About

Taiwanese-born pianist Liang-yu Wang has made numerous appearances as a soloist and collaborative pianist throughout the United States, Canada, Italy, France, South Africa, and Taiwan. Actively engaged in concert appearances at national and international venues, Ms. Wang has performed in the Morgan Library & Museum, the Richard B. Fisher Center, the Hudson Opera House, the National Cultural Center in Taiwan, the Welgemeend Hall in Cape Town, South Africa, and also in several unconventional performance venues such as the Woodbourne Correctional Facility, NY.

Ms. Wang has been featured as guest artist at several reputable chamber music organizations, including the Lev Aronson Legacy Festival (Dallas, TX), the Sonoran Chamber Music Series (Tempe, AZ), Red Rocks Music Festival (Sedona, AZ), and the Downtown Chamber Series (Phoenix, AZ). Other festival appearances include the Music Academy of the West, the Banff Arts Centre, the Schlern International Music Festival, and the Académie Musicale Internationale "Barbara Krakauer”. An accomplished chamber musician, Ms. Wang has collaborated with Maestro Leon Botstein, cellists Raphael Wallfisch, Thomas Landschoot, violinists Federico Agostini, Jorja Fllezanis, Joseph Swensen, Grigory Kalinovsky, clarinetist Todd Palmer, Baritone Robert Barefield, double bassist Catalin Rataru, Jazz pianist Andy Milne, and the members of Houston Symphony Orchestra, Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, and Phoenix Symphony Orchestra. Along with her active performing career, Ms. Wang has also been giving chamber music master classes both in US and in Taiwan, including Arizona State University and National Sun Yat Sen University, among others. As a cello-piano duo, Ms. Wang and Thomas Landschoot released their debut CD “Balabille: Cello Sonatas by Debussy, Poulenc & Chopin” on ArchiMusic in December 2011, which was nominated by the Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan as “The Best Classical Music Album” of the year.

From 2011 to 2013, Ms. Wang served as Visiting Assistant Professor (Collaborative Piano/String) at the Indiana University-Bloomington. Prior to her position at IU, Ms. Wang had been awarded the Post-Graduate Collaborative Piano Fellowship from the Bard Conservatory of Music, where she worked closely with the world-renowned soprano Dawn Upshaw, the artistic director of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Bard. Ms. Wang holds a Performer Diploma in Piano Performance from Indiana University-Bloomington, and received her M.M. and D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano from the Arizona State University. Ms. Wang had been on staff with the Eastern Music Festival and the Banff Arts Centre in the past summers. She recently joined the faculty at Western Illinois University School of Music in 2013.

www.liangyuwangpiano.com

Music

[CHAMBER MUSIC BEYOND DUO]
Beethoven: piano trio No.1 in C minor, Op.1-3
Brahms: piano trio in B major, Op.8
Brahms: piano quartet in C minor, Op.60
Brahms: trio for clarinet, cello and piano, Op.114
Mendelssohn: piano trio in D minor, Op.49
Mendelssohn: piano trio in in C minor, Op.66
R. Schumann: piano quintet in E-flat major, Op.44
Shostakovich: piano quintet in G minor, Op.57
Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D.965 (soprano, clarinet, piano)
Tchaikovsky: piano trio in A minor, Op.50
Andre Previn: four songs for soprano, cello and piano
Poulenc: Sextet for woodwinds & piano

[VIOLIN]
Bartok: Romanian folk dances for violin and piano
Bartok: sonata for violin and piano No.2
Bartok: Rhapsody No. 2
Beethoven: sonata for violin and piano in D major, Op.12-1
Beethoven: sonata for violin and piano in E-flat major, Op.12-3
Beethoven: sonata for violin and piano in G major, Op.30-3
Beethoven: sonata for violin and piano in A minor, Op.23
Beethoven: sonata for violin and piano in F minor, Op.24
Beethoven: sonata for violin and piano in A major, Op.30-1
Beethoven: sonata for violin and piano in C minor, Op.30-2
Beethoven: sonata for violin and piano in G major, Op.30-3
Beethoven: sonata for violin and piano in A major, Op.47 (Kreutzer)
Beethoven: sonata for violin and piano in G major, Op.96
Brahms: sonata for violin and piano in G major, Op.78
Brahms: sonata for violin and piano in A major, Op.100
Brahms: sonata for violin and piano in D minor, Op.108
Brahms: scherzo for violin and piano in c minor, WoO posth. 2
Grazyna Bacewicz: sonata for violin and piano No.4
Debussy: sonata for violin and piano
Debussy: La fille aux cheveus de lin
Debussy: Claire de lune
Dvorak: Songs my mother taught me (arr. By Fritz Kreisler)
Elgar: sonata for violin and piano in E minor, Op.82
Enescu: Impressions d'enfance (Childhood Impressions), Op.28
Franck: sonata for violin and piano in A major
Faure: sonata for violin and piano in A major, Op.13
Fonseca: sonata for violin and piano
Granados: Spanish dances (arr. By Fritz Kreisler)
Grieg: sonata for violin and piano in F major, Op.8
Grieg: sonata for violin and piano in c minor, Op.45
Heifetz: Estrellita
Janáček: sonata for violin and piano
Manuel De Falla: La vida breve. Danse Espagnole (arr. By Fritz Kreisler)
Mendelssohn: sonata for violin and piano in F major (1838)
Messiaen: Thème et variations for violin and piano
Mozart: sonata for violin and keyboard in G major, K.301
Mozart: sonata for violin and keyboard in E minor, K.304
Mozart: sonata for violin and keyboard in B-flat major, K.378
Mozart: sonata for violin and keyboard in G major, K.379
Mozart: sonata for violin and keyboard in E-flat major, K.481
Poulenc: sonata for violin and piano, Op.119
Prokofiev: sonata for violin and piano No.1 Op.80
Prokofiev: sonata for violin and piano No.2 Op.94
Ravel: sonata for violin and piano
R. Schumann: sonata for violin and piano No.1 in A minor Op.105
Schubert: sonata for violin and piano “DUO”
Schubert: Rondo brillant in B minor, D. 895
Strauss: sonata for violin and piano in E-flat major, Op.18
Suk: 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op.17

