Spring 2008 Music Department

Calendar of Events

May 20, 7 PM IAJE Jazz Combo Nite+ May 21, 7 PM CWU Percussion Ensemble Concert* May 22, 7 PM Horn Studio Recital+ May 23, 7 PM IAJE Jazz Combo Nite+ May 24, 2 PM James D. Orr, Senior Saxophone Recital+ May 25, 6 PM Michael Connolly and Jared Ice, Joint Voice Recital* May 26, 6 PM Stuart McAlister, Horn Recital+ May 27, 7 PM CWU Symphonic Band Concert* May 28, 7 PM String Studio Recital+ May 29, 7 PM CWU Wind Ensemble Concert* May 30, 7 PM Jazz Nite II* May 31, 2 PM Annual Brass Blowout* May 31, 5 PM Toby Weston, Junior Cello Recital May 31, 7 PM CWU Guitar Ensemble Cpmcert+ June 1, 1 PM Steven Cobb and Michael Linehan, Joint Recital* June 1, 2 PM Kittitas Valley Youth Orchestra* June 1, 4 PM Musica Antiqua+ June 1, 7 PM Kelsey French, Junior Horn Recital+ June 2, 6:30 PM Prep Strings Concert* June 2, 7 PM Weber Clarinet Recital June 6, 7 PM Prep Choir Concert* July 11, 7 PM Allison Campbell Voice Recital + *Concert Hall + Recital Hall

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Central Washington University Department of Music

Presents:

Guest Artist Regina Yeh

“Favorites of the East and West”

Music Building Concert Hall Monday, May 19, 2008

7:00 PM

Biography: As one of the most promising talents of her generation of young American pianists, Taiwanese-born

Regina Yeh has delighted audiences with her performances throughout the United States and abroad,

including France, the UK, Slovak Republic, and on tour in her native Taiwan. She has performed at

major venues throughout the United States, including Benaroya Hall in Seattle and New Mexico’s

Popejoy Hall. Highlights of her performances also include solo appearances at the Dame Myra Hess

Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, which was broadcasted on WFMT radio and channel 25

television, and with the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jersey Semkov. Her

performances have also appeared on KING radio in Seattle and televised in the Slovak Republic and

on North American Chinese Television. In the 2007-2008 season, amongst concerts and

masterclasses throughout the Northwest and across the US, Ms. Yeh will be making her Weill Hall

Carnegie Hall Debut as a winner of the Special Presentation Series of Artist International Auditions

performing a program representative of her diverse personal heritage, with works ranging from

composers such as Schumann and Chopin, to Chinese Folk Tune transcriptions, to works by

Taiwanese composer Ma Shui-Long and Chinese American composer, Zhou Long. Immediately

after, she will also make her Seoul, Korea debut as featured concerto soloist with the Korea Mozart

Orchestra.

Ms. Yeh has received numerous awards and accolades for her exceptional artistry and compelling

performances, She has earned recognition in many national and international competitions,

including the Newport International Piano Competition, Chopin Foundation of the United States

National Competition, the Olga Koussevitsky Competition, the Virgina Waring International Piano

Competition, the Bergen Philharmonic Competition, the National Foundation for the Advancement

in the Arts Competition, the National Federation of Music Club’s Young Artist Competition, and the

Chinese-American Hennessey Cognac Music Competition. She has won first prizes at the Pacific

International Piano Competition, the National Federation of Music Club’s Biennial Student Awards

Competition, and was the grand prize winner of the Allegro Music foundation/BAJ Classics

competitions in New York. She was also the recipient of scholarships from the Chopin Foundation

of the United States.

An active collaborative artist, Ms. Yeh has appeared at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival,

performed as a guest artist with the Adirondack Ensemble in New York, and served as accompanist

of the Harlem Boys’ Choir. Her many chamber performances included unusual programming such

as concerts featuring music for piano six hands at the Seattle Asian Art Museum. An avid performer

and promoter of new music, Ms. Yeh is also the founder of the East-West Piano Arts Series at the

University of Washington, which highlights the piano-related music of composers of Asian and Asian

American descent and at the same time, presents diverse, fusion-style programming with composers

ranging from Chen Yi and Wang Jian Zhong, to Faure and Chopin performed by artists from both

the Eastern and Western cultures, effectly building audiences and bridging communities through

music. The 2006-07 season included, among other notable new works, the American Premiere of the

new piano quintet, “La Foce” by renowned Japanese American composer, Paul Chihara. In 2007-

2008, her interest in the EastWest fusion theme will be expanding into a new non-profit and concert

series in Seattle, sponsored by the National Association of Asian American Professionals, Seattle,

Collaborative Artists EastWest, for which she is the artistic director. This series presents concerts of a

wide variety of musicians and workshops for youth and a scholarship competition in 2008-2009.

Ms. Yeh was accepted at age thirteen as a pupil of the renowned Hungarian pianist and pedagogue,

Bela Siki, with whom she eventually completed her Bachelor of Music degree at the University of

Washington, graduating with a Magna Cum Laude distinction. She then attended the Manhattan

School of Music in New York City, where she received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2003.

Her teachers included the legendary pianist Byron Janis as well as the late Constance Keene, and

Dr. Marc Silvermann. She has also worked privately with Ruth Laredo, Jacques Lagarde of L’ecole

Normale a Alfred Cortot de Paris and Arnaldo Cohen at Indiana University. While at the

prestigious Manhattan School of Music, she was consistently recognized for her excellence as one of

its finest young pianists. She was the winner of the Graduation Concerto Competition, a winner in

the Chopin Competition, the Miezynsluw Munz Piano Competition, and was awarded the Cohn

award for excellence in chamber music.

A devoted Artist-Teacher, Ms. Yeh has taught masterclasses at colleges and universities across the

United States. She has also taught at the Manhattan School of Music and the Brearley School in

New York City. She is presently on the keyboard faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle

since 2001, where she is frequently featured as a soloist and chamber musician. In demand as an

adjudicator, Ms. Yeh has served as a jury member for numerous competitions throughout the United

States. She is the current co-vice-president for the Music Teachers’ National Association, Seattle

Chapter, in which position, she has brought in artists to SMTA programming of the highest

international and national stature.

Dr. Yeh has been recently named the Head of Piano Studies at Pacific Lutheran University in

Tacoma, Washington.

Program

"Favorites of the East and West" Sonata No. 2 in g minor, with Original Finale Robert Schumann So rasch wie moglich Andantino Scherzo Presto Passionato A Sketch of the Rainy Harbor Ma Shui-Long Rain Harbor Views In Rainy Nights The Girl Who Pick Seashells At The Temple Gate

Intermission Etude in G sharp minor op. 25 no. 6 Frederic Chopin Transcendental Etudes, Feux Follet Franz Liszt Two Traditional Chinese Folksongs: "Faraway Place" Chu Wanghua "Clouds Chasing the Moon" Wang JianZhong Barcarolle, Op. 60 Frederic Chopin “Wu Kui” for Solo Piano Zhou Long