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Free and Open to the Public Piano Recital (flier)
on Friday, January 27, 2023 at 7:30 pm
at the Cary Arts Center,
101 Dry Avenue — Downtown Cary.
Renowned pianist Clara Yang performed
Beethoven Op. 109, Brahms, Chopin, Zhong Long and Debussy.
Dr. Yang is an Associate Professor at UNC Chapel Hill.
Praised by critics for her sensitivity, intelligence, and
excitement in playing, Chinese-American pianist Clara Yang has
performed in notable venues such as Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall,
the Forbidden City Concert Hall (Beijing), Auditorio Nacional de
Musica (Madrid), the Seymour Centre (Sydney), Kodak Hall at the
Eastman Theater (Rochester), the Sunset Center (Carmel), Memorial
Hall (Chapel Hill), Meymandi Concert Hall (Raleigh), and on major
series such as Carolina Performing Arts and Dame Myra Hess in
Chicago Cultural Center. She is currently Associate Professor of
Piano and Head of Keyboard Studies at UNC Chapel Hill.
As a concert soloist, she has collaborated with renowned
conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Long Yu, Carl St. Clair,
Josep Caballe Domenech, Grant Llewellyn, Tonu Kalam, Laura Jackson,
Jeff Tyzik, and George Jackson, among others. In addition, she also
frequently collaborates with living composers. She performed the
world premiere of renowned composer Chen Yi’s piano concerto in
China and the US premiere of the concerto on the Carolina
Performing Arts Series.
Her solo album Folding Time (AlbanyRecords) won a Global Music
Awards Gold Medal and was selected Best of 2016 by American Record
Guide. She studied with Nelita True at the Eastman School of Music
(DMA), Claude Frank at the Yale School of Music (MM, Artist
Diploma), and John Perry at USC Thornton School of Music (BM). Her
principal teachers in her pre-college years include Hans Boepple,
Guangren Zhou, and Huili Li.
FREE Piano Recital (flier) on Friday, May 13, 2022 at 7:30 pm. Dylan Savage, artist, writer, and professor of piano at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte, gave a free recital at the Cary Arts Center
101 Dry Ave., Cary, NC (map).
Dylan Savage is a Bösendorfer Concert Artist, a Capstone
Records Recording Artist, and a winner of the Rome Festival Orchestra
Competition. He is author of the book The Transposed Musician: Teaching
Universal Skills to Improve Performance and Benefit Life, GIA Publications.
It is the first book to present a comprehensive and systematic method for
teaching universal skills within the context of the music lesson. Dr.
Savage is co-author of the piano pedagogy book A Symposium for Pianists and
Teachers: Strategies to Develop the Mind and Body for Optimal Performance,
Heritage Music Press. He is the author of numerous articles found in
Clavier, Clavier Companion, American Music Teacher, and
Pianoforte magazines on topics such as wellness, entrepreneurship, and
universal skills.
Dr. Savage pioneered the use of slow-motion video analysis
to help pianists improve performance and minimize injury. His research has
resulted in numerous master-classes at top music schools and
national/international conferences. For decades, Savage has used live music
performance to teach in-depth practices of universal skills and continuous
improvement to people in non-music disciplines. Applying universal skills
to the study of music and to life is the foundation of his studio teaching
at UNCC. His work has been featured in television spots on NBC and PBS
affiliates.
Dr. Savage is Professor of Piano at the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte. He has degrees in piano from the Oberlin
Conservatory and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Drawing
inspiration from nature, he can often be found skiing, hiking, or
canoeing.
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Students of CAPTA members shared their favorite pieces with friends, family, and
Glenaire residents on Saturday, April 23, 2022 from 3:00-7:30 pm at our
Spring Fest Recital.
Students of all ages and experience levels presented
piano music from all genres and eras. CAPTA teachers reserved
performance time slots by contacting event chair Natalie Khatibzadeh. CAPTA
would like to thank the Glenaire Retirement
Community for generously hosting this event, and would also like to spread the
word about the recent Glenaire Benefit 5K run.