[VIOLONCELLO]
Bartok: Bartok: Romanian folk dances for cello and piano
Barber: sonata for cello and piano, Op.6
Beethoven: sonata for cello and piano No.1 in F major, Op.5 No.1
Beethoven: sonata for cello and piano No.2 in G major, Op.5 No.2
Beethoven: sonata for cello and piano No.3 in A major, Op.69
Beethoven: sonata for cello and piano No.4 in C major, Op.102 No.1
Beethoven: sonata for cello and piano No.5 in D major, Op.102 No.1
Beethoven: sonata for horn and piano in F major, Op.17 (transcribed for cello and piano)
Beethoven: seven variations for cello and piano in E flat major, WoO.46
Beethoven: variations for cello & piano in G major, WoO.45
Beethoven: variations for cello & piano in F major, Op.66
Brahms: sonata in E minor, Op.38
Brahms: sonata in F major, Op.99
Brahms: sonata in D minor, Op.78 (original for violin, transcribed for cello)
Chopin: sonata for cello and piano in G minor, Op.65
Debussy: sonata for cello and piano in D minor
Faure: Elegie Op.24
Frank: sonata for cello and piano in A major (original for violin, transcribed for cello)
Manuel de Falla: seven popular Spanish songs for cello and piano
Mendelssohn: sonata for cello and piano in B flat major, Op.45
Mendelssohn: sonata for cello and piano in D major, Op. 58
Myaskovsky: sonata for cello and piano No.1, Op.12
Popper: elfentanz, Op.39
Popper: Hungarian rhapsody
Poulenc: sonata for cello and piano, Op.143
Prokofiev: sonata for cello and piano in C major, Op.119
Rachmaninoff: sonata for cello and piano in G minor, Op.19
Rachmaninoff: vocalise for cello and piano
Reger: cello sonata in A minor, Op.116
Rostropovich: humoresque Op.5
Shostakovich: cello sonata in D minor, Op.40
Schubert: arppegione sonata for cello and piano, D.821
R. Schumann: five pieces in folk style for cello and piano, Op.102
R. Schumann: fantasy pieces for cello and piano, Op.73
R. Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Op.70
Strauss: sonata for cello and piano in F major, Op.6
Stravinsky: Italian suite for cello and piano
Vaughan Williams: six studies in English folk song for cello and piano
Webern: three pieces

[VIOLA]
Beethoven: Notturno in D major, Op.42
Bloch: Suite Hébraïque
Brahms: sonata for viola and piano in F minor, Op.120-1
Brahms: sonata for viola and piano in E-flat major, Op.120-2
Hindemith: sonata for viola and piano in F minor, Op.11-4
Hindemith: sonata for viola and piano in C major (1939)
Hummel: Potpourri (Fantasy), Op.94
Schubert: arppegione sonata for cello and piano, D.821 (transcribed for viola)
R. Schumann: Märchenbilder, Op.113
Shostakovich: viola sonata, Op.147
Vieuxtemps: Sonata for viola and piano, Op. 36

[CLARINET]
Berg: Op.5
Brahms: sonata for clarinet and piano in F minor, Op.120-1
Brahms: clarinet sonata in E-flat major, Op.102 No.2
Debussy: Premiere Rhapsody for Clarinet & Piano
Frank Nuyts: “Busyness as Usual” for clarinet & piano
Mozart: clarinet concerto in A major, K.622
Saint-Saens: sonata for clarinet and piano
R. Schumann: fantasy pieces for clarinet and piano, Op.73
R. Schumann: 3 romances, Op.94
Witold Lutoslavski: dance preludes for clarinet and piano
Poulenc: sonata for clarinet and piano
Weber: Grand Duo Concertant Op.48

[BASSOON]
Elgar: romance for bassoon and piano
Saint-Saens: bassoon sonata, Op.168
Dutilleux: Sarabande et Cortege

[FLUTE]
Bach: flute sonata in E-flat major, BWV 1031
Sofia Gubaidulina: allegro rustico for flute and piano
Sofia Gubaidulina: sounds of the forest for flute and piano
Frank Martin: Ballade for flute and piano
Martinu: sonata for flute and piano
Mozart: flute concerto in D major, K.314
Mozart: flute concerto in G major, K.313
Poulenc: sonata for flute and piano
Schubert: variations on “Trockne Blumen” for piano and flute
Schulhoff: sonata for flute and piano

[OBOE]
Mozart: oboe concerto in C major, K.314
Poulenc: oboe sonata, Op.185
R. Schumann: 3 Romances, Op.94
Saint-Saëns: sonata for oboe and piano

[NARRATION]
Poulenc - L' Histoire de Babar (Story of Babar) for piano and narrator

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