QuinTexas with Chien-Lin Lu, piano

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Charlotte Daniel, flute
Freddie Blood, oboe
Nicholas Councilor, clarinet
Laura McIntrye, bassoon 
Rose Valby, horn

Program

Jean Françaix
Quintette No. 1

Lalo Schifrin
La Nouvelle Orleans

Francis Poulenc
Sextet for Winds and Piano
Chien-Lin Lu, piano

QuinTexas

In the Fall of 2014, QuinTexas formed as a group of doctoral performance candidates within the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin. The group was awarded the 2015 Coleman-Saunderson Prize in Winds, Brass, and Percussion at the 69th Annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in Pasadena, California, granted the Odyssey Chamber Music Series Honorable Mention at the 2015 Plowman Chamber Music Competition in Columbia, Missouri, and received an invitation to compete in the 2015 Plovdiv International Chamber Music Competition in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.  Since their inaugural year, they have paired high standards of artistry and collaboration with a commitment to education and community engagement. QuinTexas has been a featured guest ensemble throughout Central Texas, including recital series’ hosted by the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, the Hallettsville Cultural Events Center, Central Presbyterian Church of Austin, Dell Children's Medical Center, the University of Texas’ Fine Arts Library, the Westminster Retirement Community, Houston Methodist Hospital, and has worked with the Austin Chamber Music Center to present educational concerts at both the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and Austin Achieve Public Schools.

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Chien-Lin Lu, piano

A native of Taiwan, Chien-Lin Lu is currently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Collaborative Piano at the Sarah and Ernest School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin as a student of Anne Epperson. Having just received his MM in Collaborative Piano from UT Austin, he also holds the Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory, and his Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance and Vocal Accompanying from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. While in San Francisco, Chien-Lin had the opportunity to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major with the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra. In the summers of 2014 and 2015, he served as a collaborative piano fellow at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California studying with Jonathan Feldman, and in the summer of 2016, Chien looks forward to joining the collaborative staff at the renowned Meadowmount School of Music in upstate New York, an intensive training program for young violinists, cellists, and violists. His teachers include Yoshikazu Nagai, Phillip Highfill and Paul Hersh, and additional experience studies on fortepiano with David Breitman and harpsichord with Webb Wiggins.

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Event Status
Scheduled
Event Types
Chamber Music Winds & Percussion