Winsor Music is pleased to announce that George Li will perform as our featured Young Artist on the Opening Concert of our 2014 Chamber Series.

Praised by the Washington Post for combining “staggering technical prowess, a sense of command and depth of expression,” pianist George Li possesses brilliant virtuosity and effortless grace far beyond his years. In 2012 alone, Mr. Li won the Gilmore Young Artist Award and received the Tabor Foundation Piano Award at the Verbier Academy. The 2014-2015 season includes his Alice Tully Hall debut, in which he performs the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under Gerard Schwarz.

Mr. Li has performed recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Tryon Concert Association, the Buffalo Chamber Music Society, the Candlelight Concert Society, University of Georgia, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Harriman-Jewell Series, the Miami International Piano Festival, the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the Morgan Library and Museum, the Vancouver Recital Society, Shriver Hall, and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, among others. As a concerto soloist, he has appeared with the Richmond, Hilton Head, Edmonton, and Stamford Symphonies, the Boise and Spartanburg Philharmonics, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pasadena Symphony and Pops, the Boston Philharmonic, and the Nordic Chamber Orchestra and the Norrkoping Orchestra in Sweden.

In 2011, Mr. Li performed for President Obama at the White House in an evening honoring Chancellor Angela Merkel. He was chosen to appear at the opening ceremony of Boston’s new Institute of Contemporary Art and the inauguration of President Tony Woodcock at the New England Conservatory, and has performed for members of US Congress at the Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.

First Prize Winner in the 2010 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Mr. Li’s highly acclaimed New York debut at the age of 16 opened the 51st Young Concert Artists Series in the Peter Marino Concert at Merkin Concert Hall. YCA also presented his debut in Washington, DC at the Kennedy Center, sponsored by the Alexander Kasza-Kasser Prize, both to rave reviews.

As First Prize winner of the inaugural Cooper Competition at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, he appeared as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra. He has also performed as soloist with orchestras including the Xiamen Philharmonic in China, the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra in Venezuela, and with “I Solisti di Perugia” in Italy. He played Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 with the New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic under Benjamin Zander on a European tour.

George Li gave his first public performance at Boston’s Steinway Hall at the age of ten. He won First Prize in the Massachusetts Music Teachers Association Competition twice at the ages of six and seven. While attending the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, he studied piano with Wha Kyung Byun at the New England Conservatory. He is currently in the Harvard University/ New England Conservatory joint program, continuing his studies with Wha Kyung Byun.

George will appear courtesy of Young Concert Artists Inc.

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
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New York, NY 10107

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Photo: Christoph Michaelis