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About Patrick Yim, Violin, Viola Honolulu-born violinist Patrick Yim made his solo debut with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra (now the Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra), and has since given chamber music performances with members of the Juilliard, Emerson, St. Lawrence, Pacifica and Ying quartets. He appeared with The Cleveland Orchestra on a tour of the United States and Europe, and with the violinists of the Emerson Quartet at Carnegie Hall. In 2024, he performed the world premiere of Bamboo Grove , an unaccompanied violin work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long.
About Kiu Tung Poon, Piano Young Steinway Artist Kiu Tung Poon has appeared on concert stages worldwide, and at venues and festivals including Tanglewood and Aspen in the United States, Wiener Konzerthaus in Austria, St Martin-in-the-Fields in London and the Great Wall of China in Beijing. Recent releases include the critically acclaimed Digital Mist (Naxos 8.559903), featuring works for violin and piano by George Tsontakis, Chen Yi and Sebastian and Nathan Currier, and One Piano, Two Cultures – Early Piano Works by Contemporary Chinese Composers (Grand Piano GP984). Kiu Tung Poon graduated from Indiana University Bloomington and the University of Texas at Austin with a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance. She is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Music at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Recordings featuring Chen Yi’s works
‘These works are challenging and emotionally rich, and require no special pleading. Anyone interested in the continuing evolution of Chinese culture needs to give this excellent [disc] a listen.’ – Fanfare
‘Susan Chan plays with tremendous musicianship and technical mastery throughout the recording. Her commitment to this music, to which she alludes in her programme note, is audible in every phrase she plays. The disc’s sound quality is impeccable.’ – Fanfare
‘The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra under Darrell Ang does a respectable job bring these works to life. Long and Yi give us music well worth hearing, world-class orchestral music that goes its own way and reflects a melding of Asian and contemporary elements both convincing and at times quite exciting.’ – Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review
‘The music of Chen Yi is quite fascinating and offers a unique mesh of Eastern & Western sounds and traditions. …it is a most rewarding discovery.’ – BandWorld
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