3:00pm Sunday May 5, 2024
Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto
Cathy Yang, piano & Simon Tetzlaff, cello
program includes:
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Sonata for cello and piano
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) Malinconia, Op. 20
Cathy Yang, piano
Cathy Yang has lived and studied music in China, Canada, Germany, and the United States. Currently, she is pursuing a D.M.A. in Keyboard Collaborative Arts at the University of Southern California – Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, USA. She holds Bachelor and Master degrees in Piano Performance from the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in Germany. Having spent substantial time in each of those countries, she received an eclectic musical education, and her musical style is characterized by a synthesis of a rich variety of musical, cultural and pedagogical impulses. During her formative years in Canada, Cathy received prizes at many regional festivals in Ontario and in the nation-wide Canadian Music Competition. In 2006, she won a double first prize at the solo and concerto competition at Ithaca College in Ithaca, USA. In the same year, she was invited by the Vladimir Spivakov International Foundation as one of two representatives from Canada to participate in the music festival “Moscow Meets Friends”. She received first place in the Virtuosic Artist group at “Concours International de Concertos IAPMT 2023” in Azusa (CA).
Simon Tetzlaff, cello
Simon Tetzlaff was born in 1997 in Frankfurt, Germany, receiving piano, music theory and cello lessons in his early childhood. He regularly appears as a soloist and chamber musician, in October 2020, he gave his debut in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie with the Hamburger Camerata Orchestra. In the course of his studies he held fellowships from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Villa Music a Rheinland-Pfalz and PE-Förderungen Mannheim. He was a student of Prof. Julian Steckel at the academy in Munich, and Prof. Clemens Hagen at the Mozarteum Salzburg. He is currently enrolled in the Artist Diploma Program at USC Thornton in Los Angeles, studying with Prof. Ralph Kirshbaum. Since February 2020 Simon Tetzlaff plays a cello by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, by courtesy of the Music Instrument Fonds of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
