Award-winning pianist Ying Li will perform Saturday at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Center in Fort Myers.photo courtesy
The Southwest Florida Symphony, in partnership with the Grand Piano Series of Naples, will present its final performance of the season with pianist Ying Li at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall in Fort Myers on Saturday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m. will hold a masterworks concert. Famous classical works by Jennifer Higdon, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Modest Mussorgsky, performed by Lee with Maestro Radu Paponiu leading the orchestra.
As part of the symphony’s signature series, patrons will attend a special pre-concert lecture before the show, led by Lee and Paponyu, including a Q&A session to enhance the concert experience and learn more about the works being performed. You will also be given the opportunity to provide insight into Lecture starts at 18:30
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Award-winning pianist Ying Li will perform Saturday at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Center in Fort Myers.photo courtesy
On April 20th at 7:30 PM, The Grand Piano Series will feature Ying Li’s solo piano recital at the Moorings Presbyterian Church in Naples, Florida. The program showcases the full evolution of the piano repertoire over 200 years, featuring composers such as Haydn, Liszt and Granger, all of whom were the stars of the era and his virtuosos.Also, Stravinsky’s instant classic “Firebird” It will be exciting with piano fireworks. The show will feature a special pre-concert talk with Mike Lee at 6:30pm. For tickets, visit grandpianoseries.org or call 469-333-3231.
praised as “elegant” and “lyrical” Young Chinese pianist Li of Cleveland Classical won first prize at the 2021 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, winning the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Award and the Tri-I Noon Recitals Award. He has won top prizes at numerous national and international competitions, including the 1st Antonio Mormone International Prize, the Sarasota Artist Series Piano Competition, the Brevard Music Festival, and the International Liszt Piano Competition for Young Pianists. Was a finalist at the Montreal International Music Competition.
Lee has performed with many major orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Brevard Festival Orchestra, La Scala Orchestra, NWD Philharmonic Orchestra, and has worked with such notable conductors as Lina Gonzalez Granados and Shang Chan. I have performed with someone. Eric Jacobsen and Jonathon Hayward. She has performed at the Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Pepperdine University in Malibu, the Evergreen Museum and Library in Baltimore, the Sunday Musical in New Jersey, the Southeastern Piano Festival and the Honest Brook Music Festival. I have given recitals.
Internationally, he has given recitals at the Sala Verdi in Milan, the Hammerklavia International Piano Festival in Barcelona, the Bologna Conservatory, the Alighieri Theater in Ravenna, the Fazioli Pianoforti in Sacile and the C. Bechstein Series at the Konzerthaus in Berlin.She also appeared in WQXR “Aine Klein Birthday Music” To celebrate Mozart’s 266th birthday, Green Space in New York City will host a free all-Mozart live streaming concert.
As an avid chamber musician, Lee has performed at prestigious festivals around the world, including the Verbier Festival Academy, the ClassicheFORME International Chamber Music Festival in Lecce, the Steen’s Institute in Ravinia, the La Jolla Music Society, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. increase. Artist Series Her Concert in Sarasota and the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival.
Li began piano lessons in China at the age of five and was a student in the primary department of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She then moved to Philadelphia in 2012, when she was 14, to study with Jonathan Hebis at the Curtis Institute of Music. and Seymour Lipkin. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree from Curtis Her Institute in 2019, she completed her Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School in New York under the guidance of Robert Her Macdonald and received her Diploma of Artist at the Juilliard School in her program. I continue my research on McDonald’s.
The Southwest Florida Symphony’s Masterworks series is sponsored by Uhler & Vertich Financial Planners and the LAT Foundation.
To purchase tickets or learn more, visit swflso.org/tickets/.
