Frederick Collection | Hwaen Ch'uqi: Late Works of Schubert II | 05.2024

Music from the Frederick Collection | 38th Spring Season
Ashburnham Community Church,
New Dawn Arts Center, Ashburnham, MA, USA
Sunday, 26 May 2024
Live performance by
HWAEN CH'UQI, piano by Johann Nepomuk Tröndlin, Leipzig (ca. 1830)
Late Works of FRANZ SCHUBERT II
00:56 6 Moments Musicaux, D.780 1. Moderato in C
07:08 D.780 2. Andantino in A♭
13:35 D.780 3. Allegro moderato in f
15:26 D.780 6. Allegretto in A♭
26:43 Sonata No. 19 in c, D.958 1. Allegro
39:00 D.958 2. Adagio
47:18 Hwaen Ch'uqi thanks Patricia and Michael Frederick
48:02 [encore] Schumann Träumerei (Kinderszenen, Op. 15, No. 7)
51:10 credits & support
Duration 51:45
© 2024 Frederick Collection
℗ 2024 Hwaen Ch'uqi
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An Inca Indian and native of Perú, pianist-composer HWAEN CH'UQI holds bachelor's and baster's in piano performance from Eastman, where he studied under Natalya Antonova. He is one of the few pianists to have been invited three times as a fellow at Tanglewood, where he studied with Gilbert Kalish and Leon Fleisher. A semi-finalist at the 2nd Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition (Moscow), he was awarded the Special Prize. In 2012 he was a finalist at the 17th International Piano Duo Composition Competition (Tokyo). He is a member of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Chamber Music Society and is a co-founder of a number of ensembles. In 2009, the American Liszt Society commissioned him and five other composer-pianists to produce a second book of the celebrated Hexameron Variations, the original having emerged from a collaboration by Liszt, Chopin, Czerny, Thalberg, and other 1830s pianist-composers. His piano duos and duets are required repertoire for the 2023 International Piano Duo and Duet Competition (Ohio State University). A prolific composer, Hwaen Ch'uqi has received a great many commissions and has completed a massive piano sonata, several chamber sonatas, a song cycle, solo and four-hands piano suites, and a children’s musical.
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This was a remarkable concert! So much feeling and dynamics to his playing. Wonderful.