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Jacqueline Beihua Tang dazzles with Mozart in Beethoven rally
Pianist and pedagogue Jacqueline Beihua Tang dazzled the audience with Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in a rally of Beethoven's complete piano concertos installed in southern Shanghai in late July at the Nine Trees Future Art Center of Fengxian district. Accompaying her was the Nine Trees Philharmonic under the baton of Anatoly Zatin, a Russia born Mexico based pianist and conductor.
The rally, in which the five Beethoven piano concertos were rendered by a different international pianist on five consecutive nights largely following a chronological order accompanied by the Center's resident chamber music size orchestra, was the core of the inaugural Piano Concerto Festial hosted by the Nine Trees Future Art Center from July 21st to 26th. The outputs by Beethoven were supplemented by piano concertos composed by Mozart and Chopin as pairing programmes.
Piano Concerto No. 23 by Mozart with Jacqueline Beihua Tang as soloist was performed in the first half of the concert on the fifth night on July 25th. The audience bursted into a fanfare when she walked towards the centre of the stage with a designer's white satin evening gown that required the help of a staff member to flatten the hem of the skirt on the floow after she sat on the stool. Among the audience were diplomats, returned scholars from the non-profit organizations Jacqueline chairs, her students, admirers and all the visiting pianists playing in the rally.
Péter Nagy, professor of piano at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart in Germany, was sitting in the auditorium who just led from keyboard Piano Concerto No. 2 in the rally and conducted Symphony No.5 by Beethoven on July 22nd. He spoke highly of Jacqueline's execution of notes:"Her second movement touches me very much. She shows me such a palette of colours. She is very convincing in some places where she plays like Chopin, in a good sense. People say if one can play Mozart one can play Chopin. What she has done is very operatic. What she has done is a miracle."
Most of the pianists engaged for the Beethoven rally teaches at a music academy. Anatoly Zatin is a professor at the University of Colima in Mexico. Péter Nagy teaches doctorate candidates in both Budapest and Stuttgart. Italian pianist Gianluca Luisi is a professor at the Giacchino Rossini Conservatorio in Pesaro. Albert Mamriev is a concert pianist, piano professor, and rector of "Neue Sterne" Music Academy in Hannover.
She compares Mozart's style to steamed fish rather than a hot pot fish in a way that playing Mozart requires the sound of tranquility:"One plays Mozart with natural ingredients only. There is no need and there should not be room for extra flavours. Every note has to be executed naturally and consistely. It's like a priceless necklace where each pearl looks identical in shape, size and colour. It's all about the nuances and details in the bigger picture of taste, form and logic. I don't want to just play Mozart. Instead I want to live in Mozart."
Piano Concerto No. 23 by Mozart with Jacqueline Beihua Tang as soloist was performed in the first half of the concert on the fifth night on July 25th. The audience bursted into a fanfare when she walked towards the centre of the stage with a designer's white satin evening gown that required the help of a staff member to flatten the hem of the skirt on the floow after she sat on the stool. Among the audience were diplomats, returned scholars from the non-profit organizations Jacqueline chairs, her students, admirers and all the visiting pianists playing in the rally.
Péter Nagy, professor of piano at the Liszt Academy in Budapest and at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart in Germany, was sitting in the auditorium who just led from keyboard Piano Concerto No. 2 in the rally and conducted Symphony No.5 by Beethoven on July 22nd. He spoke highly of Jacqueline's execution of notes:"Her second movement touches me very much. She shows me such a palette of colours. She is very convincing in some places where she plays like Chopin, in a good sense. People say if one can play Mozart one can play Chopin. What she has done is very operatic. What she has done is a miracle."
A professor at the piano department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and jury member of major piano competitions for youth around the world, she spent most of her time teaching and mentoring. Previously she has played the same piano concerto with the Central Philharmonic Society in Beijing (now the China National Symphony Orchestra) under the baton of Shi Shucheng, with the Guangzhou Symphony and Shanxi Symphony Orchestra in the 1990s, then the Minnesota Orchestra in 1998. Since then she hasn't visited the piece, and stayed away from the spotlight for a long time by dedicating herself to teaching.
Some of her students have achieved global stardom including Zhang Shengliang who also goes by Niu Niu. His recording of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No. 6 with Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jaap Van Zweden under Decca was an instant hit when it was released in the beginning of May. Cunmo Yin, another award-winning student of Jacqueline, currently teaches at the Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media in Germany.
"As a piano teacher I have to be able to perform as a concert pianist and engage with the audience in the first place. By doing that then I am able to tell my students how to get prepared and motivated for the stage. That's why it's so important for a professor to be equally good in the classroom as in a concert hall because there are the things can not be learnt or taught in a studio," she said.
Some of her students have achieved global stardom including Zhang Shengliang who also goes by Niu Niu. His recording of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Symphony No. 6 with Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jaap Van Zweden under Decca was an instant hit when it was released in the beginning of May. Cunmo Yin, another award-winning student of Jacqueline, currently teaches at the Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media in Germany.
"As a piano teacher I have to be able to perform as a concert pianist and engage with the audience in the first place. By doing that then I am able to tell my students how to get prepared and motivated for the stage. That's why it's so important for a professor to be equally good in the classroom as in a concert hall because there are the things can not be learnt or taught in a studio," she said.
Most of the pianists engaged for the Beethoven rally teaches at a music academy. Anatoly Zatin is a professor at the University of Colima in Mexico. Péter Nagy teaches doctorate candidates in both Budapest and Stuttgart. Italian pianist Gianluca Luisi is a professor at the Giacchino Rossini Conservatorio in Pesaro. Albert Mamriev is a concert pianist, piano professor, and rector of "Neue Sterne" Music Academy in Hannover.
She compares Mozart's style to steamed fish rather than a hot pot fish in a way that playing Mozart requires the sound of tranquility:"One plays Mozart with natural ingredients only. There is no need and there should not be room for extra flavours. Every note has to be executed naturally and consistely. It's like a priceless necklace where each pearl looks identical in shape, size and colour. It's all about the nuances and details in the bigger picture of taste, form and logic. I don't want to just play Mozart. Instead I want to live in Mozart."
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