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Program

Speed Etude for Viola and Piano (1947)                    Quincy Porter (1897–1966)              I. Predule
 IV. Sarabande
 VI. Gigue

Short Intermission

Sonata for Viola Solo Op. 25, No. 1                                               Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
  I. Breit Viertel
 II. Sehr Frisch und straff (Viertel)
III. Sehr langsam
IV. Rasendes Zeitmaß. Wild. Tonschönheit ist Nebensache

About the Artists     
Weilan Li, from Shenzhen, China, is now a third-year student at the Bard Conservatory, where she studies viola with Steven Tenenbom and Marka Gustavsson. In addition to studying viola, Weilan has chosen anthropology as her second major at Bard. She began playing the viola in 2009 after seven years of playing the violin while attending the middle school at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music in China.
           
Weilan has attended many music festivals, including the Young Artists Program (YAP) of National Arts Center in Ottawa, where she was selected for the Pinchas Zukerman studio and studied with Zukerman, Patinka Kopec, and Grigory Kalinovsky in 2017. She attended the National Youth Orchestra of China (NYO–China) the same year, where she was principal viola performing in New York’s Carnegie Hall with Yuja Wang and Maestro Ludovic Morlot. She also played on tour in China, performing in Beijing, Shanghai, and Suzhou with pianist Olga Kern.

In the summer of 2018, Weilan attended the Chamber Music Intensive of Taconic Music in Manchester, Vermont, where she studied chamber music with Enso Quartet, the Indianapolis Quartet, and the Horszowski Trio, and had lessons with Melissa Reardon, Michael Strauss, Ariel Rudiakov, Amadi Azikiwe, and others. In July, she attended the String Summer Mastercourse of Keshet Eilon in Israel, where she started with soloist Tatjana Masurenko (Hochschule für Musik) and Francoise Gneri (CNSM of Lyon). Weilan collaborated with solo violinist Sergey Ostrovsky and violist Tatjana Masurenko, performing Tchaikovsky’s “Souvenir de Florence.” She has had coachings with Shmuel Ashkenasi, Ira Weller, Peter Serkin, Raman Ramakrishnan, Nicholas Mann, David Geber, Yi-Wen Jiang, and Jay Liu. She has also played in masterclasses with the Shanghai Quartet, Ani Kavafian, Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, Peter Wiley, Ivan Chan, and Samuel Rhodes. She won the second prize in the Viola Category in the Hong Kong International String Competition. 

Pianist James Berger, from Buffalo, New York, is a second-year student in the Conservatory, studying piano with Benjamin Hochman.
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