【新唐人北京时间2019年04月10日讯】Renaissance Duo 文艺复兴双钢琴由两位台湾旅美新生代音乐家：钢琴家/作曲家杨岚茵博士 (Lan-In Winnie Yang) 和钢琴演奏家陈孜怡 (Tzu-yi Zoe Chen) 携手创立。她们拥有对钢琴重奏曲目的共同热情，音乐上的深层理解，长年的友谊加上对彼此的认同肯定。岚茵和孜怡在音乐的领域间，是著名的室内乐及独奏钢琴家, 彼此对音乐的诠释保持高度尊重，并结合两人内在热情能量的加乘，追求双钢琴演奏艺术境界更上层楼，实现在音乐表演艺术上的共同理念。
两人为了这场卡内基首场音乐会，准备了一套无论在视觉或听觉上，都相当精彩有趣且与众不同的曲目。经典的布拉姆斯“F 小调双钢琴奏鸣曲”、向莫札特致敬的布索尼改编版“复协奏曲”、美国爵士的波尔肯“伊甸乐园”、卢托斯拉瓦夫斯基最有名的现代作品“帕格尼尼变奏曲”，以及杨岚茵博士特别为这次音乐会所创作的“台湾素描”。
《创作曲：台湾素描 Sketches of Taiwan》 *世界首演
杨岚茵于 2014 年，受陈郁秀董事长 (台湾公共广播电视集团董事长/华视董事长/文建会主委) 委托，为白鹭鸶文教基金会创会二十周年音乐会，创作了“钢琴协奏曲 Piano Concerto”，并由台湾国家交响乐团首演。这首“台湾素描”是杨岚茵根据她的 “钢琴协奏曲第三乐章”，改编成双钢琴的版本，重新赋予了这个作品新的生命。透过双钢琴本身丰富的音色变化、宽广的音域和音量，加上两位钢琴家精湛的技巧及表现力，充分地展现出两台钢琴如何巧妙地相互结合与抗衡，进而呈现出整体的丰富层次感。
杨岚茵用欢乐的音符与轻快的节奏，清晰地描绘出一幅幅动人的景象 : 车水马龙的街道、忙碌热闹的生活、欢乐的节庆活动、繁华喧闹的夜市景象、人民的亲切与活力，但曲子中段优美柔和带 点感伤的旋律，深深的刻画出她对家乡温暖的回忆及美丽宝岛的田园风景，并表达出人民对未来祈求平安幸福的希望。
两位钢琴家简介
陈孜怡 – 钢琴演奏家 Tzu-yi Zoe Chen
陈孜怡生长于台湾台北市，自幼展露音乐禀赋。十三岁赴俄国圣彼得堡，参加柴可夫斯基国际青 少年钢琴大赛，获“最佳诠释奖”，十七岁至法国国立巴黎高等音乐学院深造获硕士学位，后至 德国国立卡厄斯鲁尔(Karlsruhe) 获音乐硕士与最高演奏家双学位，转赴美国先在乔治亚州Columbus 州立大学的 Schwob 音乐学院担任助教暨研究生，三年后至华府(Washington D.C.)，执教于列文(Levine)音乐学校，并经常接受各界邀约，飞赴世界各大城市演奏，为一专业钢琴演奏家。演奏足迹遍及美国、加拿大、法国、德国、意大利、俄罗斯、西班牙、奥地利、香港、新加坡、日本、匈牙利、罗马尼亚、哥伦比亚、巴拉圭等国，亦曾在台湾总统府介寿馆与台湾国家音乐厅等处演出。 孜怡历年得奖纪录辉煌，包括 2015 巴尔地摩国际李斯特钢琴协会钢琴大赛第 二奖及获李斯特及巴尔托克作品最佳诠释奖，2014 亚特兰大莫札特钢琴协会大赛首奖、2013 乔治亚州教师协会钢琴大赛研究生组首奖、2012 年亚特兰大爱乐协会音乐奖学金比赛研究生组首奖、2009 年德国第九届 Darmstadt 国际萧邦大赛第四奖、2007 年台湾交响乐团(NTSO)钢琴协奏曲大赛冠军、第二届欧盟室内乐比赛“最佳艺术媒体文化奖”、意大利 Mauro Paolo Monopoli 第四届国际钢琴大赛首奖、美国 Gina Bachauer 国际钢琴大赛青少年组、德国第六届爱特林根国际青少年钢琴大赛、台北第一届华信爱乐古典菁英奖得主等。2014 年，她在纽约卡内基音乐厅发表独奏会后，纽约乐评家 Frank Daykin 即为文赞美道：“她的演奏不仅展现出众人期待的专业技巧，更显露出优美的音质、完美的投入、深厚的情感及对风格的充分理解与诠释。” 孜怡同时是纽约新亚室内乐协会之一员，与其他音乐家们一起在美东诸多场合演出，并录制 CD，藉以飨宴乐友。
杨岚茵 － 钢琴家/作曲家 Lan-In Winnie Yang 为著名旅美音乐双博士。现为纽约“MuseConnect 跨乐”音乐协会的共同创办人、理事、及音乐总监。先后毕业于美国俄亥俄州奥柏林音乐学院、纽约曼哈顿音乐学院、纽约州立大学石溪分校， 并获颁纽约州立大学最高荣誉奖取得钢琴演奏及理论作曲双博士学位、钢琴与理论作曲双硕士学位、学士学位、及钢琴职业演奏家文凭。在台美两地获得多项音乐奖项，被美国音乐协会受邀成为荣誉会员，并曾受邀至荷兰皇宫演出。除了活耀于纽约地区的演出之外，曾受邀参加过许多国际音乐节，并于旧金山、华盛顿特区、东京、荷兰、台北、高雄多次举办音乐创作发表会、钢琴独奏会及室内乐音乐会。曾获 Stony Brook 协奏曲比赛优胜，并与 Stony Brook 交响乐团合作拉赫曼尼诺夫第二号钢琴协奏曲。
近期演出、委托创作、及合作的乐团及音乐家包括: [钢琴协奏曲 – Piano Concerto] : 受台湾白鹭鸶文教基金会委托创作，由简文彬指挥、钢琴家卢佳慧，与台湾国家交响乐团于国家音乐厅首演；
[小提琴与钢琴奏鸣曲 – Sonata for Violin and Piano] : 由得过九座葛莱美奖的美国爱默森弦乐四重奏小提琴家 Philip Setzer，和美国著名钢琴家 Gilbert Kalish 委托创作，并于于纽约及华盛顿特区Smithsonian 首演，杨博士本人也受邀与台湾知名小提琴家简名彦合作此曲；[给二胡及弦乐的幻想曲 – Fantasy for Erhu and Strings] : 受中提琴家林维洋邀请创作，曾与纽约古典音乐家乐团、Amphion 弦乐四重奏演出；[钢琴三重奏 – Piano Trio] : 受纽约台湾同乡会委托创作；[小提琴协奏曲 – Transfiguration] : 受纽约 North/South Consonance 乐团委托创作，由指挥 Max Lifchitz 及加拿大裔小提琴家 Claudia Schaer 首演；[时间旅程- Voyage of Time, 给缅甸传统长笛,大提琴,与钢琴的三重奏] : 受 2017 缅甸音乐节委托创作; [给钢琴的星座组曲 – Suite Astrologique for Piano] : 在纽约卡内基音乐厅 Distinguished Concerts International New York 音乐季陈孜怡独奏会发表。原创音乐 [舞梦 Dancing Dream] 获得 2012 年美东华语电影节的 [最佳音乐短片奖] 。2019 年一月，刚发行新的创作专辑 [永恒的魅力] : 受北京音乐唱片制作人叶云川邀请，跨界古典、爵士、流行，用古典钢琴五重奏的编制，重新创作改编台湾十三首经典歌曲，由瑞鸣音乐唱片发行， 与纽约卡内基音乐厅录音大师 Leszek Wo jcik 合作，并获台湾音响大师/音响论坛杂志创办人/总编辑 : 刘汉盛老师的强力乐评推荐。
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THE ART OF TRANSCRIPTION:
Renaissance Piano Duo, Tzu-Yi Chen and Winnie Yang, Perform Works by Busoni, Brahms, Bolcom, Lutosławski and the World Premiere of Yang’s Sketches Of Taiwanin a Concert Dedicated to Masters of Transcription
FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 8 PM WEILL RECITAL HALL AT CARNEGIE HALL
New York, NY (March tbd, 2019) – DCINY presents the Weill Recital Hall debut of Renaissance Piano Duo, pianists Winnie Yang and Tzu-Yi Chen, who will perform a specially selected classical repertoire that amplifies the art of transcription with works by Busoni, Brahms, Bolcom, Lutosławski, and Yang. The concert takes place on Friday, April 12, 8 PM at Weill Recital Hall at
Carnegie Hall. Tickets are $50. For tickets and information, visit DCINY’s website.
