Four days after celebrating his 19th birthday, Haochen Zhang won a Gold Medal at the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. For those that witnessed the Shanghai native perform all fifteen Bach two-part inventions at the age of five, this success may not be surprising, but Zhang now plays well beyond childhood accomplishments. In the words of The Dallas Morning News, he has "demonstrated a musical maturity almost unimaginable in one so young."

Program:

Chopin
Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Opus 23
Ballade No. 2 in F Major, Opus 38
Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major, Opus 47
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Opus 52

Brahms
Klavierstücke, Opus 118

Ginastera
Piano Sonata No. 1, Opus 22


Encores:

R. Schumann
Träumerei

Chopin
Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. posth.

An Aaron Richmond Recital