[318] Award-Winning Pianist Chih-Long HU Sets Free Concert At MTSU

AWARD-WINNING PIANIST CHIH-LONG HU SETS FREE CONCERT AT MTSU
Performance Planned for Feb. 23 in Wright Music Building on Campus

FOR RELEASE: Feb. 16, 2011
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493, tmusselm@mtsu.edu

MURFREESBORO—International award-winning pianist Dr. Chih-Long Hu will perform in a free public recital on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m. in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
A native of Taiwan, Hu has won numerous awards for his artistry, including the Taipei National Concert Hall Arising Star and the Chi-Mei Artist Award, and prizes from the Mauro Monopoli International Piano Competition in Italy, Concurs Internacional De Piano D'Escaldes-Engordany in Andorra, Takamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan and the Russian Music International Piano Competition in San Jose, Calif.
Dr. Lynn Rice-See, the coordinator of keyboard studies at the MTSU School of Music, said Hu will perform works by Frédéric Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Franz Liszt.
“I am particularly excited that Dr. Hu will perform the Rachmaninoff etudes in his program,” said Rice-See. “My first experience hearing him was a performance of the Rachmaninoff B-flat Minor Sonata in 2008, and it was indeed memorable.”
An active pianist, Hu has performed extensively in Asia, Europe and throughout North America, appearing as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. His performances have been broadcast in "Performance Today" through National Public Radio stations across the country and televised in Taiwan, China and Japan. His CD "Formosa Caprices" received critical acclaim and was nominated as “Best Crossover Album,” along with Hu as “Best Performer,” for the 2009 Golden Melody Awards—the Taiwanese equivalent of the Grammys.
Hu has been a member of the music faculty at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City since 2006.
For more information on Hu’s Feb. 23 performance or other concerts by the MTSU School of Music, please call 615-898-2493 or click on the “Concert Calendar” link at www.mtsumusic.com.

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IN BRIEF: International award-winning pianist Dr. Chih-Long Hu will perform in a free public recital on Wednesday, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m. in the T. Earl Hinton Music Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus. Dr. Lynn Rice-See, the coordinator of keyboard studies at the MTSU School of Music, said Hu will perform works by Frédéric Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Franz Liszt. For more information on Hu’s Feb. 23 performance or other concerts by the MTSU School of Music, please call 615-898-2493 or click on the “Concert Calendar” link at www.mtsumusic.com.

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