The Friday Noon Concert Series
presents
Friday, March 3, 2023
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - RSVP required
(limited seating available)
Program
Believing in Birdsong
Hilda Huang, pianist
Prelude and Fugue in A Major, Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 864
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 3’
St. Françoise d’Assise: La Predication aux Oiseaux from Deux Légends
St. Francis of Assisi: Sermon to the Birds from Two Legends
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) 10’
La Grive Musicienne (Turdus Ericetorum), from Petites Esquisses d’Oiseaux
The Song Thrush, from Little Sketches of Birds
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) 3’
Sonatina, from Cantata BWV 106, “Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit”
God’s Time is the Very Best Time
J.S. Bach arr. Hilda Huang 2’
Für Alina
Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) 3’
Toccata in D Major, BWV 912
J.S. Bach 9’
Artist bios:
Hilda Huangbegan her international performing career upon receiving first prize at the Leipzig Bach Competition at 18 years of age. She is the first person of Asian descent and first American to receive the honor. Since her international recital debut on the Steinway & Sons Prizewinners’ Concert Network at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in partnership with the Leipzig Bach Archive, she has been invited to perform Bach at the Leipzig Bach Festival, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Goethe-Theatre Bad Lauchstädt, and the Montréal Bach Festival. An advocate for modern performance of historical music, she appears worldwide on modern piano, fortepiano, and harpsichord. Hilda is supported by a 2019 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, the Kingsley Trust Association, and the Celia Ascher Doctoral Fellowship at the Juilliard School. Hilda Huang is a Steinway Artist and a winner of the 2021 Astral National Auditions. Upcoming performances include concertos with Symphony Parnassus and Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia.
Lunch is available for members after the concert
