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Program: W.A. Mozart (Sonata for Piano & Violin K.301); Claude Debussy (Sonata for Violin & Piano); Johannes Brahms (Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108); Bedrich Smetana (From my Native Land).

A native of Hong Kong, Alec Chien received his bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees from NYC’s Juilliard School of Music and studied under Adele Marcus. Winner of the grand prize at the 1986 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and prizewinner of the Sydney International Piano Competition, he has performed throughout the world, earning rave reviews in Australia, Austria, Greece, China and New Zealand, among others. In 1988, he was one of 25 Steinway artists to perform at Carnegie Hall to celebrate the company's 135th anniversary. Mr. Chien is currently a professor of music at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.
Sergiu Schwartz's international concert appearances have taken him to major music centers on three continents, including twenty European countries, Israel, and over forty U. S. states, as soloist with over two hundred orchestras, in recitals and chamber music concerts. Schwartz's honors include major prizes in international violin competitions in the United States and Europe, as well as awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. Of Schwartz’s music, Newsday states, "Following in the footsteps of his fellow countrymen Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman, he is a product of the best of European romantic interpretative style..."