Presenter: Pianists Oliver Jia and Jiyuan Grace Zhang
Date: Saturday, March 30, 2019
Time: 12:30 – 2 pm
Location: Britton Recital Hall, E.V. Moore Building, 1100 Baits Dr., University of Michigan School of Music, Theater & Dance

Program:

Man Jiang Hong – Prelude (2002), composed by Chu Wang-Hua – Jiyuan Grace Zhang
Jasmine Flower Fantasia (2003), composed by Chu Wang-Hua – Jiyuan Grace Zhang
Liu Tianhua Impromptus (1998), composed by Cui Shi Guang – Oliver Jia
Longing for my love (1991), composed by Dan Zhao-Yi – Oliver Jia
Pi Huang (1995), composed by Zhang Zhao – Jiyuan Grace Zhang
(Intermission)
Yellow River Concerto, composed by Xian Xianghai – Jiyuan Grace Zhang & Oliver Jia

Featuring pianists:

Described as an artist with “incomparable color and beauty of sound” (Jan Popis, Chopin Gazeta: 2005), Chinese-Swedish pianist Oliver Jia studied music at Yale University, Juilliard School and the University of Michigan. He has performed all over the world and actively appears in concerts all over the world. With a repertoire of dozens of concerti in addition to over two hundred solo and chamber works, Dr. Jia made his official debut at Isaac Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall under the baton of Maestro James DePreist, performing Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto no. 5. Dr. Jia now teaches piano music at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley.

An alumna of the U-M School of Music Theater & Dance, Jiyuan Grace Zhang has performed extensively in the U.S., Europe, and China, and received numerous prestigious awards, including the MTNA Piano Competition, National Professional Piano Competition (Beijing), Asia-Pacific International Chopin Competition, Lennox International Concerto Competition, International Steinway Youth Piano Competition, Concerto competitions at Interlochen Arts Academy and University of Michigan. A recently recognized as a James B. Angell Scholar, she currently studies music at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University.