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Ravel, Maurice
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Le tombeau de Couperin: no 5, Menuet
Ravel, Maurice
Steinway & Sons/30191
Le tombeau de Couperin
1.
Le tombeau de Couperin: I. Prélude
2.
Le tombeau de Couperin: II. Fugue
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Le tombeau de Couperin: III. Forlane
4.
Le tombeau de Couperin: IV. Rigaudon
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Le tombeau de Couperin: V. Menuet
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Le tombeau de Couperin: VI. Toccata
Ravel, Maurice
Steinway & Sons/30179
Sonatine for Piano
1.
Sonatine: I. Modéré
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Sonatine: II. Mouvement de menuet
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Sonatine: III. Animé
Ravel, Maurice
Steinway & Sons/30179
Waltz for Piano in A flat major, Op. 38
Scriabin, Alexander
Steinway & Sons/30029
Menuet antique
Ravel, Maurice
Steinway & Sons/30029
Sonata for Piano no 4 in F sharp major, Op. 30
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I. Andante
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II. Prestissimo volando
Scriabin, Alexander
Steinway & Sons/30029
Valses nobles et sentimentales
1.
I. Modéré, très franc
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II. Assez lent, avec une expression intense
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III. Modéré
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IV. Assez animé
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V. Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime
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VI. Assez vif
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VII. Moins vif
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VIII. Épilogue. Lent
Ravel, Maurice
Steinway & Sons/30029
Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn
Ravel, Maurice
Steinway & Sons/30029
Prélude for Piano in A minor
Ravel, Maurice
Steinway & Sons/30029
Sonata for Piano no 5 in F sharp major, Op. 53
Scriabin, Alexander
Steinway & Sons/30029
La valse
Ravel, Maurice
Steinway & Sons/30029
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Steinway Sunsets
Release Date:
12/03/2021
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Steinway & Sons
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30191
Ravel: Le Tombeau De Couperin, Sonatine / Sean Chen
Release Date:
08/06/2021
Label:
Steinway & Sons
Catalog:
30179
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1
La Valse / Sean Chen
Release Date:
03/25/2014
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Steinway & Sons
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30029
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Biography
A “thoughtful musician well beyond his years” (The Republic), pianist Sean Chen shares his “alluring, colorfully shaded renditions” (New York Times) and “genuinely sensitive” (LA Times) playing with audiences around the world in solo and chamber recitals, concerto performances, and masterclasses. After winning the 2013 American Pianists Awards, placing third at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, and being named a 2015 Annenberg Fellow, Mr. Chen is now a Millsap Artist in Residence at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance.
Mr. Chen has performed with many prominent orchestras, including the Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Kansas City, San Diego, Knoxville, Hartford, Louisiana Philharmonic, Milwaukee, North Carolina, Pasadena, Phoenix, Santa Fe, and New West Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Chamber Orchestras of Philadelphia, Indianapolis, and South Bay. He has collaborated with such esteemed conductors as Leonard Slatkin, Michael Stern, Gerard Schwarz, Nicholas McGegan, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Marcelo Lehninger, and James Judd. Solo recitals have brought him to major venues worldwide, including Jordan Hall in Boston, Subculture in New York City, the American Art Museum at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Salle Cortot in Paris.
Mr. Chen has served on the juries of notable piano competitions, including the Thailand International Piano Competition, West Virginia International Piano Competition, Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists, and Steinway competitions around the country. Given his natural inclination for teaching and approachable personality, Mr. Chen is particularly in demand for residencies that combine performances with master classes, school concerts, and artist conversations, which have brought him to such institutions as the Cleveland School of Music, Indiana University, University of British Columbia, University of Houston Moores School, Spotlight Awards at the Los Angeles Music Center, Young Artist World Piano Festival, and several Music Teachers’ Associations throughout the country.
Mr. Chen has been featured in both live and recorded performances on WQXR (New York), WFMT (Chicago), WGBH (Boston), WFYI (Indianapolis), KPR (Kansas), NPR’s From the Top, and American Public Media’s Performance Today. Additional media coverage includes a profile featured on the cover of Clavier Companion in May 2015, recognition as “One to Watch” by International Piano Magazine in March 2014, and inclusion in WFMT’s “30 Under 30.”
His CD releases include La Valse, a solo recording on the Steinway label, hailed for “penetrating artistic intellect” (Audiophile Audition); a live recording from the Cliburn Competition released by harmonia mundi, praised for his “ravishing tone and cogently contoured lines” (Gramophone); an album of Michael Williams’s solo piano works on the Parma label; and a recent album of Flute, Oboe, and Piano repertoire titled KaleidosCoping with colleagues Michael Gordon and Celeste Johnson. Mr. Chen has also contributed to the catalog of Steinway’s Spirio system.
A multifaceted musician, Mr. Chen also transcribes, composes, and improvises. His transcriptions of such orchestral works as Ravel’s La Valse, Mozart’s Overture to the Marriage of Figaro, and the Adagio movement of Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, have been received with glowing acclaim and enthusiasm, and his encore improvisations are lauded as “genuinely brilliant” (Dallas Morning News). His Prelude in F# was commissioned by fellow pianist Eric Zuber, and subsequently performed in New York. An advocate of new music, he has also collaborated with several composers and performed their works, including Lisa Bielawa, Jennifer Higdon, Michael Williams, Nicco Athens, Michael Gilbertson, and Reinaldo Moya.
Born in Florida, Mr. Chen grew up in the Los Angeles area of Oak Park, California. His impressive achievements before college include the NFAA ARTSweek, Los Angeles Music Center’s Spotlight, and 2006 Presidential Scholars awards. These honors combined with diligent schoolwork facilitated offers of acceptance by MIT, Harvard, and The Juilliard School. Choosing to study music, Mr. Chen earned his Bachelor and Master of Music from Juilliard, meanwhile garnering several awards, most notably the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. He received his Artist Diploma in 2014 at the Yale School of Music as a George W. Miles Fellow. His teachers include Hung-Kuan Chen, Tema Blackstone, Edward Francis, Jerome Lowenthal, and Matti Raekallio.
Mr. Chen is a Steinway Artist.
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