Fei-Fei (sponsored event)

Fei-Fei, Piano

Presented by School of Music, Arts for Ohio, College of Fine Arts, and OU Performing Arts Series

Her program will include:

Beethoven: Sonata In E-flat Major, op.31-no.3
Schumann: Kinderszenen
Debussy: Isle Joyeuse
INTERMISSION
Rachmaninoff: Moments Musicaux op.16

Praised for her “bountiful gifts and passionate immersion into the music she touches” ( The Plain Dealer ), pianist Fei-Fei is a winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition and a top finalist at the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. She continues to build a reputation for her poetic interpretations, charming audiences with her “passion, piquancy and tenderness” and “winning stage presence” ( Dallas Morning News ), both in the US and internationally, including her native China.

Fei-Fei’s 2019-2020 concert season will take her across the globe in concerto performances, recitals and chamber music collaborations alike. Highlights include performances with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic touring in Germany, a tour of Spain with the New York Youth Symphony, as well as concerto engagements with the Costa Rica National Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Symphony, Big Springs Symphony and Symphony in C.  This season also brings a new special project titled  The Inner Voices with violist Dana Kelley and clarinetist Yoonah Kim, featuring the music of Mozart, Schumann and Brahms.

Additional career highlights include performances with the Fort Worth Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Calgary Philharmonic, Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, Spokane Symphony, Corpus Christi Symphony, Austin Symphony, Denver Philharmonic, Anchorage Symphony, Youngstown Symphony, and the Juilliard Orchestra.  Internationally, she has performed with Canada’s Calgary Philharmonic, Germany’s Rostock and Baden-Baden philharmonic orchestras, and in China with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, China National, and Shenzhen Symphony orchestras.

Fei-Fei was showcased prominently as a Cliburn finalist in the documentary film,  Virtuosity , about the 2013 Cliburn Competition, which premiered on PBS in August 2015. She is currently based in New York City.

Free and Open to the Public

For more information,  contact  the  Ohio  University School of Music