Dinner with Asian Youth Orchestra

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Come join us for a great music/dinner event!  We will enjoy outstanding music by the renowned coaches with the Asian Youth Orchestra and AYO members, as well as an excellent meal with wine at the Crown Wine Cellars.  In particular among the evening's highlights will be a performance by the brilliant cello coach, our Yale alum Rhonda Rider!  

Lynn Chang, violin

A prizewinner of the international Paganni Competition, violinist Lynn Chang has enjoyed an active career as soloist, chamber musician, and in education. Mr. Chang studied with Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School and later attended Harvard. For twenty five years he has performed as a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and currently teaches at The Boston Conservatory.  Mr. Chang has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma on numerous occasions, most recently last Fall with the Silk Road Project. His former student Joseph Lin has recently been appointed first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet. In June 2008 Mr. Chang was elected to the Board of Overseers of Harvard University. This is his sixth summer with AYO.

William Pu, violin

A Chinese-American violinist, William Pu entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1978 at age of 11. Nine years later he left Shanghai for the United States to study with Fredell Lack and become her teaching assistant. Mr. Pu won the audition for the Houston Symphony Orchestra in 1990 and was named by Christoph Eschenbach as Assistant Concertmaster, thus becoming the youngest Assistant Concertmaster in the history of Houston Symphony Orchestra.

In 2002, Mr. Pu was invited by Music Director Robert Spano to become Associate Concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, where holds the prestigious Charles McKenzie Taylor Chair. Since 2002, William Pu has performed as Concertmaster for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Ravinia concerts in Chicago and other important tours and recordings. He has been featured as a soloist with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Wroclaw Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland, and other orchestras around Europe and the United States. Mr. Pu is also an active chamber music performer. He had performed with Arnold Steinhardt, Cho-Liang Lin, James Dunham and Lynn Harrell, and has given master classes at a number of Universities in the US. This is his sixth summer with AYO.

Amy Chang, viola

Amy Chang was born in Taiwan, where she won the Taiwan National Young Artist Violin Competition at age of 16. She was a full scholarship student both through her undergraduate and graduate studies at Rice University and received degrees in music performance from Rice. Ms. Chang played with the Houston Symphony, Houston Grand Opera and Houston Ballet Orchestra for 12 years. She has made numerous recordings with the Atlanta and Houston symphony orchestras, including La Boheme with Robert Spano conducting, and toured extensively under such distinguished conductors like Christoph Eschenbach and Robert Spano. An active chamber music musician, Ms. Chang has been a frequent guest artist at the Texas Music Festival and has performed in numerous chamber music concerts in both Houston and Atlanta. She has taught at the Interlochen Music Festival, and is currently a member of Atlanta Ballet and Opera orchestra. Her teachers include Camilla Wicks, James Dunham and Wayne Brooks. This is her fifth summer with AYO.

Jay Liu, viola

A native of Shanghai, Yun-Jie Liu is Associate Principal Violist of San Francisco Symphony and Principal Violist of the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra and World-wide Chinese Festival Orchestra. He has also served as Principal Violist of the San Diego Symphony and earlier in his career was invited by Maestro Mstislav Rostropovich to join the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. 

As a soloist, Mr. Liu has appeared with numerous orchestras in the US and China. He regularly gives chamber music concerts and solo recitals in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego Washington DC, China and Japan, and has shared the stage with Yo-Yo Ma, Julia Fischer, Yefim Bronfman and Michael Tilson Thomas. In 1994, he organized a chamber orchestra that brought together 35 Chinese musicians from around the world for a historic concert tour to Shanghai and Beijing.

Mr. Liu began violin studies with his father. At the age of 16 he entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where his teachers included Shen Xi-Di and Wu Fei. He was named Assistant Professor of viola upon graduation in 1985. A year later he went to the United States to study with Donald McInnes and Alan DeVertich at the University of Southern California.

Rhonda Rider, cello

A founding member of the the Namburg Award-winning Lydian Quartet, with whom she played for over twenty years, cellist Rhonda Rider is currently a member of the celebrated piano trio Triple Helix. She has performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, Moscow Conservatory, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Symphony Space, and the Library of Congress. Ms. Rider was a featured artist in the Robert Helps Festival of Contemporary Music (Florida), Emmauel Music's Bach and Schumann Series (Boston), and as guest artist with Boston Chamber Music Society and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Contemporary Chamber Music Series. She was named 2010-11 Artist-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park. Eleven pieces by diverse and renowed composers have been commissioned for her residency.

Dedicated to the performance of new music, Ms. Rider has premiered and recoreded works by such composers as John Harbison, Lee Hyla, Yu Hui Chang, Mario Davidovsky, Steven Mackey, Bright Sheng, and Elliott Carter. Her chamber music and solo recordings have been nomiated for Grammy Awards and cited as Critic's Choice in both the New York Times and Boston Globe. She has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the American String Teachers' Association, and Chamber music America. During the summer months, she is heard at Music from Salem (NY) where she holds a contemporary cello music seminar, and as cello coach for the Asian Youth Orchestra in Hong Kong. Ms. Rider is Chair of Chamber Music and on the cello faculty of The Boston Conservatory.

Cost:

HK$1,400.00 (Member)

HK$1,500.00 (Associate)

HK$1,500.00 (Guest) 

Contact Person:Randolph Kwei email to rkwei@jkcapitalmanagement.com