2012-13 Season
All Concerts
Brahms, Beethoven & a DCS Competition Winner
Tickets $21-$38
(214) 880-0202
$12 Student Rush at the door.
Tickets are available for purchase in the City Performance Hall lobby the evening of the concert.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 7:30pm
Enjoy a concert of youthful vigor in a prize performance by the winner of the 2013 DCS International Piano Competition. Follow the competition in March, and be sure to catch this, the winner’s DCS debut. Maestro Richard McKay also conducts works by Beethoven and Brahms in the grand finale of Dallas Chamber Symphony’s 2012-13 Season.
City Performance Hall | 2520 Flora Street | Dallas, Texas 75201
Program:
Coriolan Overture – Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor – Sergei Rachmaninoff
Congcong Chai, pianist – Winner of the DCS International Piano Competition 2013
For more information on the DCS International Piano Competition, presented in partnership with the SMU Meadows School of the Arts, click here.
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor – Johannes Brahms
Allegro non troppo
Andante moderato
Allegro giocoso
Allegro energico e passionato
Winner of the DCS International Piano Competition 2013, and a prize winner of the 53rd Sorantin International Competition, Chai has participated in piano masterclasses and private lessons conducted by Leslie Howard, Paul Badura-Skoda, Malcolm Bilson, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Matti Raekallio and Vladimir Krainev, and others. He has performed in Lawrence, Fort Worth, Grand Junction, Hong Kong, Macau, Shang Hai, Shenzhen, and Zhu Hai. His performances have included varied repertoire for solo piano, two pianos, and piano concertos. He enjoys an association with the conductors Robert Ward and Yondani Butt, collaborating in performances of Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto, the Yellow River Piano Concerto and Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor.
As a recipient of numerous scholarships, Chai has been awarded the Lee Shuk-chee Memorial Scholarship, The Society of APA Non-Local Scholarship, Tom Lee Music Scholarship, CE Scholarship, Baring Private Equity Asia Scholarship, HKAPA Piano Alumni Scholarship, Capps Rogers Scholarship and David & Gunda Hiebert Piano Scholarship. Born in Xian, China, Chai Congcong started piano lessons with his mother at a young age. He studied at the DongFang XingZhi Piano School with Prof. Zheng Shu Xing, and ShenZhen Art School with Dan Zhao Yi and Miao Xiao Yan.
After graduating from high school, he was admitted to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts to study with Prof. Eleanor Wong for his Diploma, Bachelor, and Master degrees. As a Graduate Teaching Assistant of University of Kansas, he is currently in his second year of the DMA programme at KU with Dr. Jack Winerock.
