Chien And Díaz To Open Lee’s Presidential Concert Series Monday

  • Thursday, October 1, 2015
Gloria Chien
Gloria Chien

Lee University will welcome pianist Gloria Chien and cellist Andrés Díaz to Squires Recital Hall for the opening performance in Lee’s 24th annual Presidential Concert Series on Monday at 7:30 p.m. 

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Dr. Chien, who began playing piano at the age of five in her native Taiwan, has been called “a coat-of-many-colors pianist.” She holds a doctor of musical arts, a master’s, and a bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. She is a Steinway Artist and currently serves as an artist-in-residence at Lee. 

A prize winner of the World Piano Competition, Harvard Musical Association Award, and the San Antonio International Piano Competition, Dr. Chien has presented solo recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Harvard Musical Association, Sanibel Musical Festival, Caramoor Musical Festival, Salle Cortot in Paris, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She has been praised by “The Strad” for “super performances…accompanied with great character.” 

In 2009, Dr. Chien launched “String Theory,” a chamber music series in downtown Chattanooga, as its founder and artistic director. In 2010, she was appointed the director of the Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has participated there for six years. She has been a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2012, and now frequently plays at Alice Tully Hall in New York as well as other venues around the country with CMS on Tour.  

Since winning first prize in the 1986 Naumburg International Cello Competition, Mr. Díaz has exhilarated critics and audiences with his intense and charismatic performances.  

Mr. Díaz’s numerous orchestral appearances include return engagements with the Atlanta Symphony, the American Symphony at Carnegie Hall, the Boston Pops, and the National Symphony Orchestra, among others. His most recent recordings feature Martinu, Lutoslawski, Rachmaninoff, and six Bach Suites. He has toured nationally with the Santa Fe and Spoleto festivals.  

Mr. Díaz is currently an active member of the Díaz String Trio with violinist Andrés Cardenes and violist Robert Diaz. He is a professor of cello at Southern Methodist University and holds the Koerner Chair in Cello at The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. 

Tickets for the performance will be available at the Lee University Box Office in the Dixon Center, or by contacting 614-8343, one week prior to the concert, between 3-6 p.m. 

For more information about the Presidential Concert Series, please visit http://www.leeuniversity.edu/pcs or call the School of Music at 614-8240.

Andrés Díaz
Andrés Díaz
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