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Repertoire
Beethoven: Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Opus 12, No. 1
Beethoven: Sonata No. 7 in C Minor, Opus 30, No. 2
Franck: Sonata in A Major
Artists
Cho-Liang Lin was born in Taiwan. Upon hearing a neighbor’s violin studies, the 5-year-old boy wanted the same musical toy and got taken to his first violin lesson. At the age of twelve, he moved to Sydney to further his studies with Robert Pikler, a student of Jenő Hubay. After playing for Itzhak Perlman in a master class, the 13-year-old Lin decided that he must study with Mr. Perlman’s teacher, Dorothy DeLay. Two years later, Lin traveled alone to New York and auditioned for The Juilliard School and spent the next six years working with Ms. DeLay.
A concert career was launched in 1980 with Lin’s debut with the New York Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta. He has since performed as soloist with virtually every major orchestra in the world. His busy schedule on stage around the world continues to this day. His wide-ranging interests have also led him into diverse endeavors. At the age of 31, his alma mater, The Juilliard School, invited Lin to become faculty. In 2006, he was appointed professor at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He served as music director of La Jolla SummerFest for 18 years. Since 2012, he has been Artistic Director of The Beare's Premiere Music Festival (formerly the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival). Ever so keen about education, he created the Taipei Music Academy & Festival (TMAF) in 2019 for the purpose of providing the best educational setting to talented young musicians.
“What an amazing way to mark the 100th anniversary of The Rite of Spring. Stunning!” These words from the Toronto Star echoed glowing reviews across North America for Jon Kimura Parker’s CD, Rite, which includes world premiere recordings of his solo piano transcriptions of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Petrouchka. Parker’s most recent CD Fantasy has garnered similar praise from Classical Candor: “The reading is riveting. I can’t remember when this work so engrossed me. Parker scores with another favorite recording of the year.”
A veteran of the international concert stage, Jon Kimura Parker has performed as guest soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Wolfgang Sawallisch in Carnegie Hall, toured Europe with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Andre Previn, and shared the stage with Jessye Norman at Berlin’s Philharmonie. Conductors he has recently worked with include Teddy Abrams, Pablo Heras-Cassado, Claus Peter Flor, Hans Graf, Jeffrey Kahane, Carlos Kalmar, Peter Oundjian, Larry Rachleff, Xu Zhong and Pinchas Zukerman. A true Canadian ambassador of music, Mr. Parker has given command performances for Queen Elizabeth II, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Prime Ministers of Canada and Japan. He is an Officer of The Order of Canada, his country’s highest civilian honor.
