117. Yang (Jack) Gao, piano

Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @2pm | A Virtual Concert

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Salon Concerts at Klavierhaus
Jed Distler, artistic director

The Walter W. Naumburg Foundation
Debra Kinzler, executive director

present

A Virtual Concert

Yang (Jack) Gao, piano
2023 Naumburg Piano Award

Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @2pm

Recorded February 1st, 2024 at Klavierhaus
790 11th Avenue
New York, NY 10019

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Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Transcendental Etudes, S.139, No. 1, “Prelude”

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op.26
i. Andante con variazioni
ii. Scherzo: Allegro molto
iii. Maestoso andante: Marcia funebre sulla morte d’un eroe
iv. Allegro

Liszt
Transcendental Etudes, S.139, No. 11, 12, 6

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Gaspard de la Nuit
i. Ondine
ii. Le gibet
iii. Scarbo

Liszt
Transcendental Etudes, S.139, No. 5, “Feux Follets”

Jack (Yang) Gao (b. 2003)
Music in Different Shapes
i. ■ ii. ▲ iii. ●

Franz Liszt
Transcendental Etudes, S.139, No. 4, “Mazeppa”

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Yang (Jack) Gao, winner of the 2023 Naumburg International Piano Competition (held this past October) is 20 years old and hails from China. He began playing the piano at age four and studying composition at age nine. In 2016, he entered Middle School affiliated to the China Conservatory of Music to study piano with Tianhong Tan, and composition with Xin Xie. Additional studies were with Huiqiao Bao, Xu Fei, and Elmar Gasanov. Currently a sophomore at The Julliard School he studies with Jerome Lowenthal. Among his awards include at Juilliard: the Gina Bachauer Piano Competition and winner of the concerto competition. His recent performances include playing John Corigliano’s Piano Concerto with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Simone Young and performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with En Shao and the Orchestra Academy of China Conservatory of Music.