Jun Asai Piano Concert July 30 (Sun) 2PM

Jun Asai presents a solo piano recital on July 30 (Sunday), 2023, at 2 pm. The program will open with Beethoven’s penultimate piano sonata, op. 110, followed by Rachmaninoff’s Corelli Variations and two of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes—Mazeppa and Feux follets. Rounding out the program is Ravel’s piano transcription of La valse. Tickets are free but required—previous concerts have sold out. The recital is generously sponsored by Davar Church in Pasadena.

[ Tickets ]
Free Entrance but seats are limited, so please reserve your tickets at
https://www2.junasai.com
https://www2.davarkg.com

[ Location ]
Zipper Hall at Colburn School of Performing Arts
200 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Telephone: (213) 621-2200

[ Program ]
Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110
I. Moderato cantabile molto espressivo
II. Allegro molto
III. Adagio ma non troppo
IV: Fuga (Allegro ma non troppo)
Rachmaninoff
Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42
Liszt
12 Études d’exécution transcendante, S. 139
No. 4 Mazeppa
No. 5 Feux follets
Ravel
La valse, M. 72

[ Profile ]
Jun Asai has performed with orchestras around the world, including the L.A. Philharmonic, Glendale Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony, Utah Symphony, Nagoya Philharmonic, and Shanghai Philharmonic. Prizewinner at various competitions—L.A. Phil’s Kaper Awards, the National Chopin Competition, Shanghai Int’l Competition, Joanna Hodges Int’l Competition, Bachauer Int’l Competition, New Orleans Int’l Competition, Città di Cantù Int’l Piano Competition, among others. Her teachers include Eduardo Delgado, Daniel Pollack, Oxana Yablonskaya, and Yoheved Kaplinsky. She has also worked with Yong Hi Moon, John O’Conor, Arie Vardi, Mikhail Voskressensky, and Nelita True. She gave her debut recital at Carnegie’s Weill Hall in 2002, appeared four times on the TV program “Musical Encounter,” and played the role of a piano prodigy in “Sneakers” with Robert Redford. She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and grew up locally in Pasadena, where she studied at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music and later at the Colburn School of Music. She entered the undergraduate program at Juilliard School at age 15 and went on to attain a master’s degree. She continued her postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University under the tutelage of Leon Fleisher.

Website: https://www2.junasai.com
Piano Performed by Jun Asai : https://www.youtube.com/user/AsaiJun7

[ Contact ]
Davar Church (626) 639-3037
Email: webteam@davar.org

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