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2007 Mother's Day Concert Soloists
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Melody Lai Quyang (pianist)
Melody began her piano studies at the age of three. In her native country Taiwan, she was a winner of several piano competitions at a very young age, including the Tainan Citywide Piano Competition (for four consecutive years), the Taiwan National Piano Competition, and the Kawaii Piano Competition.
Ms. Ouyang came to the United States in 1990 as a full scholarship student at The Juilliard School Pre-College Division. Since coming to the United States, she has won numerous awards, including the Artist International Piano Competition, Corpus Christi International Young Artists Competition, The Juilliard School Concerto Competition, International Young Artists Piano Competition (held in Washington, D.C.), Cultural Heritage Music Competition, Five Towns Music and Art Foundation Competition, Great Neck Music Competition, and Chiang Wen Yeh International Piano Competition.
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Ms. Ouyang's performances as soloist with orchestra include appearances with The Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, The Virginia Symphony, The Maryland Youth Symphony, and The La Guardia Symphony, among others. She has given solo and chamber music recitals in major concert venues in the U.S.--Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Steinway Hall, and The Juilliard Theatre, among others.
Ms. Ouyang has toured Italy, Switzerland, Japan, and Taiwan as a recitalist. She has also performed at many major music festivals, including The Tanglewood Institute, Aspen Music Festival, the Summit Festival, the Blossom Festival, and at the Sarasota Music Festival. In addition, she was a featured artist on WQXR Radio in New York City as well as on several classical radio stations around the country.
Ms. Ouyang received her Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School, her Master of Music degree from Yale School of Music, and her Doctoral of Musical Arts degree from The New England Conservatory of Music. While studying at The Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music, she has taught piano performance as a teaching assistant. Currently, Ms. Ouyang teaches piano at her studio in Frisco, Texas.
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Lan Jiang (cellist)
Mr. Lan Jiang is originally from Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan Province in China. He has appeared as a chamber musician as well as a soloist in Asia, Europe, and North America. In 2003 Mr. Jiang performed the transcribed viola concerto for the cello by Bela Bartok with the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Jiang was a founding member of "The First Cello Orchestra of China," that toured in Switzerland in 1999. His performance of Beethoven's Piano Trio, op. 1, no. 3 was broadcast on the radio KNTU FM88.1 in 2006. In December of the same year, Mr. Jiang performed at the Lewisville Lake International Chamber Series' "China Classical" Concert, where he received an "Honorary Citizen" title from the mayor of the town of Flower Mound in Texas.
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Mr. Jiang started his professional training at the middle school and high school of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China. After completing his undergraduate studies at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Mr. Jiang taught cello as a faculty member at the Department of Arts at Shanghai Teachers University. Mr. Jiang came to the United States in 2000 to study with Dennis Parker at Louisiana State University. In 2004, he received his Master's degree from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Currently, Mr. Jiang is pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of North Texas, where he is studying with Eugene Osadchy.
Mr. Jiang's formal teachers include Karen Buranskas, Jiuhe Cheng, Fuxiang Ding, Dennis Parker, Peifan Wang, and Yun Yang. He also had master classes with several distinguished cellists and chamber groups, such as Yo-Yo Ma, Janos Starker, Erling Bengtsson, Eleonore Schoenfeld, the Miami String Quartet, the Julliard String Quartet, etc. Mr Jiang is a founding member of the Larose String Quartet, which was established in 2006. The Quartet was invited to participate in master classes and workshops with members of the Julliard String Quartet for the celebration of its 60th anniversary.
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San-ky Kim (tenor)
The Korean-born lyric tenor San-ky Kim received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Australian National University and his Bachelor of Music from the Canberra Institute of the Arts. He completed his Master of Music degree at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and received his Professional Studies Diploma and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Temple University.
Mr. Kim made his professional debut with the Philadelphia Opera Company and later pursued a full-time operatic career for more than eight years in Europe, performing in Helsinki, Biel, Bern, Amsterdam, Brussels, Gent, and Prague before settling in Germany. He has performed major operatic roles in countries throughout the world as well as sung in solo, chamber, and oratorio settings.
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Mr. Kim has taught in Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and the United States, most recently at Lincoln University in Philadelphia where he taught applied voice and directed the opera program. He is fluent in German, French, and Italian in addition to English and his native Korean. Mr. Kim firmly believes that singing, like all other forms of art, is an aesthetic expression of communicative gestures. Mr. Kim and his violinist wife Irina share their newest passion for Argentinean Tango, where musical communicative gestures take on physical aspects. He is an Associate Professor of Voice at the Texas Christian University.
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