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Brian Lin, Pianist
Tuesday, March 3, 7 – 8 p.m.
22-year-old pianist
Brian Lin
is a 2014
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate
Arts Award Recipient. He is one of
only twenty up-and-coming artists in
the U.S. to receive this prestigious
award, which enables him to continue
his studies at Juilliard. Well-respected
pianist Matti Raekallio describes Mr.
Lin as “a tremendous virtuoso with
an appealing richness of musical
imagination and a performer’s courage
that immediately capture the listener.”
In 2007, Mr. Lin won First Prize in the
Intermediate Concerto Division of the
Virginia Waring International Piano
Competition. Other top prizes include
the Lennox International Young
Artists Competition, the Crescendo
International Music Competition, and
theSacschaGorodnitzki Memorial Prize
at the 2014 Hilton Head International
Piano Competition.
Eduardo Delgado, Pianist
Saturday, February 21, 4 – 5 p.m.
Argentinian-born
Eduardo Delgado
began his early training with his mother,
followed by studies with Arminda
Canteros in Rosario. He then continued
with Sergio Lorenzi in Venice, Vicente
Scaramuzza in Buenos Aires, Dora
Zaslavsky of the Manhattan School
of Music, and Rosina Lhévinne of
the Juilliard School. His numerous
awards and prizes include the Vladimir
Horowitz Award and grants from the
Mozarteum Argentino, Martha Baird
Rockefeller, and the Concert Artists
Guild.
Eduardo Delgado is in constant local,
national, and international demand as
a noted pedagogue, lecturer, and artist
teacher of master classes. He has been
on the artist piano faculties of several
universities in Japan and California. He
is currently a full professor of piano at
California State University, Fullerton.
This performance is made possible by a generous
gift from Alfred and Gail Bryman.
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