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