Pianist Chelsea Wang will perform on Saturday March 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Montante Cultural Center. The event is free and open to the public.
Chelsea Wang, born in 1993, is the Second Prize Winner of the 2012 Sixth New York International Piano Competition, a biennial event presented under the auspices of The Stecher and Horowitz Foundation. From West Des Moines, Iowa, she has garnered many national and international awards. As a Prize-Winner of the New Orleans International Piano Institute Concerto Competition, the Des Moines Symphony Young Artist Concerto Competition, The Waterloo Cedar-Falls Symphony Young Artist Competition, and Fort Dodge Area Symphony Young Artist Competition, she appeared as soloist with these orchestras.
Chelsea performed at the 2010 and 2011 Piano Texas International Academy and Festival, formerly known as the Cliburn Piano Institute, as one of the youngest pianists. She participated in the Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival in Italy in 2011, and appeared on NPR’s radio show, “From the Top” hosted by Christopher O’Riley.
In 2008, Chelsea received the Presidential Academic Achievement and Excellence Award. She volunteers at various community activities and senior homes, and in 2011, was honored as an Iowa Youth of the Year. Chelsea currently studies with Meng-Chieh Liu and Ignat Solzhenitsyn at the Curtis Institute of Music.
The program will include works by Chopin, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Kapustin.
For more information, call the Fine Arts Office at x2542 or visit canisius.edu/artscanisius.
Submitted by: Martha Malkiewicz, adjunct professor, fine arts/music
