Pure joy. Innocent playfulness. Dances, fairytales, lullabies, and fantasies - the kind of fun that reminds us of our childlike wonder. Watch two friends share one piano.
Program:
Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose Suite (Ma mère l'Oye) (1910)
Franz Schubert: Fantasie in F minor for Piano 4 hands, D.940 (1828)
Anderson & Roe: Blue Danube Fantasy: A New Account of the Blue Danube Waltzes (2007)
Anderson & Roe: Brahms Lullaby (2018)
About the artists:
Californian pianist Danielle Braga is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She received a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance with a minor in piano pedagogy. Danielle studied performance and pedagogy under the tutelage of Peter Takács and Dr. Andrea McAlister. She received the Carol Nott Piano Pedagogy Prize, awarded to an outstanding graduating senior for continued study in piano pedagogy.
Danielle’s performance career has taken her from Carnegie Hall and Segerstrom Hall in the U.S., to the White Hall in Tallinn, Estonia, to the Union of Composers Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia. Danielle pursues classical piano performance and music education, working in San Francisco to engage the community in musical education and inspiration.
Pianist Tin Yi Chelsea Wong’s international career spans a wide variety of performance spaces. Appearances include San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, Grace Cathedral, Salzburg Wienersaal, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
An advocate of contemporary music, she premiered many new works across the Bay Area. With a focus on extended techniques, Chelsea Wong invented the Harmonic Capo to create new possibilities for the instrument, and performs on the Liberated Piano. She is the founder of Atelier Kromatica, and hosts an annual Piano Beach Bonfire at Ocean Beach, San Francisco.
Pure joy. Innocent playfulness. Dances, fairytales, lullabies, and fantasies - the kind of fun that reminds us of our childlike wonder. Watch two friends share one piano.
Program:
Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose Suite (Ma mère l'Oye) (1910)
Franz Schubert: Fantasie in F minor for Piano 4 hands, D.940 (1828)
Anderson & Roe: Blue Danube Fantasy: A New Account of the Blue Danube Waltzes (2007)
Anderson & Roe: Brahms Lullaby (2018)
About the artists:
Californian pianist Danielle Braga is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She received a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance with a minor in piano pedagogy. Danielle studied performance and pedagogy under the tutelage of Peter Takács and Dr. Andrea McAlister. She received the Carol Nott Piano Pedagogy Prize, awarded to an outstanding graduating senior for continued study in piano pedagogy.
Danielle’s performance career has taken her from Carnegie Hall and Segerstrom Hall in the U.S., to the White Hall in Tallinn, Estonia, to the Union of Composers Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia. Danielle pursues classical piano performance and music education, working in San Francisco to engage the community in musical education and inspiration.
Pianist Tin Yi Chelsea Wong’s international career spans a wide variety of performance spaces. Appearances include San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts, Grace Cathedral, Salzburg Wienersaal, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
An advocate of contemporary music, she premiered many new works across the Bay Area. With a focus on extended techniques, Chelsea Wong invented the Harmonic Capo to create new possibilities for the instrument, and performs on the Liberated Piano. She is the founder of Atelier Kromatica, and hosts an annual Piano Beach Bonfire at Ocean Beach, San Francisco.
