At 19 years old, the youngest participant in the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Gold Medalist Haochen Zhang gave his debut recital at the Shanghai Music Hall at the age of five, performing all of Bach’s two-part inventions, as well as sonatas by Haydn and Mozart. He has concertized throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States, and has performed with the China National Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.

Concert Program:  Subject to Change

Ludwig von Beethoven     
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op 110 (20’)
 Moderato cantabile molto espressivo     Allegro molto     Adagio ma non troppo     Fuga: Allegro ma non troppo

Mason Bates     
White Lies for Lomax (6’)

Maurice Ravel     
Gaspard de la Nuit (19’)     Ondine     Le Gibet     Scarbo

Intermission

Johannes Brahms     
Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 (26’)

Franz Liszt      
Spanish Rhapsody (13’)