We are hosting our Thursday Lunchtime Concerts at 1.10pm, doors open at 12.30pm for refreshments. The concert will be in person and live-streamed on YouTube, link is here - https://youtu.be/u2ZuGocGC3c. Emily Bosenius and Yuzhang Li shall be performing on Violin and Piano
Programme:
ELEANOR ALBERGA OBE NO-MAN’S-LAND LULLABY
WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI RECITATIVO E ARIOSO
RICHARD STRAUSS VIOLIN SONATA IN E FLAT MAJOR, OP. 18 I. ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO II. IMPROVISATION: ANDANTE CANTABILE III. FINALE: ANDANTE-ALLEGRO
Yuzhang Li’s Biography
Chinese pianist Yuzhang Li became one of the ten semi-finalists in the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2021. She started her postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music with full scholarship in the same year. Recently, she became a medalist in the Hilton Head International Piano Competition. As the first prize winner in the Futian Cup Piano Competition in China, she performed Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 with Shenzhen Philharmonic and conductor Xieyang Chen.
With a natural wealth of musicality, Yuzhang began her music life at the age of four. At the age of fourteen, she debuted with a solo recital, in which she performed a bold repertoire - a full set of Etude Tableaux by Rachmaninoff. Carrying a strong capability, her other performance engagements included concerts at the St Michael's Sittingbourne in UK, Yongsan Concert Hall in South Korea, Bechstein KONZERTFLÜGEL and the Harz Classix Music Festival in Germany, and People’s University, Sichuan Conservatory Concert Hall, Shenzhen Concert Hall, and HUAFA Performance Theatre in China.
Prizes and awards she garnered in competitions, including the second prize in the “Grotrian” International Piano Competition, the Special Performance Award in the Wiesbaden International Piano Competition, the first prize of the Seiler Cup Piano Competition, the Golden prize in Huanglong Piano Competition, and the second prize in the Steinway Piano Competition, has also proved her to be an discernable musician.
Aside from the performances she gave and prizes she won in competitions, she was also awarded the China National Scholarship and the “Tan XiaoWei” Scholarship, resulting from her excellent performance in both piano playing and academic study.
In 2013, Yuzhang started with Professor Jinsong Xian at the Xinghai Conservatory Affiliated Middle School, Guangzhou. In 2017, she was admitted by the best mark to the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, studying with Professor Danwen Wei - one of the last two students of Horowitz, and Jiajia Shi – a student of Gabriel Amiràs. In 2021, she started with Professor Ian Fountain at the Royal Academy of Music.
Emily Bosenius Biography
Emily Bosenius recently completed her BMus (Hons) from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music, studying with Jonathan Crow, Concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. There Emily won all major prizes for her instrument, winning the Concerto Competition and Felix Galimir Chamber Award, leading the Symphony, Chamber, and Opera Orchestras, and upon graduating received the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto Centennial Scholarship and the Gerhard Kander Graduating Award for Violin for the highest graduating violin mark. Past teachers include Jacques Israelievitch, C.M., former concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony, and Marie Bérard, current concertmaster of the Canadian Opera Company. Emily is now pursuing her Master of Arts in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music on scholarship, studying with Michael Foyle and Maureen Smith, where she performs side-by-side with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and holds principal positions in the Symphony and Opera Orchestra projects. Emily performs on a 1794 Giovanni Battista Ceruti violin, generously on loan from the Royal Academy.
Emily has performed across Canada, the United States, and Europe, and in 2018 toured with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, with performances broadcast on CBC and BBC Radio 3, and toured side-by-side with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in 2017, performing at La Maison Symphonique de Montréal, Roy Thompson Hall, and the National Arts Center. Emily attended the 2021 Aspen Music Festival on Fellowship, and has taken part in London’s Bach in Leipzig Festival, the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute, Colorado College Summer Music Festival, Northwestern Violin Institute, and the Orford and Domaine Forget International Festivals.
Emily was awarded the Canadian Music Competition's Judge’s Favourite prize for consecutive years, and as a grand prize winner of multiple concerto competitions, she is looking forward to returning to Canada for performances of the Beethoven and Korngold Concerti with the Guelph Symphony Orchestra, the Oakville Chamber Orchestra, and the University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra.