Lecture-Recital: Mike Cheng-Yu Lee, piano

Monday, November 4, 2019 at 8:00pm CST

Regenstein Master Class Room

Awarded Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2011 Westfield International Fortepiano Competition, Mike Cheng-Yu Lee is an advocate of pianos that span the 18th to early-20th centuries. Adept at working with both period and modern performers, he has appeared with the New World Symphony and collaborated with members of the Juilliard, Formosa, and Aizuri quartets. He has performed and given master classes at the Royal Academy of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Yale School of Music, and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, among others. As a published scholar, he has presented on issues of performance practice, musical form, and musical embodiment at the Society for Music Theory, the European Music Analysis Conference, and the Society for Music Analysis. Lee studied at the Yale School of Music and holds a PhD in musicology from Cornell University.

W. A. Mozart, Sonata in C Major, K. 330
W. A. Mozart, Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 333
W. A. Mozart, Sonata in C Minor, K. 457