A Piano Solo Recital by Foo Mei Yi and Yi-Chih Lu

Meet The Performer - Foo Mei Yi

Winner of the 2013 BBC Music Magazine’s Best Newcomer award, Foo Mei Yi is an internationally acclaimed pianist celebrated for her eclectic repertoire and adventurous artistry. She performs across five continents with top orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony and appears at major festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, Ultraschall Festival Berlin, Born Creative Tokyo, Punkt Festival Norway, and Southbank Centre’s ‘Music of Today’. Her performances have garnered rave reviews from The Times, The Independent, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and Klassik Magazine.

A passionate advocate for new music, Mei Yi has worked with leading composers including Unsuk Chin, Dai Fujikura and Chris Paul Harman, releasing world-premiere recordings of their works on Odradek, Sony and Naxos. She drives multidisciplinary collaborations across the arts and is the Founder and Music Director of the Nine Arts Festival in Negeri Sembilan.

Born in Malaysia and now based in the UK, Mei Yi teaches at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and was formerly Artist-in-Residence at Maynooth University in Ireland. An alumna of the Royal College of Music, she is also an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music and a Foundation Fellow of Wells Cathedral School. In recognition of her artistic contributions, she was awarded the Setiawan Tuanku Muhriz medal in Malaysia.

"Her genius is now unquestionable"

Meet The Performer - Yi-Chih Lu

Yi-Chih Lu, one of the most brilliant rising stars among the young generation of Taiwanese pianists, is the winner of Maria Canals, Sendai, Hummel and other ten piano competitions. His CD "My Chopin; My Brahms" has been awarded the Gold Melody Award for the "Best Interpreter of Classical Music". 2016 summer, while LU is touring at the west coast of America, Washington State King County announced the 9th July 2016 as "Yi-Chih Lu Day", to recognize his achievement in piano performance.

He has been invited to give piano recitals in America, Europe and Asia, at such important venues as Musikverein in Vienna, Berlin Philharmoie, National Concert Hall in Taipei, and has appeared as soloist with important orchestras including Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, Buxthehude Jugend Orchester, BerlinClassicPlayers, Sendai Philharmonic, Sendai City Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Metropolitan Orchestra, Taiwan Philharmonic (NSO), Taipei Century Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Sun Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Philharmonic Youth Symphony Orchestra, and Arad Philharmonic, among others.

Born in Taiwan, Mr. Lu started the piano at the age of five and during his formative years he studied with Klaus Hellwig at the University of the Arts Berlin (Konzertexamen). In 2006, he received his Master Degree from the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and the Vienna Cziffra Foundation awarded him the "Cziffra Prize", in recognition of his outstanding performance of G. Cziffra's Compositions.

He is now holding assistant professorships at the Taipei National University of the Arts.

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