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2009-2010 Piano Series


Peng Peng


Sun., Sept. 13 - 3pm
Le Petit Trianon Theatre

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This 16-year-old Julliard student is an up and coming star on the classical music scene. He has already performed with top symphony orchestras to great acclaim, including San Francisco Symphony performing the Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
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Haochen Zhang

Van Cliburn International
Piano Competition Winner


Sun., Oct. 11 - 7pm
McAfee Center

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Every four years, our audiences have a unique opportunity to be the first to hear one of the top medalist winners of this prestigious competition.
The youngest participant in the 2009 Cliburn Competition, Haochen Zhang gave his debut recital at the Shanghai Music Hall at the age of five, performing all of Bach’s two-part inventions, as well as sonatas by Haydn and Mozart. He performed with orchestra at age six, and moved to the United States at fifteen to attend the Curtis Institute of Music.
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Christina and Michelle Naughton

Sat., Nov. 14 - 7:30pm
Le Petit Trianon Theatre

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Christina and Michelle Naughton are twin sisters who began their piano studies at the age of four. In the fall of 2007, they began their studies as full merit-based scholarship students at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where Christina holds the Hirsig Fellowship and Michelle holds the Bernard M. Guth Fellowship. They have performed extensively as soloists, with orchestra, and in piano duo.
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Sandra Wright Shen

Sat., Dec. 5 - 7:30pm
Le Petit Trianon Theatre

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Sandra Shen is a Bay Area resident, performing artist and beloved educator. She is treasured by the Bay Area classical music lovers. We anticipate the theatre will once again be spilling out with fans anxiously waiting to hear her performance.
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Kevin Kenner

Sat., March 20, 2010 - 7:30pm
Le Petit Trianon Theatre

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Back for the third time on the Steinway Society
Series, Kevin Kenner is “one of the fi nest American pianists to come along in years” (Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune). Our audiences couldn’t agree more. He is widely acclaimed by critics around the world as one of the greatest interpreters of Chopin.
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Ning An

Sat., May. 22, 2010 - 7:30pm
McAfee Center

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Mr. An was the First Prize winner of both the inaugural 2006 Tivoli International and 2003 William Kapell Piano Competitions. His Carnegie hall debut was highly praised in the New York Concert Review for “…sculpted clarity of his playing and his ability to maintain balance and tension in large-scale dramatic forms.” Read more >>