FaceArt Music InterNations
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"FaceArt is exactly what young talented Chinese students need"
Dr. Solomon Mikowsky
Piano professor at Manhattan School of Music, NY
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Chair of Piano Department at NYU
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FaceArt is a private international music and cultural exchange organization. FaceArt faculty consists of world-renown musicians, pianists and pedagogues teaching one on one lessons, giving lectures, and discovering talented music students, in order to recommend them into the best music conservatories in the world. FaceArt is actively supported by the faculty members of the best music universities in the world, such as Juilliard School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, NYU, Basil Music Conservatory, Cracow Music Academy and many others.FaceArt is a home to many music competitions, lecture recitals, art exhibitions and is also a meeting point of artists living in Shanghai.
FaceArt Music InterNations proudly introduces MUSIC WISDOM PROJECT
Conducted and designed by JEAN-OLIVIER BEGIN - Emmy Award Jazz and Film Composer, Improviser, Trombonist
March 23rd – April 22nd
The Music Wisdom Project is a special group class designed exclusively for the FaceArt students to enhance their creativity, musical awareness, independence, confidence and team work. Project combines elements of improvisation, theory class, performance and design. Music Wisdom Project is not only addressed to all ages, but most importantly requires age and skills diversity so that participants can learn from each other and be more aware of their own individual strengths.
The Project will consist of eight group classes (two times a week) one hour each.
There must be at least 3 and no more than 6 students per class. The classes can take place 6 days a week, depending on the number of students participating. Packages of 4 classes (one class a week) are also available. In addition, individual composition lessons will be offered. Sign up starts on March 6th 2012 at FaceArt Music InterNations.
FaceArt Music InterNations proudly introduces DR. MARIAN SOBULA
president of PianoClassic Association, Artistic Director of Royal Cracow International Piano Festival, famous Pianist and Pedagogue
MAY 2nd - MAY 7th
Dr. Marian Sobula will visit FaceArt as a part of his China Tour. In search for young talents in order to help them develop their careers as pianists he will give lectures, master classes and piano recitals. More detailed information will be available soon.
Pianist Jenny Q. Chai in Solo Recital
Concert to be held April 19, 2012 at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall,
with premieres by Inhyun Kim, Marco Stroppa, & Ashley Fu-Tsun Wang.
New York, NY: Performing works by Inhyun Kim, Ashley Fu-Tsun Wang, Marco Stroppa, Kurtag, Messaien, Ligeti, Debussy, and Schumann, pianist Jenny Q. Chai makes her Carnegie Hall debut at Zankel Hall on Thursday, April 19 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $30 ($15 for students) and will be available beginning February 19th at www.carnegiehall.org, at the Carnegie Hall Box office at 57th street and 7th avenue in New York City (which is also the location of the venue), or by calling 212 247 7800. This concert, featuring two world premieres and one US premiere, is being presented by Ear to Mind (www.eartomind.com), a New York City based arts organization which strives to present innovative programs that allow the public to experience contemporary music in non-traditional contexts, as well as by producing publications that allow the public to gain intimate knowledge of the contemporary music field, simultaneously providing composers and performers with a platform for their work.
The Program includes:
- Inhyun Kim - Parallel Lines (World premiere)
- Ashley Fu-Tsun Wang - “Current”, a newly commissioned work from the Yvar
Mikhashoff Trust’s 2011 Pianist/Composer Commissioning Project (World premiere)
- Marco Stroppa - “Innige Cavatina” from Miniature Estrose (US premiere)
- Claude Debussy - Études No. 1 and 7
- György Ligeti - Études No. 1 and 2
- Olivier Messiaen - Cantéyodjayâ
- György Kurtág – “Quiet talk with the Devil” and “Les Adieux” from Jatekok
- Robert Schumann - Kreisleriana
