Pianist Larry Weng at Gardner Museum Calderwood Hall. Sat. 7/24, 8 pm. FREE. Reservation required

Program: Schumann, Corigliano, Schubert, and Brahms – Homage to Beethoven
Larry Weng, pianist, www.larrywengpiano.com
Winner of the 2019 NYCA Worldwide Debut Audition and a laureate of the 2016 Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition, Larry Weng has been described in The New York Times as playing with “steely power and incisive rhythm.” In the New York Concert Review as “an extremely sensitive musician and mature interpreter,” and “mature beyond his years.” And in ConcertoNet as, “Radiant and transparent, picturesque and picaresque, wild but with the artistic perfection of wildness.” Weng is also a laureate of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto Competition, the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition for Young Musicians, The New York International Piano Competition, the Kosciuzsko Foundation Chopin Competition, and the Wideman International Piano Competition.

Mr. Weng has been in concert in France, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, China, Japan, Brazil, and Venezuela. He has participated in the Ravinia Steans Institute and the Verbier Academy, and has worked with Claude and Pamela Frank, Gabor Takacs, David Shifrin, David Soyer, amongst others. Recent highlights include an extensive Midwest tour with violinist Kerson Leong and his Berlin debut at the Berliner Philharmonie. He is a full-time of the award winning two piano, two percussion ensemble, Icarus Quartet.

In 2009, Mr. Weng graduated from the joint degree program between Columbia University and The Juilliard School with a BA in Economics and an MM in Piano Performance under the tutelage of Professors Jerome Lowenthal and Matti Raekallio. He continued with Professor Boris Berman at the Yale School of Music, and in 2019, received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree. As of the 2021-2022 academic year, Mr. Weng will serve on the faculty of the Wake Forest University Department of Music.