For musicians of all kinds
January 11th, 2010 by barbara
On Saturday January 23 at 4:30 in Cornell’s Statler Auditorium Ithaca-born and internationally known concert pianist and teacher Frederick Chiu will concentrateon the mind-body relationship in musical performance. He will play and talk about a set of Chopin Etudes, focusing on the physical challenges of the pieces, and demonstrating their mental and emotional challenges. He will then play the Beethoven Symphony #5 transcribed by Liszt, which pushes the pianist to extremes in the physical, mental and emotional realms. Chiu will be performing on a new Yamaha hybrid grand piano that he helped develop.
