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Visiting Artist Series: Pianist Kwan Yi
Venue: Squires Recital Salon, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022
Time: 8:00 - 9:30 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
General Public: $15.00 Seniors: $12.00 VT Students & Youth (Ages 3-18): $10.00

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Description:
The Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts continues their Visiting Artist Series featuring pianist Kwan Yi on Thursday, February 17, 2022 inside the Squires Recital Salon on the campus of Virginia Tech.

Pianist Kwan Yi will perform a recital of works by Beethoven and Chopin.

Yi has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kimmel Center, Kennedy Center, Chicago Symphony Center, Mann Performing Arts Center, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Library of Congress, Metropolitan and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museums, Großer Sendesaal des Hessischen Rundfunks, Auditorium du Louvre, Suntory Hall, and Seoul Arts Center.

Yi has appeared as a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, and the Brevard Festival Orchestra under the batons of Hans Graf, Julian Kuerti, and Mikhail Tartanikov. As a recitalist and masterclass instructor, he has completed residencies at the BGSU College of Musical Arts, MSU College of Music, and the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Miriam Fried, and Roberto Diaz on national tours and was invited to perform at the Kronberg, Ravinia, Trondheim, and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern festivals as well as Carnegie Hall Presents, Curtis Presents, CIM Mixon Hall Masters, and Peoples’ Symphony Concert series. He has recorded for Hänssler and FHR labels with violinist Itamar Zorman.

Tickets are $15.00 for the general public, $12.00 for seniors and $10.00 for students.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://tickets.artscenter.vt.edu/online/seatSelect.asp?createBO::WSmap=1&BOparam::WSmap::loadBestAvailable::performance_ids=05502BA5-7E21-48B5-87C4-1DBB335870C2.

For the safety of our audiences and performers, masks are currently required for attendance at all School of Performing Arts indoor events, regardless of vaccination status.

For more info visit here: https://www.performingarts.vt.edu/performances/2022/02/sopa-kwanhi.html or https://www.facebook.com/VTperformingarts or https://www.instagram.com/HokiesOnStage/.