Saturday, October 12 at 2:00pm in the Brand Library & Art Center recital hall.

Violinist Sheng-Ching Hsu and pianist Xiao Chen will be performing the program Her Voices: Music by Female Composers.

The Brand Associates Music Series features virtuosos from Southern California performing repertoire favorites and new music by living composers. All concerts will take place in the Brand Library Recital Hall. Admission is free and seating is limited. Sponsored by the Brand Associates.

Sheng-Ching Hsu – violin & Xiao Chen – piano

A native of Taiwan, Sheng-Ching Hsu is a member of Delirium Musicum, California Symphony and New West Symphony, and serves as guest principal 2nd violin of St. Matthew’s Chamber Orchestra. She also serves as a faculty at CSULB and Colburn Community School of Performing Arts. A firm believer in the power of music, Hsu created “S-C Sidewalk Performance,” where she brought weekly live music to the street corners of West LA during the pandemic, and was featured on KTTV Fox 11 Los Angeles and EliteGen Magazine in Toronto, Canada. Her story was also made into a documentary by “Aria’s Lens” in China.

Award-winning pianist Dr. Xiao Chen is actively engaged as both a soloist and chamber musician throughout the US, China, and Europe. Dr. Chen is currently on faculty at Mount Saint Mary’s University, having served as Lecturer in Piano Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2019. She is the music director of Irvine Conservatory of Music, as well as the artistic director of Irvine Conservatory International Music Competition. Her articles about music and teaching have been published in the U.S. and China. She has also collaborated with Bard Conservatory US-China Music Institute and created a new piano program for young students in China.

Program – Her Voices: Music by Female Composers
Marjorie Merryman: 2020 Visions
Kala Ramnath: Aalap and Tarana
Clara Schumann: 3 Romances, op. 22
Amy Beach: Romance op. 23
Florence Price: Fantasie No. 2 in F-sharp Minor
-Intermission-
Hung-Ping Chang: Selections from “Danse de Ballet en Solo”, pour violon solo et piano
Michiru Oshima: Memories
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Episode

For information on the entire music series, visit BrandLibrary.org/Music-Series

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Ample free parking is available in Brand Park. An accessible entrance and accessible parking for cars with a disabled parking placard or license plate is located on the East side of Brand Library.

For additional information about this event, please contact Brand Library & Art Center at (818) 548-2051 or send us an email at Info@BrandLibrary.org.