Live concert is FREE. Donation appreciated. 80 seats allowed are all taken. If the restriction relax and more seats become available, we will offer to the Standby-Waiting list, first-come-first-served. Video recording of the entire concert will be on YouTube about one week after the performance. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUDuiQiOzZI_M7iDNXWXEDA/videos
Details: http://www.chineseperformingarts.net/contents/season/20210227/index.html

Program:
Mozart: sonata for violin and piano K.301 in G Major
Beethoven: sonata for violin and piano Op. 12 No.1 in D Major
Intermission
Mozart: Sonata for violin and piano K.304 in E Minor
Beethoven: sonata for violin and piano Op. 24 in F Major “Spring”

Angelo Xiang Yu, violinist
www.angeloviolin.com

Recipient of both a 2019 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2019 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, as well as First Prize in the 2010 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. He has won consistent critical acclaim and enthusiastic audience response worldwide for his astonishing technique and exceptional musical maturity.

Mr. Yu joined the faculty at the New England Conservatory Preparatory in 2015, and also a guest faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the summer of 2020, he became the newest member of the Shanghai Quartet. He is an artist in residence at John J. Cali School of Music and at Montclair State University, and a resident faculty member at The Tianjin Juilliard School as well.
He performs on the 1715 “Joachim” Stradivarius violin, generously on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.

Feng Niu, pianist

Ms. Niu is a candidate of Doctor of Musical Arts degree at New England Conservatory. She is a staff pianist at NEC working with renowned artists such as Miriam Fried, Soovin Kim, Paula Robison, Donald Weilerstein, Paul Katz, Kim Kashkashian, and Laurence Lesser. She has been a staff pianist at Bowdoin International Music Festival since 2018.
Ms. Niu is a long-term partner with flutist virtuoso Annie Wu, who is the winner of Astral Artists’ 2015 Auditions as well as the First Prize winner of the 2016 James Pappoutsakis Flute Competition.