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This year Grayson College will be hosting Rachel Cheung, winner of the Audience Award and Finalist at the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2017.
Lecture Recital Date: Oct. 21, 2019 @ 12:15pm
Concert Date: Oct. 22, 2019 @7:30pm, Cruce Stark Auditorium
Winner of the Audience Award and finalist at the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2017, Young Steinway Artist Rachel Cheung was described as “a poet, but also a dramatist” displaying “the most sophisticated and compelling music-making” (The Dallas Morning News). She won the fifth prize at the 2009 Leeds International Piano Competition at age 17. A year later, in 2010, she was a semifinalist at the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Other achievements include first prizes at the International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Ukraine and the Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition in Salt Lake City, second prize and Schubert Prize at the 2008 Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition in Italy, and Georges Leibenson Prize in the 2012 Geneva International Piano Competition. In 2016, Rachel was awarded the special prize at the New York Concert Artists Worldwide Debut Audition. She was the audience award winner in the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and received the following review:
“The only woman in the Final Round, Cheung was
also the only finalist to pick the Brahms. Right from the outset, she
evinced a sure feeling for the shape and direction of the music and,
throughout, tempos were flawlessly judged.”-Scott Cantrell, Dallas
Morning News
