S1 : July 18 - July 27, 2020
S2 : July 29 - August 7, 2020
S3 : August 9 - August 18, 2020
_ LANGUAGES
English, Taiwanese
Praised
by RBB (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg) Kulturradio: "New Discovery! A very
talented collaborative pianist!"
Han-Wen's
collaboration with cellist Tim Oberbillig on Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 4 was
praised by the Heute in der Konzer Zeitung as a “Fantastic
interpretation.” Her solo, Liszt's "Malédiction" with
the Trierer Philharmonie was described as "diabolically
brilliant"!
Han-Wen, a native of Taichung, Taiwan. She earned a
Bachelor of Music in piano performance from the Tunghai University (Taiwan),
where she graduated with the highest honors with Dr. Juanelva Rose and Dr. Thomas Linde; a Master of Music
degree in Collaborative Piano with Dr. Cameron Stowe, Dr. Pei-Shan Lee and
Prof. Jonathan Feldman from New England Conservatory; and a Konzertexamen (equal as doctor
program in Taiwan) at the HMT Leipzig with professor Gudrun
Franke in piano chamber music, and minor in solo piano with professor
Gerald Fauth. She has took masterclasses by Robert Levin, Graham
Johnson, Brigitte Engerer, Volker Banfield, Margo Garrett, Warren Jones, Martin
Katz, Rita Sloan and so on.
As an active pianist, she has performed throughout the
U.S., Taiwan, Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Spain, England,
France Switzerland and Sweden. She has been heard on National Public
Radio’s Performance Today, America’s Music Festivals, Chicago Radio,
Deutschlandfunk and Medici.tv. As a soloist, she has performed
with Trierer Philharmonie.
Han-Wen was twice YAMAHA foundation of Taiwan
fellowship recipient in 2006, earned scholarships at the Aspen Music Festival
from 2010-11. She took part in SongFest as one of the Marc and Eva Stern
Fellows in 2010, and was awarded the 2013 Collaborative Piano Fellowship from
Music Academy of the West in the U.S. She is a national and
international competition prizewinning pianist, 1 prize in the Taichung City's
Piano Competition, 1 prize in the Seidof International Piano Competition and 1
prize in the Vienna International Piano Competition. In 2014 she won 1 prize in
the Clara Schumann Duo Competition in Leipzig with violist Seungwon Lee and
soprano Chueh-Yu Lai. Among 103 groups, she won 1st prize with cellist
Mon-Puo Lee in the form of a duo in the 19th Kiejstut Bacewicz
International Chamber Music Competition in Poland in 2016, the same year in
September, she was awarded the Best Accompanist Prize from the George Enescu
Festival Competition in Bucharest, Romania.
Ms. Yu had served as staff pianist at the New England
Conservatory, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), the 2012 Foulger
International Music Festival, as faculty pianist in the Prague Summer Nights
Festival in 2015, staff pianist of the Euro Music Festival and Academy and the
David Geringas Master Class from Blackmore International Music Academy in 2016,
2017.
From
2010-2013, she worked as a studio pianist for Grammy Award winner Kim
Kashkashian's studio at NEC. She had also worked in studios of Paul Biss,
James Buswell, Lucy Chapman, Miriam Fried, Nicholas Kitchen, Malcolm Lowe,
Donald Weilerstein, Martha Strongin Katz, Dimitri Murrath, Roger Tapping,
Marcus Thompson, Natasha Brofsky, Paul Katz, Yeesun Kim, Laurence Lesser, Paula
Robison, William Cotten, D'Anna Fortunato, Carole Haber, Karen Holvik, Michael
Meraw, Lisa Saffer and Bradley Williams from 2009-2013. Since 2013, she has
been working with students of Tabea Zimmermann, Walter Küssner, Nora Chastain,
Frans Helmerson, Jens Peter Maintz and so on in Berlin or Leipzig. She has
worked on Elgar's Cello Concerto with cellist Kian Soltani for maestro Daniel
Baremboim in 2017. Her past and current colleagues including
International Tchaikovsky Competition, ARD competition prize winners, Queen
Elisabeth Competition participators, Metropolitan Opera singer, Gewandhaus
Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic members.
As
a fast learner, she constantly serves for emergency concert. Back to 2012, the
1st movement of John
Adams's Violin Concerto included more than 20 pages, she learned in 2 days
and performed with violinist Gloria Ferry-Brennan in the Harris Concert
Hall in the Aspen Music Festival.