Ya-Ting Liou Piano Recital

The 2020 Globe Sunday matinee series of concerts resumes on Sunday March 1 with a concert which promises to be stunning. Although most of the Globe concerts showcase the talent that is in our region, on occasions such as this it reaches out to national and international artists. On this occasion the concert is to be given by Taiwanese – born pianist Ya -Ting Liou.

Ya-Ting received her Bachelor’s and Master's degrees from the Peabody Institute of Music and D.M.A. degree in piano performance from the University of Missouri - Kansas City in the United States. Her teachers include Marian Hahn, Ellen Mack, and Robert Weirich. She has participated in piano master classes with such piano luminaries as Jerome Lowenthal, Leon Fleisher, Leslie Howard, Peter Serkin, Stephen Hough, and Peter Frankl.

Critics have noted Ya-Ting Liou’s “secure and impressive technique” and her “ability for expressive and moving playing.”

Ya-Ting has presented concerts as a soloist and chamber musician in New Zealand and abroad, with performance highlights including appearances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in New York, and venues in Italy, Canada, Argentina, and Taiwan.

As an educator, she has given masterclasses at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo in Argentina and at the Tainan National University of Arts in Taiwan.

Ya-Ting will play a colourful and wide- ranging programme. It includes two Baroque French pieces about birds, the Eroica variations of Beethoven, a Nocturne by the virtuoso pianist Paderewski, who was at one stage Prime Minister of Poland, a composition by New Zealand composer Gareth Farr, and finally a Fantasy Sonata by the greatest pianist of the nineteenth century, Franz Liszt.