Xiamen Philharmonic. In December 2022 he made his Lincoln Center debut with Riverside Symphony at Alice Tully Hall performing Mozart’s early masterwork, the Piano Concerto No. 9, le Jeunehomme. Mr. Chen has performed as solo recitalist internationally. In demand as a chamber musician, he is a core member of Ensemble Échappé while regularly collaborating with The Metropolis Ensemble. In 2021, Chen launched Migration Music, an ongoing series of performances and interviews with immigrant composers.
His program will include: The Chopin: Fantasie-Impromptu, Op. 66, Florence Price: Fantasie Nègre in E minor, Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 and the Scriabin: Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28.
Edouard Ferragu, the MFY Emerging Artist will open the program.
About Edouard
Edouard is a Freshman at Hopkins School in New Haven, CT, currently studies piano and chamber music with Professor Delana Thomsen at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division.
He began his piano studies with David Brooks at the age of 7 and performed his first solo piano recital in June 2024 under his guidance.
Edouard had the honor of being the First Prize Winner at the Golden Key Music Festival in 2022, 2023, and 2024 and subsequently performed at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall.
He has attended piano festivals in Paris, France, and also at the Hotchkiss School. This summer he looks forward to following Prof. Thomsen to Italy for Master Classes and Performances at her festival. Edouard has had the great distinction of participating in master classes with Fabio and Gisele Witkowski, Michel Bourdoncle, Leonel Morales, and Oxana Yoblanskaya.
