George Li

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George Li ( Chinese  黎卓宇 , Pinyin Lí zhuōyǔ ) (born August 24, 1995 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is a Chinese- American pianist .

education

George Li was born to Chinese parents. He took piano lessons at the age of four and later studied with Yin Chengzong. He graduated from Walnut Hill School and the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, where he studied with Wha Kyung Byun and Russell Sherman. He is enrolled in a dual study program at Harvard University and the New England Conservatory .

career

He made his orchestral debut with the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of nine, a year after making his solo debut in his hometown of Boston. Since then he has appeared in recitals, as a chamber musician and as a concert soloist. At the age of eleven, he made his Carnegie Hall debut , which was featured in NPR's (now Public Broadcasting Service ) new series , From the Top. Two weeks later he appeared on the Martha Stewart show.

The orchestras with which he has performed as a soloist include the Los Angeles Philharmonic , the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Orchester National de Lyon, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic , the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra , the Cleveland Orchestra , the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana Simón Bolívar , the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Waltham Symphony Orchestra, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, the Lexington Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra . the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra .

On June 7, 2011, Li performed for President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as well as Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband Joachim Sauer at a state reception dinner in the White House Rose Garden .

His debut album with solo works by Frédéric Chopin , Franz Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff was released in autumn 2017.

Li lives in Lexington , Massachusetts.

Awards

Li won the Music Teachers Association first prize in Massachusetts State competitions at ages six and seven . In 2005, at the age of nine, he won second prize in both the Virginia Waring International and the Cincinnati World Piano Competition . In 2008 Li won second prize at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Junior Artist Competition . In 2010 he won first prize at the Cooper International Piano Competition . In the same year he won first prize at the International Auditions of the Young Concert Artists .

On June 23, 2011, Li was named one of two recipients of the 2012 Gilmore Young Artist Award . To this day, he is the youngest recipient of the award.

On July 1, 2015, Li and Lukas Geniušas won second prize at the 15th International Tchaikovsky Competition . Since then he has had a highly regarded international career with recitals, chamber music performances and appearances with major orchestras in North America, Asia and Europe. In 2016 he was one of four recipients of the Avery Fisher Career Grant .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Li at White House. New England Conservatory , June 8, 2011.
  2. ↑ NPR From the Top TV Series. PBS .
  3. ↑ Nicholas Jones: Cooper International Piano Competition: reflections and the final round at Severance Hall ( Memento from December 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: The ClevelandClassical.com. August 2, 2010.
  4. ^ Richard Duckett: Guest soloist at 13; BPO taps pianist George Li to help open 149th Worcester Music Festival. In: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA). October 16, 2008.
  5. ^ The 18th Interfaith Concert of Remembrance. Interfaith Committee of Remembrance. October 25, 2008.
  6. ↑ Pianist George Li is joining the Waltham Symphony Orchestra to Perform the Mendelssohn's Concerto No. 1 ( Memento from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Waltham Symphony Orchestra, March 28, 2009.
  7. ^ Nancy Plum: Princeton Symphony Orchestra's 30th Season Opens with Wunderkind Pianist George Li. In: Town Topics. October 7, 2009.
  8. ^ Albany Symphony Orchestra @ Palace Theater. In: Times Union. November 4, 2009.
  9. ^ Li to perform with symphony Saturday ( Memento from November 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: Lexington Minuteman. February 1, 2010.
  10. ^ Organ Symphony. Detroit Symphony Orchestra , 10/11. February 2018.
  11. ↑ George Li. Munich Symphony Orchestra .
  12. ↑ George Li. Piano. Lucerne Symphony Orchestra .
  13. ^ German State Dinner. White House, June 7, 2011.
  14. ↑ George Li. Biography. George Li's website (German).
  15. ↑ 2005 Winners List ( Memento from November 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). Virginia Waring International Piano Competition, January 2005.
  16. ↑ International Junior Competition. 2008 ( Memento of July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, July 2008.
  17. ↑ The Thomas & Evon Cooper International Piano Competition. 2010. Pianist George Li, 14, is the winner of the Cooper Competition. Oberlin College & Conservatory, July 30, 2010.
  18. ^ Cindy Cantrell: Lexington youth wins music competition ( Memento of August 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). In: Boston Globe ("West People" column). August 20, 2010.
  19. ↑ George Li, pianist ( Memento July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Young Concert Artists, December 2010.
  20. ^ Current Gilmore Young Artists ( Memento July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Gilmore Keyboard Festival, June 23, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME George Li
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 黎卓宇 (Chinese); Lí zhuōyǔ (Pinyin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Chinese pianist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts