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Winner of the Audience Award and finalist at the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2017, Young Steinway Artist Rachel Cheung was described as “a poet, but also a dramatist” displaying “the most sophisticated and compelling music-making” (The Dallas Morning News).

Rachel was born and raised in Hong Kong,and is a graduate of both the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Yale School of Music. A highly decorated performer, Rachel also won prizes at the Leeds and Chopin International Piano Comepetitions. She has performed for audiences around the world, throughout Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Ukraine,the United Kingdom, and the United States, including performances at Auditorium du Louvre (Paris), Steinway Hall (London), Kennedy Center (Conservatory Program), and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

PROGRAM

FRANCK | BAUER                        Prelude, Chorale et Variation, op. 18

PROKOFIEV                                  Suggestion diabolique

TCHAIKOVSKY | PLETNEV       Selections from the Nutcracker Suite
                                                              March
                                                              Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
                                                              Trèpak (Russian Dance)

SCHUMANN | LISZT                  Widmung

SCHUBERT | LISZT                   Auf dem Wasser zu singen

LISZT                                            Mephisto Waltz No. 1

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