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Brand Associates Music Series - Sheng-Ching Hsu & Xiao Chen

Afternoon Concert in the Recital Hall

2024-10-12 14:00:00 2024-10-12 15:30:00 America/Los_Angeles Brand Associates Music Series - Sheng-Ching Hsu & Xiao Chen Brand Library and Art Center -

Saturday, October 12
2:00pm - 3:30pm

Add to Calendar 2024-10-12 14:00:00 2024-10-12 15:30:00 America/Los_Angeles Brand Associates Music Series - Sheng-Ching Hsu & Xiao Chen Violinist Sheng-Ching Hsu and pianist Xiao Chen will be performing the program Her Voices: Music by Female Composers. Brand Library and Art Center -

Violinist Sheng-Ching Hsu and pianist Xiao Chen will be performing the program Her Voices: Music by Female Composers.

The Brand Associates Music Series features virtuosos from Southern California performing repertoire favorites and new music by living composers. All concerts will take place in the Brand Library Recital Hall. Admission is free and seating is limited. Sponsored by the Brand Associates.

Sheng-Ching Hsu - violin & Xiao Chen - piano

A native of Taiwan, Sheng-Ching Hsu is a member of Delirium Musicum, California Symphony and New West Symphony, and serves as guest principal 2nd violin of St. Matthew's Chamber Orchestra. She also serves as a faculty at CSULB and Colburn Community School of Performing Arts. A firm believer in the power of music, Hsu created “S-C Sidewalk Performance,” where she brought weekly live music to the street corners of West LA during the pandemic, and was featured on KTTV Fox 11 Los Angeles and EliteGen Magazine in Toronto, Canada. Her story was also made into a documentary by “Aria’s Lens” in China.

Award-winning pianist Dr. Xiao Chen is actively engaged as both a soloist and chamber musician throughout the US, China, and Europe. Dr. Chen is currently on faculty at Mount Saint Mary’s University, having served as Lecturer in Piano Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2019. She is the music director of Irvine Conservatory of Music, as well as the artistic director of Irvine Conservatory International Music Competition. Her articles about music and teaching have been published in the U.S. and China. She has also collaborated with Bard Conservatory US-China Music Institute and created a new piano program for young students in China.

Program - Her Voices: Music by Female Composers
Marjorie Merryman: 2020 Visions 
Kala Ramnath: Aalap and Tarana 
Clara Schumann: 3 Romances, op. 22 
Amy Beach: Romance op. 23
Florence Price: Fantasie No. 2 in F-sharp Minor
-Intermission-
Hung-Ping Chang: Selections from "Danse de Ballet en Solo", pour violon solo et piano 
Michiru Oshima: Memories 
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Episode

For information on the entire music series, visit BrandLibrary.org/Music-Series

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Ample free parking is available in Brand Park. An accessible entrance and accessible parking for cars with a disabled parking placard or license plate is located on the East side of Brand Library.

For additional information about this event, please contact Brand Library & Art Center at (818) 548-2051 or send us an email at Info@BrandLibrary.org.

AGE GROUP: | Teens | Family | All Ages | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Performance  | Music |

TAGS: | Performance | Music | Concert | Brand Program | Brand Library | Brand Associates |

Brand Library and Art Center

Phone: 818-548-2051

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Mon, Oct 14 Closed
Tue, Oct 15 11:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Oct 16 11:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, Oct 17 11:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Oct 18 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sat, Oct 19 10:00AM to 5:00PM
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