[IMC] Krannert Center Debut Artist 2013 Announced

Mon Apr 1 17:00:53 UTC 2013

For Immediate Release: April 1, 2013

For More Information Contact:
Bridget Lee-Calfas, Advertising and Publicity Director
bklee at illinois.edu<mailto:bklee at illinois.edu>

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 2013 Debut Artist Announced:
Moye Chen, piano<http://www.krannertcenter.com/performance.aspx?id=20127199105086128174107143>

The dual roles of Krannert Center as a professional performing arts center and a training facility for students reflect its mission to nurture excellence in the arts through education and presentation. Krannert Center’s long-standing commitment to young artists is uniquely strengthened by its affiliation with the University of Illinois and the School of Music.

In 1984, Dean Jack McKenzie of the College of Fine and Applied Arts recognized that the performing caliber of many students in the School of Music equaled that of some of the young professional artists featured at Krannert Center. McKenzie, at the time Acting Director of Krannert Center, and Robert Bays, then Director of the School of Music, agreed that the School of Music and Krannert Center together would choose a student through audition and that Krannert Center would present the student in recital with a full professional contract. Beginning in 1990, the Krannert Center Debut Artist recital became a part of the Sunday Salon Series, a series specifically devoted to the presentation of young artists in which an intimate atmosphere is created by seating audience members onstage with the performers. All Krannert Center Debut Artists, since the very first in 1984, have remained active performers and educators. For these artists, the award has carried national impact because of Krannert Center’s reputation for excellence.

The 2013 winner, Moye Chen, earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and an Artist Diploma at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and currently studies with Professor William Heiles at the University of Illinois School of Music. An accomplished soloist, Chen has performed at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the Beijing International Contemporary Music Festival, the Shanghai Spring Music Festival, and the Tongyeong International Music Festival. He is a winner of the Seattle International Piano Competition, the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition, and the Palatino Piano and Composition Competition. His playing also earned him an Audience Favorite Award and a Best Performance of a Work by Franz Liszt Award at the Seattle International Piano Competition.

On his Krannert Center Debut Artist recital, Chen will perform Scarlatti’s Sonata in G Minor, K. 8 and Sonata in D Major, K. 214; Beethoven’s Bagatelles, Op. 33; Liszt’s Sonetto 104 del Petrarca and Hungarian Rhapsody No. 19 (arr. Vladimir Horowitz); Scriabin’s Poème in F-sharp Major, Op. 32, No. 1 and Sonata No. 10, Op. 70; and Rachmaninoff’s Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 36 (1940 version).

Tickets and Performance Information:

Krannert Center Debut Artist: Moye Chen, piano<http://www.krannertcenter.com/performance.aspx?id=20127199105086128174107143>

Sunday, April 21 at 3pm

Foellinger Great Hall

Flex: 37 / SC 32 / Stu 15 / UI & Yth 10

Single: 39 / SC 34 / Stu 15 / UI & Yth 10

Balcony: 10 / UI & Yth 5

Tickets for stage seating are currently unavailable; to join the waiting list, patrons may visit KrannertCenter.com<http://www.krannertcenter.com/> or call 217/333-6280. Balcony seating is still available; patrons are asked to please contact the Ticket Office at 217/333-6280 or 800/KCPATIX (527-2849) for more information. Patrons who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, or speech-impaired may also make inquiries via TTY at 217/333-9714.

Past Debut Artist Winners:

April 28, 1991            Gregory Mason, accompanist, joined by tenor Mark

                                                Hamman, soprano Janet Robb, soprano Mary Ann

                                                Kyle, and soprano Julianne Cross

May 3, 1992               Margaret Donaghue, clarinet, with Victoria Demaree, piano

April 25, 1993            Layna Chianakas, mezzo-soprano, with Gregory Mason, piano

April 24, 1994            Horia Mihail, piano

April 23, 1995            Irina Muresanu, violin, with Joseph Bognar, piano

April 28, 1996            Diana Popescu, piano

April 20, 1997            Catalin Rotaru, double bass, with Diana Popescu, piano

May 3, 1998               Harold Gray Meers, tenor, with Dewitt Tipton, piano

May 2, 1999               Samir Golescu, piano

April 30, 2000            Owen Rockwell, percussion, with Britton Plourde, alto flute

April 8, 2001              Kyung-A Yang, piano

April 28, 2002            Alda Dizdari, violin, with Magi Dizdari, piano

April 6, 2003              Lori Williams, soprano, with Jeffrey Peterson, piano

May 2, 2004               Wae-Jane Chen, piano

April 17, 2005            Ann Kai-An Wu, piano

April 23, 2006            Co-winners: Bomi Lim, piano, and Rochelle Sennet, piano

            Honorable Mention: Jane Boxall, marimba

            (Featured in Afterglow on April 13, 2006)

April 15, 2007            Thomas Kronholz, piano

April 27, 2008            Yu-Chi Tai, piano

April 26, 2009            Melissa Davis, mezzo-soprano, with Sun-Hee Kim, piano

Honorable Mention: Phil Doyle, tenor saxophone, and Henning Schröder,
alto saxophone

(Featured in Krannert Center 40th Anniversary Celebration, May 1, 2009)

April 25, 2010            Chen-Yu Huang, harp

April 17, 2011            Co-winners: Patrycja Likos, cello, and Chu-Chun Yen, piano

April 15, 2012            Wuna Meng, piano

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