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Degree Recital: Chi-Hui Yen, Piano

Saturday, April 13, 2013 | | Olin Hall Born in 1991 in Taipei, Taiwan, Chi-Hui Yen began playing the piano at the age of four. Her teachers included Rolf-Peter Wille and Ming-Hui Lin. Currently she is in her fifth year studying with Melvin Chen and Peter Serkin at The Bard College Conservatory of Music. She is also pursuing a B.A degree in Economics at Bard College. In 2002, as the youngest competitor that year, she won the first prize in the Taipei International Chopin Piano Competition. In the same year, she was awarded the first prize in the Mauron Paolo Monopli International Piano Competition. The following year, she made her solo debut at Taipei Zhongshan Hall after winning the Young Artists Concerto Competition in 2002.

In 2009, Yen won The Bard College Conservatory of Music's Annual Concerto Competition with her performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.1 and performed on two subscription concerts with American Symphony Orchestra in the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in fall 2010. Last summer, she was selected to participate in the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. After the festival, she went on a study abroad program in Central European University taking grad-level coursework and Liszt Academy of Music studying with Andras Kemenes in Hungary. The master classes she has participated in include those taught by Stephen Kovacevich, Ferenc Rados, Andras Kemenes, Piotr Paleczny, Chen Pi-Hsien, Ning An, Richard Goode, Wen-Yu Shen, Martin Vojtisek, and Francesco Monopoli. Contact: Tricia Reed
Phone: 845-752-2380
E-mail: [email protected]

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Degree Recital: David A. Nagy, Bassoon

Saturday, April 13, 2013 | | Bitó Conservatory Building

David Adam Nagy, bassoon, hails from Debrecen, Hungary. A top-ranking graduate of the Zoltán Kodály High School of Music, Nagy was admitted as a Bitó Scholar to the unique double degree program of the Bard College Conservatory of Music where his studies focus on the bassoon and Japanese language and literature. He is a student of Patricia Rogers and Marc Goldberg and studies as well with cellist Luis Garcia-Renart. Over the past 10 years Nagy has won numerous competitions and was also a recipient of the Kodály Prize for his excellence in music and academics. In August 2012, he was named a Distinguished Visitor of Táchira County in Venezuela while was a teaching artist at the inaugural San Juan de Colòn Music Festival. Nagy recently appeared as a soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra lead by music director Leon Botstein and on the Bard Conservatory's first European Chamber Music Tour. He recently took on the role as director of development for Contemporaneous. This year, Nagy will spend his third summer at the Castleton Festival playing operas and symphonic programs under the baton of Lorin Maazel. 

Contact: Bard Conservatory
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