Tien Hsieh with Piano Transcriptions

Tien Hseih makes her career as a recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician. She has performed in all corners of the world and made her New York Recital Debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. She has a Master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music, and her latest recording is "Bach and Beethven: Mostly Transcriptions 2" which hit #1 Best Srller on Amazon.com twice in the year it was released and remained on the bestseller list for two consecutive months in the classical keyboard and instrumental categories.

Tonight, Hseih plays transcriptions and other piano favorites, in-between talking with Steve about everything from Skagway, Alaska, to cruise ships, to television appearances

Special thanks to Hana Janatova and the Mundi Project for helping arrange tonight's performance.

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Job Salazar Fonseca & Desiree Gonzalez Garza

Desiree Gonzalez Garza and Job Salazar play selections from the work of Mexican composer Manuel Ponce. 

Desiree is an Associate Private Instructor at the University of Utah's Preparatory Division and currently serves as the OC Tanner Scholar. Job Salazar has graduate degrees from the Boston Music Conservatory and has played with the Orchestra of Indian Hill, Cape Ann Symphony, and Boston Lyric Opera. Recently he's moved to Salt Lake where he teaches provately and plays with various ensembles.

Desiree: Piano

Job: violin

Repertoire: PONCE; Cancion de Otono (Autumn Song), Romanzetta, Jeunesse, Sonata Breve, Estrellita - 

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Pianist Chi Ho Han, Bachauer Silver Medalist

A pianist with "discipline and poetry at his fingertips" [Bachtrack], Chi Ho Han most recently completed and ranked in the 2016 Queen Elizabeth International Music Competition in Brussels, but has won awards and competitions all over the world, all throughout his career. He's currently a postgraduate student at the University for Music, Theater and Media in Hannover Germany.

Tonight Chi Ho plays beautiful music, some of which from his brand new album "Chopin and Schumann: Piano Works", and chats with Steve about festivals, practicing, and the toy pianos of childhood.

Special thanks to the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and Joanne Rowland for helping arrange this performance.

Repertoire:
SCHUMANN Widmung; CHOPIN Prelude Op. 24 No. 15 "Raindrop"; SCHUMANN Kreisleriana Op. 16 No. 2

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Barlow Bradford conducts the Utah Chamber Artists

This performance is the last hurrah for the choir before they jet off to Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic on tour. They’ll be gone a little over a week and perform in a different historical church each night. 

This isn’t the first time the choir’s packed up and crossed an ocean. They’ve previously toured in England (where they sung at London’s St. Paul Cathedral), in France (where they sung at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris) and in Israel (where they performed with the Israel Chamber Orchestra). They’ve also toured stateside in Utah and Idaho; and California at the invitation of the Crystal Cathedral. 

Barlow Bradford founded the ensemble in 1991 and has conducted the choir ever since. 

Repertoire: BUCHENBERG Du bist der Herr, unser Gott; LAURIDSEN En Une Seule Fleur; ESENVALDS Evening; BRADFORD All Through the Night; HOGAN The Battle of Jericho; BRAHMS Lullaby 

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Michael Lucarelli -- Classical Guitar

Michael Lucarelli is a classical guitarist and composer who has been performing throughout the United States for more than 30 years. His music videos on YouTube have garnered more than 20 million views collectively, an amount unheard of for a classical guitarist. He has a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Utah and a Masters in guitar performance from the University of Arizona.

In our studio tonight he chats with host Steven Kapp Perry about what it means to be an artist and composer, some of the locations of his videos, and some of the greatest comments his videos have received. We took some of our own, too! 

Repertoire: PIAZZOLLA Verano Porteno (Buenos Aires Summer); SCHUBERT Ave Maria; TARREGA La Paloma; LUCARELLI (original compositions) Red Sky, Starting Over, Rondo

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University of Utah Faculty Ensemble

If you’re a viola player, a lover of musical history, or even just a fan of baroque music, then today is your lucky day! We’ll be hearing not just one, not just two, but three different kinds of violas—including one with way more strings than you think it could have. We’ll also feature some baroque vocals and a harpsichord for good measure.

Our guests include Dr. Robert Baldwin, Director of Orchestral Activities and professor of music at the University of Utah, and Music Director of the Salt Lake Symphony.  He’ll be playing viola and viola d’amore, and he’s brought with him:

Kirsten Gunlogson (mezzo-soprano), Pamela Palmer Jones (harpsichord), Leslie Richards (viola da gamba) and special guest, viola d'amore exper, Gordon Childs.

Repertoire:
BACH Sonata No. 3 Mvt. 1 & 3; VIVALDI Concerto for viola d’amore in D minor Mvt. 2; ARIOSTI Cantata: Pur al fine gentil viola Mvt. 1 & 3; SESSA Occhi io vissi di voi

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Music from the British Isles

Tonight we've left our usual home at Studio 6 for a field trip to Brigham Young University's Museum of Art! The Island homes of Ireland, Scotland and England have given us music both sublime and silly, enthralling and thoroughly entertaining. In an intimate concert setting with an audience made up of sustaining members of Classical 89, we showcase this music performed by musicians of all kinds.
From Celtic cello to four-hand piano to opera to "Danny Boy," enjoy this musical journey to the British Isles, courtesy of Classical 89's Sustaining Members.

Liz Davis Maxfield (cello), Lori Weiss & Jayne Galloway (piano), Brian Stucki (tenor, cello), Clara Hurtado Lee (soprano), Massimiliano Frani (piano)

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TRADITIONAL Arr. MAXFIELD Garret Barry's, I Buried My Wife and Danced on Her Grave, Roaring Barmaid; MAXFIELD Statue; TRADITIONAL The Winding Roads of Advance, The Galway Piper; ELGAR Salut d'amour; HANDEL Semele: Endless Pleasure, Endless Love; DOWLAND Flow My Tears; SULLIVAN Capriccio; PARRY Jerusalem; WEATHERLY Danny Boy

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