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CLASSICAL ENCOUNTERS FOUNDATION presents Steven Vanhauwaert – Piano & Cécilia Tsan – Cello
Admission: Donations:
$45 Reserved, $35 General, $20 Students
Purchase Tickets from the Website: www.classicalencounters.org
Food: Light Supper with Wine is provided at the conclusion of the concert when you
can meet the Musicians
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Program : Gabriel
Fauré: Elégie/Ludwig
van Beethoven: Sonata in A major/
Pyotr
Ilych Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile/Dimitri
Chostakovitch: Sonata
Background Steven
Vanhauwaert, pianist, was hailed by the Los Angeles Times for his 'impressive
clarity, sense of structure and monster technique', and has garnered a wide array of accolades, amongst which the Maurice Lefranc award, the Rotary Prize,
the Galiot Prize and the USC Concerto Competition. In October 2004 hewon the
Grand Prize at the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, which enabled
him to tour through the US and Hungary.
To date, Steven has appeared in major venues with orchestras such as the
Pacific Symphony, the Flemish Symphony, the Oak Ridge Symphony, the USC
Symphony, the Bryan Symphony, Collegium Instrumentale, the Concord Jazz
Ensemble, the Auburn Symphony, the Eastern Sierra Chamber Orchestra, the
Peninsula Symphony, and Prima la Musica, amongst others. He performs frequently
throughout Europe, Asia and the US, as a recitalist and in chamber music
ensembles. He has been invited to perform in major concert venues such as the
Concertgebouw in Brugge, Segerstrom Hall in Costa Mesa, Bovard Auditorium in
Los Angeles, the Singel in Antwerp, the Great Hall of the Brussels
Conservatory, the Great Hall of the Budapest Liszt conservatory, as well as
numerous other prestigious venues in Bulgaria, Hungary, China, the US, the
Netherlands, France, Canada, the UK, Austria, and Spain. His China solo debut
tour in June 2010, culminating with a debut at the renowned National Center for
the Performing Arts in Beijing, was received with great critical acclaim.
He was immediately offered a solo tour for the next season with performances in
the prestigious Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, amongst others.
Steven has been a frequent guest in festivals such as: the Jacaranda Music
Festival, the Festival of Flanders, the Eastern Sierra Music Festival, Musik
Zentral, the Malibu Coast Music Festival, the Sundays-at-two series, the
Salastina Festival, le Salon de Musiques, the Sundays Live Series, the Arizona
Friends of Chamber Music, and Euterpe, among many others.
An avid champion of lesser known repertoire, Steven has given the West Coast
premiere of Messiaen's Fantaisie for violin and piano at Grace Cathedral in San
Francisco, and he frequently champions compositions by Walter Arlen, Emilio
Colon, Viktor Ullman, Leon Kirchner, Jeroen D'hoe, Nico Abondolo, Chen Yi, Tan
Dun, Maria Newman, Gernot Wolfgang, Tobias Picker, and Karel Goeyvaerts, to
name a few.
In 2010, his first album with works by Schumann, Schubert, Liszt, Chopin, and
Debussy, was well received in the press. His performances have been broadcast
live on networks such as K-MZT, K-CSN, K-USC, K-PFK, W-HKB, W-UOT, K-UAT,
W-FMT, RTBF, WTV, PBS, and KLARA.
Steven Vanhauwaert conducted his piano studies in Brussels at the Royal
Conservatory under the auspices of Boyan Vodenitcharov. He continued his
musical development in Los Angeles with professors Kevin Fitz-Gerald, James
Bonn, and John Perry at the USC Thornton School of Music. He is frequently
invited to give guest lecture recitals and masterclasses in universities
throughout the world.
Cécilia Tsan – cellist: "Uncompromising musical character and a
towering technique… In the breadth of her virtuosity and the charisma of her
musical personality, Tsan made this work her own.” (Daniel Cariaga/Los Angeles
Times, about her performance of the Haydn D Major Concerto).
Born in France, Cécilia began
playing the cello with the same teacher as her childhood friend Yo-Yo Ma. After
majoring in Philosophy and Chinese, she was accepted at the Conservatoire
National Supérieur de Musique de Paris under André Navarra, and was awarded the
1st Prize for Cello summa cum laude and the 1st Prize for Chamber Music. She is
a prizewinner at the Barcelona International Competition, the Florence
International Competition and the winner of the Debussy Prize at the Paris
International Competition.
She toured throughout the world
not only as a soloist, but also as a chamber musician with Rudolf Firkusny,
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Michel Dalberto, Jean Hubeau, Bruno Rigutto, Pascal Rogé,
Pierre Amoyal, Augustin Dumay, Martin Chalifour, Hatto Beyerle, Gérard Caussé, Bruno Pasquier, Paul Neubauer, Heiichiro Ohyama. She regularly performs on the
radio and for television and films. Since she moved to Los Angeles, she has been recording hundreds of movie soundtracks
with many composers such as John Williams, James Newton-Howard, James Horner,
Randy Newman, Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, David Newman, Jerry Goldsmith, Alan
Silvestri, Alexandre Desplats, John Debney to name a few. She
recorded a CD (Eleven pieces for Cello and Piano) under the Cybelia label and
two CDs of chamber music by Weber and Ropartz under the Timpani label, both
with pianist Jean-Louis Haguenauer.
She currently serves as
Principal Cellist with the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, and occasionally the
Pasadena Symphony, a position she previously held with New West Symphony.
Recent performances include the Tchaikovsky Roccoco Variations, the Elgar, Lalo and Saint-Saëns Cello
Concertos, as well as various chamber music concerts. Several composers,
including jazz-pianist Clare Fischer (Suite for Cello and String Orchestra) and
Music Director Enrique Diemecke have written solo pieces for her. As a founding
member of the Pantoum Trio, she also recorded "Jazz and Cocktails", a
piano trio written by Gernot Wolfgang. The CD was released in July 2006 to
critical acclaim.
Her recent performances include the Suite from Memoirs of a Geisha by
John Williams, Dvorak Cello Concerto as well as Brahms Double Concerto with
violinist Tereza Stanislav. At one of her many chamber music appearances, she
performed the world premiere Eric Tanguy’s piano trio, especially written for
her and published by Salabert: the world premiere was recorded and broadcast by
Radio-France in Paris.
In November 2014, she will give
the West Coast Premiere of Eric Tanguy’s 2nd Cello Concerto
premiered by Mstislav Rostropovitch and Seiji Ozawa. Cécilia has also served as Principal Cello for the
Academy Awards, the Emmys, American Idols, Dancing with the Stars and America’s
Got Talent.
