Presented by The Weill Cornell Music & Medicine
Jian Shi, Piano
The New Sounds of the US and China
Friday, October 26, 2018
8 PM
Weill Recital Hall
Jian Shi (MD, Ph.D. candidate) will make his Carnegie Hall debut with a program that features contemporary works by American and Chinese composers, including two world premieres. Mr.Shi attended the Central South University Xiangya Medical School, Weill Cornell Medicine, and the Juilliard School. He is a member of the Chinese Musicians’ Association and New York Piano Society and served as a jury member for the 11th International Frederic Chopin Competition for Young Pianists.
Performers
Jian Shi, Piano
Program
TAN DUN Eight Memories in Watercolor
MASON BATES White Lies for Lomax
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue (arr. Wasserman)
HERMANN Concert Etude "North by Northwest" (World Premiere)
JIAN SHI After Reading Walden by Henry David Thoreau (World Premiere)
And works by Christopher Theofanidis, Zhongke Shi, John Corigliano, Chen Qigang, Jennifer Higdon, Qu Wei, Sebastian Currier, Wang Jianshong, and Dave Grusin