Solo Piano Competition Winner’s Recital
Hahn Hall, Music Academy
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Date & Time
Tue, Mar 10 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Address (map)
1070 Fairway Road., Montecito.
Venue (website)
Hahn Hall, Music Academy
Music Academy of the West presents pianist Elliot Wuu in recital.
PROGRAM
BACH Capriccio sopra la lonrananza del suo fratello dilettissimo
AMY WILLIAMS Piano Portraits (premiere, Music Academy commission)
- Ursula
- Yvar
- Liz
- Helena
- Lukas
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 18 in E-flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3
- Allegro
- Scherzo. Allegretto vivace
- Minuet. Moderato e grazioso
- Presto con fuoco
SCHUBERT Wanderer Fantasy in C Major, Op. 15
Elliot Wuu has been selected as the winner of the Music Academy’s third annual Solo Piano Competition Winner Recital Tour in partnership with Steinway & Sons, winning The Luria Foundation Prize of $5,000, a multicity recital tour, career consultation with music career experts, 21C Media Group, and an innovation fund to use towards recital programming and commissioning.
Jurors included the Music Academy Director of Collaborative Piano Jonathan Feldman, Steinway & Sons Manager of Concert-Artist Services Benjamin Salisbury, Music Academy vocal coach and pianist Tamara Sanikidze, and composer Amy Williams, who has written a new work Piano Portraits to be premiered on the tour.
The Music Academy of the West’s Solo Piano Competition Recital Tour is sponsored by the Luria Foundation.
Mr. Wuu’s 2020 recital tour will also include appearances at the National Gallery in Washington D.C. (Friday, March 27, 12:10 pm), and the Chicago Cultural Center as part of the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series (Wednesday, April 1, 12:15 pm). The Chicago recital will be broadcast live by WFMT 98.7 FM and streamed live at wfmt.com.
2019 SOLO PIANO COMPETITION WINNER
(’19) solo piano
ELLIOT WUU 20, born in Fremont, California, is an undergraduate at The Juilliard School, under the tutelage of Robert McDonald. The recently named Young Steinway Artist and 2018 Gilmore Young Artist is also a 2014-2016 Young Scholar of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation and a MTAC Young Artist Guild Member. Mr. Wuu also appeared on NPR’s From the Top.