Pianist Cheng-Zong Yin to close the Steinway Society’s
2003-2004 concert series held at Le Petit Trianon Theater in San Jose

The Steinway Society The Bay Area will feature pianist Cheng-Zong Yin in the last concert of the 2003-2004 season. The concert will be held at Le Petit Trianon Theater in downtown San Jose on Sunday, April 18 at 7:00 P. M. General admission tickets are $35, $30 for Seniors 65 and over, and $25 for full time students.

The Steinway Society is a volunteer based non-profit organization whose purpose is ?To promote excellence in piano performance and music education in the Bat Area. The efforts of a highly committed group of volunteers has placed the Steinway Society among the most prestigious and cherished musical organizations of the Bay Area.

A native of China, Mr.Yin studied at the Shanghai and at the Beijing Conservatories in China, as well as at the Leningrad Conservatory in Russia. He was the Gold Medalist of the World Youth Peace and Friendship Festival held in Vienna in 1959, and he was the second prize winner of 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition. Mr. Yin has performed extensively throughout the world as soloist and with orchestras such as the Philadelphia Symphony under Eugene Ormandy, the Vienna Philarmonic under Claudio Abbado, the Moscow Philarmonic conducted by Kiril Kondrashin, and the St. Petesburg Philarmonic under Sir Malcolm Sargent.

Mr Yin is not only a virtuoso interpreter of Western masters, he is also a composer of piano pieces reflecting the influence of his Chinese heritage. His recording of the ?Yellow River Concerto,? for which he composed the piano part, won him a Gold Record Award.
Mr Yin will perform works by Galuppi, Beethoven, and Schubert.

"One rarely hears a piano played so lovingly, expressively, and with such a sensitivity to the sheer physical beauty of sound."—THE NEW YORK TIMES

Le Petit Trianon Theater, www.trianontheater.com, is located in downtown San Jose at 72 North 5th Street. Tickets are priced at $25 General, $20 for Seniors 65 and over, and $15 for full time students. For tickets and information please call 408-246-4200 or contact the Steinway Society at www.steinwaythebayarea.com.