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Young Artists Series
Fairfield University, in association with The Stecher and Horowitz Foundation presents The Young Artists Series, featuring prize winners of The New York International Piano Competition.
Kate Liu
Sunday, January 27 at 3 p.m.
FREE
Born in Singapore, Kate Liu began playing the piano when she was four years old, and moved to the United States with her family when she was eight years of age. She won the Illinois Junior Music Teachers National Association Competition in 2007 and 2008 and both the Junior and Senior Divisions of the Chicago Steinway Competition in 2006 and 2007 respectively, and performed on the Young Steinway Concert Series in 2007. In 2008, Kate won Second Prize in the International Institute for Young Musicians Competition, and received honors in the regionals of the Junior MTNA Competition.
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Jonathan Coombs and Igor Lovchinsky
Sunday, February 17 at 3 p.m.
FREE
Two prize-winning, Juilliard-trained pianists present an afternoon of musical delights at The Quick! Coombs, whom The New Yorker called "soulful and unbuttoned," has wowed audiences from Boston Symphony Hall to Ravinia's "Rising Stars Showcase" in Chicago. Russian-born Lovchinsky, a first prize-winner at the Eastman International Piano Competition and the National Chopin Piano Competition, was hailed by Gramophone as a "star of the future."
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Yen Yu Chen
Sunday, April 21 at 3 p.m.
FREE
Yen Yu Chen, pianist, born in 1994, became the Second Prize Winner at the Fifth New York International Piano Competition in June, 2010, a biennial event presented under the auspices of The Stecher and Horowitz Foundation. In addition to her cash award, she has appeared in concert on the Foundation's Young Artists Series. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Yen Yu began studying the piano at age six, exhibiting an exceptional musical talent. In 2003, she traveled to Austria where she studied and performed in Graz. At the age of 10, she was accepted at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a student of Eleanor Sokoloff, and is currently studying with Gary Graffman