Duo Rapide: Roberta Michel, flute, and Han Chen, piano

Program:

Alice Shields: Meditation for Flute on a Sanskrit poem for solo flute (2024) *world premiere

Alba Potes: Ternura de las Grullas (Tenderness of Cranes) for solo flute (1995)

Erik Lundborg: Duettino, Fughetta & Scherzo for flute and piano (2012-2015) *New York premiere

(intermission)

Anthony Korf: Departures and Arrivals for solo piano (2024) *world premiere

Tania León: Alma for flute and piano (2007) 

Pierre Boulez: Sonatine for flute and piano (1946)

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Octandre (1923)
Edgard Varèse
for chamber ensemble

Mother and Child (1943)
William Grant Still
for string orchestra

The Housatonic at Stockbridge (1921)
Charles Ives
for soprano and piano

Three Places in New England (1903-1929)
Charles Ives
for chamber orchestra

-intermission-

Hoarding Behaviors (2022-2023) WORLD PREMIERE
Sang Song
for soprano and 11 instruments

Music by Roscoe Mitchell, Nicole Mitchell, Eve Beglarian, and David Ludwig. For more details, please visit: https://artsandletters.org

Han is joining a group of Ursula’ friends to perform at Ursula’s 80th birthday concert at Merkin Hall. Han will perform Colon Nancarrow’s Two Canons for Ursula.

Recording session for Daniel Hass’s Piano Quartet “Been There Once Before” at the Samurai Hotel with Rannveig Marta Sarc, Brian Hong, and Daniel Hass.

Ligeti 100

Concert presented by ensembleSRQ in Sarasota, FL

Program to include Ligeti Études and Horn Trio.

More info.

Han is performing works by Tom Morrison at the Princeton Sound Kitchen.

Salon concert at the Piano on Park. Program to include Beethoven and Corigliano.

This fall pianist Han Chen world-premieres his latest commissioning project, “Infinite Staircase” at National Sawdust. Inspired by György Ligeti's 18 Piano Etudes, “Infinite Staircase” brings together 18 contemporary composers, hand-picked by Chen to represent a more diverse and creative future of classical music. Each composer is paired with one of the Ligeti etudes as a starting point for a new work. Chen, who has just released a new recording of the complete Ligeti Piano Etudes on Naxos, will perform all thirty-six works in one evening as a celebratory tribute to the iconic avant-garde composer’s centenary this year.

Check the National Sawdust event page here.

Piano Recital of complete Ligeti Études at Cremona Musica.

Han is serving on the jury for the Irvine Conservatory International Music Competition 2023.

Summer Concerts @ NEC 2023 presented by Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts

Program:

Alban Berg: Piano Sonata, Op. 1

György Ligeti: Études for piano, Book 1
I. Désordre
II. Cordes à vide
III. Touches bloquées
IV. Fanfares
V. Arc-en-ciel
VI. Automne à Varsovie

~ Intermission ~

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier”
I. Allegro
II. Scherzo: Assai vivace
III. Adagio sostenuto
IV. Largo - Allegro risoluto

A House concert in Luzern, Switzerland with music including Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106 “Hammerklavier”

There will be two performances of the same program, one at 7:30pm and one at 9:00pm. One hour long each.

Program:

Alban Berg - Piano Sonata Op. 1 (1907-09)

John Corigliano - Etude-Fantasy (1976)

Thomas Adès - Traced Overhead (1996)

Maurice Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit (1908)

Han Chen’s 4th solo album is to be released in May 2023. Under the Naxos label, this album features complete études by György Ligeti. More info TBA.

Performing Luciano Berio’s Linea for two piano, vibraphone and marimba.

Han Chen will serve on the jury for New England Conservatory Piano Department’s Ligeti Étude contest.

Tickets are available at the door. Reception to follow.

Program:

A. Berg: Piano Sonata, Op. 1

M. Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit

Intermission

L.v. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110

F. Liszt: Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi sonata

Online masterclass for 2022 winners of the Irvine Conservatory International Music Competition.

Reservations: studio.klavierhaus.com/events

Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/OLQ_EMlqn08?feature=share

Program:

Alice Ping Yee Ho - The Chinese Nightingale (2022) (US premiere)

Jared Miller - Erode? Evolve? (2022) (US premiere)

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110

~ Intermission ~

Liszt - Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S161

No. 4: Sonetto 47 del Petrarca

No 5: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca

No 6: Sonetto 123 del Petrarca

No 7: Après une lecture du Dante 'Fantasia quasi Sonata'

(The two pieces by Alice Ping Yee Ho and Jared Miller were commissioned by Müzewest Concerts in Vancouver for Han Chen with generous support from the Canadian Council for the Arts.)

Presented by WNYC & Apollo (click here for tickets and live-streams)

Ensemble performance with The Harlem Chamber Players

Including music by David Baker

PinkNoise Ensemble gives the North American premiere of the epic Systema Naturae by Mauro Lanza and Andrea Valle. Ticket info TBA.

Han Chen joins Riverside Symphony for a performance of Mozart’s Jeunehomme Piano Concerto.

PinkNoise plays student composers from Columbia University. More info TBA.

Müzewest Concerts presents “Cross Roads of Place and Time” featuring pianist Han Chen, clarinetist Christopher Lee, cellist Jonathan Lo, and composers Alice Ping Yee Ho and Jared Miller. Find tickets here.

Program:

Alice Ping Yee Ho - The Chinese Nightingale, for solo piano (2022 - World Premiere)

Jared Miller - New Work, for solo piano (2022 - World Premiere)

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) - Sonata no. 31 for piano in A-flat Major, op. 110

Intermission

Robert Schumann - (1810 - 1856) Drei Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 (Three Fantasy Pieces)

Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) - Clarinet Sonata In F Minor Op. 120 No. 1