According to the duo, “The art of transcription is a universal thread woven through the tapestry of our musical traditions. So ubiquitous is this art form that it spans the gamut of history’s greatest composers. It is with this woven thread and these gathered gems that we have chosen our programming for our Carnegie Hall debut.”
The evening will feature Busoni’s Duettino concertante, Brahms’ Sonata for Two Pianos in F Minor,
Op. 34b, William Bolcom’s The Garden of Eden, and Lutosławski’s Variations on a Theme by
Paganini, and Yang’s Sketches of Taiwan, a world premiere.
Busoni’s Duettino Concertanteis based on the finale of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in F Major, K. 459, and is a demonstration to Busoni’s virtuosity in transcription and his ability to create a dynamic interplay of figurations between two performers.
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Brahms’ Sonata for Two Pianos in F-Minoris a testament of the composer’s own connection to the art of transcription. Brahms often reworked, rearranged, and transcribed his own compositions transforming them into works new and wondrous. This sonata exhibits Brahms’ methodical perfectionism, achieving between two keyboards the quintet’s symphonic breadth.
Bolcom wrote The Garden of Eden Suite for solo pianoin 1974 and later adapted the piece for two pianos. The four rags that comprise the suite tell the story of the Biblical fall from grace through the ragtime idiom.
Lutosławski’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini is a transcription of Paganini’s Twelve
Transcriptionson a theme, which was Paganini’s transcription of his own Caprice No. 24 in A minor for solo violin.
Sketches of Taiwan is a two-piano transcription of the Finale of Yang’s Piano Concerto. In this work, Yang not only evokes imagery of joyful, festive scenes of Taiwan such as holiday celebrations, night markets, and lively street activity, but also paints a nostalgic backdrop to the expression of tenderness towards her distant homeland, Taiwan.
WINNIE YANG
Dr. Lan-In Winnie Yang holds two Doctorate degrees (D.M.A. Piano/ Ph.D. Composition), two Master’s degrees (M.M. Piano/ M.A. Composition), and a Bachelor’s degree in Piano/Composition. A graduate from Stony Brook University, Manhattan School of Music, and Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Dr. Yang is the co-founder and the music director of MuseConnect. Yang won the 2008 Stony Brook Concerto Competition and performed with the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra. Her performance activities and compositions have taken her internationally including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Smithsonian in Washington D.C., National Concert Hall in Taiwan, Dutch Royal Palace Het Loo, Japan TV Asahi Corp. Music Hall in Tokyo, among other venues. Her compositions have been commissioned/premiered by Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, Grammy Award-winning violinist Philip Setzer, American pianist Gilbert Kalish, New York Classical Players, North/South Consonance, Amphion String Quartet, Egret Cultural and Educational Foundation, and the Myanmar Music Festival. Yang’s original music “Dancing Dream” won the “Best Music Video Award” in the 2012 Mid-Atlantic Chinese Film Festival.
TZU-YI CHEN
An international award-winning performer and educator, Tzu-yi holds degrees from the Paris Conservatory and the Karlsruhe University of Music. Chen co-founded the International Friendship Ministries’ Arts Academy in Columbus, Georgia, while studying at Columbus State University’s Schwob School of Music. In 2017, Chen performed for the 60th anniversary of the Taiwan-Paraguay diplomatic relations in the Central Bank in Asunción, and was presented by Taiwan’s National Concert Hall’s Rising Star chamber music concert series. Recent US tours have taken her to nine US states, Puerto Rico, and her home base in Washington, D.C. where she
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teaches at the Levine School of Music, serves as a member of the music staff at the Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, and is on the New Asia Chamber Music Society’s Artist Roster. Her first chamber music album produced by NACMS was released in November 2018.
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LISTINGS INFORMATION
Renaissance Piano Duo
Friday, April 12, 2019, 8 PM,
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Tickets are $50
DCINY presents the Weill Recital Hall debut of Renaissance Duo. Pianists Winnie Yang and Tzu-Yi Chen perform specially selected classical repertoire meant to exemplify the duo’s doubling of power and amplification of artistry.
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