Winland Concerts
4.20Spring Rain
—— Yao Jialin
Program
1. Robert Schumann, Humoreske, OP.20
2. Alexander Scriabin, Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28
3. Franz Liszt, Reminiscences de Don Juan, S. 418
2. Alexander Scriabin, Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28
3. Franz Liszt, Reminiscences de Don Juan, S. 418
This recital represented a unique challenge to me. It was the first time that I played in such a huge atrium up 15th floors tall. I needed to adjust the reverberation and the way I used the pedals on the occasion. I found the acoustics here really good for Schumann’s Humoreske. It was inspiring and intoxicating. Liszt’s Reminiscences de Don Juan was my handpicked piece for this recital. A rearrangement from Mozart’s opera masterpiece Don Giovanni, it matches the theme of both the wall painting and the piano. Moreover, it’s known as the most difficult piano solo in the world. I’m glad I’ve conquered it once again. While playing, I could feel it that the audience was highly concentrated and attentive. They made an excellent atmosphere and I felt somewhat connected with them via my music. It was miraculous, and it was a pleasant surprise to me that the audience was so well-learned in classical music.
Yao Jialin young pianist
Yao Jialin has staged piano concertos together with Wuhan Philharmonic, Orchestra Academia China, and Orchestra of the Middle School Affiliated to China Conservatory of Music, under the baton of renowned conductors Shao En, Cheng Ye, Jing Dong, and others. He has staged concerts in many places in China, as well as in Germany, Italy, Portugal, Singapore, and Japan.
Yao has won awards in many international piano competitions: the 2021 Singapore International Piano Competition, the second Shigeru Kawai International Piano Competition, Friuli Venezia Giulia International Piano Competition, the 18th Santa Cecília International Piano Competition, the Steinway & Sons International Youth Piano Competition (No. 1, youth professional category), 2018 Yangtze River Piano National College Piano Competition (“Little Golden Bell”, No. 1 open professional category), the third Chengdu Golden Hibiscus Music Competition (Golden Prize), etc. In November, 2020, Yao was mentored by famous Chinese American pianist Huang Ruoyu. In 2021, Yao, named a special talent, became the only student of the conservatory to be admitted, without examination and with a generous scholarship, into the postgraduate program at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of the legendary Russian maestro Sergei Babayan. In 2021, Yao was one of the four Chinese competitors at the 63rd Busoni Piano Competition.
He has a quite matured artistic style, delicate and sensitive. He is always serious and careful with his music, striving for the best for every tiny detail.
His performance is a combination of intimidating piano skills and sensitive and persuasive sound effects. He has undoubtedly showed the potential of an international pianist.
Yao Jialin has staged piano concertos together with Wuhan Philharmonic, Orchestra Academia China, and Orchestra of the Middle School Affiliated to China Conservatory of Music, under the baton of renowned conductors Shao En, Cheng Ye, Jing Dong, and others. He has staged concerts in many places in China, as well as in Germany, Italy, Portugal, Singapore, and Japan.
Yao has won awards in many international piano competitions: the 2021 Singapore International Piano Competition, the second Shigeru Kawai International Piano Competition, Friuli Venezia Giulia International Piano Competition, the 18th Santa Cecília International Piano Competition, the Steinway & Sons International Youth Piano Competition (No. 1, youth professional category), 2018 Yangtze River Piano National College Piano Competition (“Little Golden Bell”, No. 1 open professional category), the third Chengdu Golden Hibiscus Music Competition (Golden Prize), etc. In November, 2020, Yao was mentored by famous Chinese American pianist Huang Ruoyu. In 2021, Yao, named a special talent, became the only student of the conservatory to be admitted, without examination and with a generous scholarship, into the postgraduate program at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of the legendary Russian maestro Sergei Babayan. In 2021, Yao was one of the four Chinese competitors at the 63rd Busoni Piano Competition.
He has a quite matured artistic style, delicate and sensitive. He is always serious and careful with his music, striving for the best for every tiny detail.
– Dmitri Alexeev, Russian pianist and piano professor at the Royal College of Music, UK
His performance is a combination of intimidating piano skills and sensitive and persuasive sound effects. He has undoubtedly showed the potential of an international pianist.
– Ronan O’Hora, pianist and professor at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK
Robert Schumann, Humoreske, OP.20
Humoreske is a representative piece by Robert Schumann, a leading figure of 19th-century Romanism. It pioneered a new genre in piano music. The title may hint at something pleasant and scherzando, but irony was usually part of the way Schumann composed his music, like what he did for his program music pieces and paronomasia, suggestive and creative. This is a long piece that lasts nearly half an hour. From it, one can hear how the composer struggled internally and emotionally when creating it.
Alexander Scriabin, Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28
This is a romantic music poem on the piano, grand and full of passion. It was composed in 1900 when the composer was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory and it is the only piano piece from that period of his career.
Franz Liszt, Reminiscences de Don Juan, S. 418
This fantasia is based on Mozart’s Don Giovanni, reducing a two-and-a-half-hour opera to a very short piano piece. Unlike most opera fantasias of the 19th century, which were no more than a combination of the famous pieces of each opera, Liszt’s Don Juan is a groundbreaking masterpiece.
Humoreske is a representative piece by Robert Schumann, a leading figure of 19th-century Romanism. It pioneered a new genre in piano music. The title may hint at something pleasant and scherzando, but irony was usually part of the way Schumann composed his music, like what he did for his program music pieces and paronomasia, suggestive and creative. This is a long piece that lasts nearly half an hour. From it, one can hear how the composer struggled internally and emotionally when creating it.
Alexander Scriabin, Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28
This is a romantic music poem on the piano, grand and full of passion. It was composed in 1900 when the composer was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory and it is the only piano piece from that period of his career.
Franz Liszt, Reminiscences de Don Juan, S. 418
This fantasia is based on Mozart’s Don Giovanni, reducing a two-and-a-half-hour opera to a very short piano piece. Unlike most opera fantasias of the 19th century, which were no more than a combination of the famous pieces of each opera, Liszt’s Don Juan is a groundbreaking masterpiece.