See https//:www.glenaire5k.org/ for more race
details.
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Fall Student Recital (flier)
Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 2 p.m. at
Christ the King Lutheran Church, 600 Walnut Street, Cary, NC
(Next to Cary HS — map)
*Masks Required* (Plenty of room to social distance!)
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FREE Piano Recital (flier)
Friday, October 8, 2021 at 7:30 p.m.
Thomas Pandolfi performed an eclectic
program
of solo piano works at the
Cary Arts Center
101 Dry Ave., Cary, NC (map).
ADMISSION FREE. Thomas Pandolfi began his music career early on at The Juilliard
School (BM & MM) where the young prodigy caught the influential ears of Vladimir
Horowitz, who would become his mentor, as well as the legendary composer, Morton Gould.
Since then he has been an audience favorite, selling out the world’s most prestigious
stages, such as Lincoln Center Alice Tully Hall, Strathmore, The Kennedy Center, Kiev
Opera House, Bucharest’s Romanian Athenaeum, and London’s Cadogan Hall. In addition to
being hailed as one of the greatest interpreters of Polish masters such as Chopin and
Paderewski, this versatile pianist has received accolades for his work interpreting
composers from Bach to Gershwin, with Morton Gould saying, “It’s the finest performance
of Gershwin I have heard since the composer himself.” His original and virtuosic
transcriptions of works such as West Side Story and Phantom of the Opera, are
one-of-kind, jaw-dropping, dramatic encores that keep audiences of all ages returning
to his performances. Maestro Pandolfi is a Steinway Artist and when he is not on tour,
resides in Washington, DC. www.thomaspandolfi.com
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Students in recital, November, 2020
Congratulations to the winners of
the recent Elizabeth Bullard Competition and the
Scholarship Competition.
Alice Wan
David Niu
Eric Wang
Kevin Xu
High School Winners
1st place: Eric Wang (Olga Urick);
2nd place: Xiye Chen (Florence Ko);
HM: David Niu (Florence Ko),
Samuel Zhang (Olga Urick),
Arran Swift (Zinaida Astrakhan),
Camila Fratta (Olga Kleiankina)
Middle School Winners
1st place: Alice Wan (Florence Ko);
2nd place: Olivia Li (Alice Zhao);
HM: Chloe Lin (Florence Ko),
Kaishun Sato-Choi (Olga Kleiankina),
Angelina Zhang (Florence Ko)
CAPTA College Scholarship Winners
Major: Eric Wang (Olga Urick);
Minor: Kevin Xu (Florence Ko),
David Niu (Florence Ko)
(Teachers' names are in parentheses.)
World Music Workshop
Saturday, February 29th, 2020
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 221 Union Street, Cary (map)
From 9am to 12noon (Registration & check in at 8:45).
Spent a day traveling around the world through music and folk tales. Acted
out a German fairy tale, went behind the scenes of Peter and the Wolf, met the
instruments of West Africa and Anansi the Spider, and experienced the magic of
the Russian folk ensemble Moscow Nights.
Students in Grades 1-5 participated
in the "World Music Through Stories" Workshop even if they were not piano
students. The cost was $12 before Feb. 20 and $15 after that. Click for a
registration form
and a flier to share with a friend!
Photos from last year's workshop
- Public Piano Recital (flier)
Friday, February 21, 2020 at 7:30 pm.
Kwan Li presented an all-Beethoven program of solo piano works at the Cary Arts
Center 101 Dry Ave. (map).
ADMISSION FREE. Yi is a graduate of the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School and the Peabody
Institute where he worked with Leon Fleisher and Robert McDonald. He has performed at Carnegie
Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Chicago Symphony Center, the Metropolitan and
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museums, the Library of Congress and the Seoul Arts Center. He
currently serves as assistant professor of piano at ECU School of Music.
