Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Faculty Artist Recital: Chen Zhao, Violin
A faculty artist recital featuring Chen Zhao on the violin.
When:
October 2, 2012 8:00pm to 12:00am
Where
Violinist Chen Zhao joined the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in August 2000. Chen has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, and performed at prestigious festivals such as Ravinia, La Jolla, Santa Fe, Round Top, Evian, Lucerne, and the BBC Proms in London. He has appeared as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. Born in Shanghai, a graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Crossroads School, Curtis Institute of Music, and SF Conservatory of Music, Chen's teachers include Camilla Wicks, Felix Galimir, Heiichiro Ohyama, and Martin Lovett of the Amadeus Quartet. Chen is currently on faculty at the SFCM and San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Chen Zhao can be contacted at zolzen@yahoo.com.
Program:
Bach
Cantata BWV 202 (Wedding Cantata)
Aria: "Wenn Die Frühlingslüfte Streichen"
Cantata, BWV 204 Aria: "Die Schätzbarkeit Der Weiten Erde"
Debussy
Sonata for Violin & Piano
Ysa?e
Violin Sonata for Two Violins
Shostakovich
Songs from Romanzen-Suite Op. 127
Beethoven
String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2
"Razumovsky"
Performers:
Amy Hiraga, violin
Carri Abrahms, soprano
Chen Zhao, violin
Elizabeth Dorman, piano
Florin Parvulescu, violin
Jay Liu, viola
Peter Wyrick, cello
Cost:
$20 general/$15 students, seniors and Friends of the Conservatory
Phone Number:
415.864.7326
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