Clinton, NY – Hamilton College Performing Arts presents a solo piano recital by Ying Li on Sunday, February 18 at 3pm in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center.
Twenty-five-year-old Chinese pianist Ying Li is the First Prize winner of the 2021 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, as well as recipient of The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Prize and the Tri-I Noon Recitals Prize. She has received top awards in numerous national and international competitions including the inaugural Antonio Mormone International Prize, Sarasota Artist Series Piano Competition, Brevard Music Festival, and was a finalist at Concours musical international de Montréal.
Ying began piano lessons at age five in China, and was a student at the Elementary School division of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, then she moved to Philadelphia in 2012, at age fourteen, to study at the Curtis Institute of Music with Jonathan Biss and Seymour Lipkin. After receiving the Bachelor of Music degree at Curtis Institute in 2019, she received her Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School in New York with Robert McDonald, and continues her studies with McDonald at the Juilliard School’s Artist Diploma Program.
The Hamilton College program will include Mozart’s D major Rondo, Chopin Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin and Beethoven Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, “Moonlight.”
This concert is free and open to the public. All seating is general admission. For more information call the box office at (315) 982-8233.
