Workshop Description:Are you planning to pursue an advanced degree abroad in music? Or thinking of transferring to an undergraduate program overseas?This workshop will provide important information and strategies about how to get accepted to a top college or university music program in the USA.Professor Tom Stein is from Berklee College of Music in Boston and is new at UIC. He will bring his de...

Event Description:Improvisation was a central part of a musician's training in 17th and 18th century Europe. Many of the great composers whom we revere today were also renowned performers, teachers, and improvisers. However, as musicians began to specialize in various musical subdisciplines, the art of improvisation began to recede to the point that many classical pianists today can play the mo...

Bio of the Speaker: Learning from Zhonghua SHENG,  Jiyang ZHAO,  Zhinuo DING, Ivry Gitlis, Zakhar Bron. Ms.Zhengyu WU is former concertmaster of the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra and former Guest Concertmaster of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (2010). Bachelor's degree of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, winner of Golden Bell Award, winner of Fu Chengxian Scholarship. Master's degree of the Ro...

Bio of the Speaker: Choi Sown Le, an ABRSM scholar, graduated from the Royal College of Music, London and the Conservatoire de Musique, Geneva where he was awarded the Premier Prix de Virtuosité with Distinction in piano performance. His teachers included Lamar Crowson, Louis Hiltbrand, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Sergiu Celibidache.As soloist he performed with the Prague Chamber Orchestr...

Winner of 2011 Pulitzer Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the 2012-2013 Elise Stoeger Prize from Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Distinguished Professor of Composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservator.

Abstract: Composing joy in suffering and composing music in joy is the portrayal of Beethoven's life. Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies in his life, each of which is a masterpiece, and this ninth symphony is recognized as the highest achievement of symphony. It is the culmination of Beethoven's life. To say that he is a symphony, it should be called the history of Beethoven's life struggle against f...

Abstract: As one of the characteristic genres with unique artistic charm in western music history, nocturne originated in the form of vocal works in medieval religious rites. After inheritance and development of time, the Irish composer John Field composed the first piano solo nocturne in 1812 as a pioneer, then opened up the field of nocturne composition as an independent piano instrumental ge...

Bio of the Speaker: Lin SHEN is associate professor of the Shanghai Normal University - Music College, Director of the Music Technology Department. He was studied music at Shanghai Conservatory of Music and School of Music of Bangor University, and now doing the PhD electroacoustic music project with professor Andrew Lewis. He is a composer that wrote several Electroacoustic music.  And he also...