Chinoiserie: Jenny Lin, piano

Jenny Lin applies her tremendous talent to pieces that reflect three centuries of China's influence on Western music in this recital at the Smithsonian Institute.

Acclaimed young pianist Jenny Lin received a “Best of the Year” ranking by the Washington Post for her 2009 CD of Shostakovitch’s Preludes and Fugues, which Classics Today called “hands down the finest version of this massive work.” In this recital, she applies her tremendous talent to pieces that reflect three centuries of China’s influence on Western music, from Couperin’s Les Chinois of 1730 to Grammy Award-winner Zhou Long’s Pianogongs of 2007. The program also includes Chinese-inspired works from the nineteenth century through today by Rossini, Busoni, Anton Arensky, Albert Ketelbey, Percy Grainger, Alexander Tcherepnin, Leo Ornstein, John Adams, Morton Gould, Vincent Ho, and Chou Wen-Chung.