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Los Angeles-based musician Dr. Alexander Zhu has performed solo recitals, concerti, and chamber, orchestral, pop, fusion, and film music across the United States, Europe, and China. He is also an established composer of pedagogical, film, and television music, with works showcased at film festivals across the US and Europe, and featured on Disney+, Netflix, and TF1 (France). His pedagogical piano works are published by Hal Leonard.
Nato a Napoli nel 2001 Ugo Cannavale, ha conseguito il Diploma accademico di primo livello in Pianoforte presso il Conservatorio “San Pietro a Majella” di Napoli con il massimo dei voti e menzione speciale, sotto la guida del M° Orazio Maione. Attualmente frequenta il Biennio accademico di Pianoforte presso il medesimo Conservatorio e prosegue parallelamente gli studi presso la Hochschule für Musik di Nürnberg.
Seulki Susie Yoo, D.M.A., is dedicated to delivering music with narrative and meaning. Through her lecture-recitals, she invites audiences to engage with music through awareness and diverse perspectives. A central focus of her artistic and scholarly work has been championing Paul Dukas's piano repertoire. Her lecture-recitals on Dukas's Variations, Interlude et Finale sur un thème de Rameau and the composer's identity have been presented at annual conferences of the College Music Society, the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association, the American Musicological Society (JSMSG), and the Society for Music Theory. Her research on Dukas and French fin-de-siècle culture has also appeared in the College Music Society Symposium.
The seasons return each year, yet no season is ever truly the same.
Album sheets, trifles, bagatelles, simple short pieces, encores conceived as such or adapted for the purpose of an encore, and often confined exclusively to that no-man’s-land: the miniatures on the programme – both originals and transcriptions – tell stories both small and grand, placing them centre stage (auch kleine Dinge… to quote Hugo Wolf). In just a few bars and with extraordinary effectiveness, they yield to expressions that are by turns light-hearted and profoundly deep......
Antonio Esposito nasce a Matera nel Luglio del 1994, si diploma con il massimo dei voti in Pianoforte presso il Conservatorio "E.R.Duni" di Matera, e studia con maestri di grande fama nonché pianisti concertisti di caratura mondiale come Vincenzo De Filpo, Giuseppe Greco e Marco Schiavo. Viene ammesso e partecipa a vari corsi di alto perfezionamento pianistico tenuti da illustri maestri come: De Maria, Prosseda, Lupo, Deljavan, Vacatello. Nel frattempo prosegue e approfondisce ulteriormente la sua formazione musicale partecipando al corso di laurea Alta Formazione Artistica e Musicale a numero chiuso, dopo esservi stato ammesso, in Direzione d'Orchestra presso il Conservatorio di Matera, sotto la guida dell'insigne Maestro Pablo Varela. Dopo aver ottenuto i requisiti che lo abilitano all'insegnamento dell'educazione musicale sia nelle scuole medie che negli istituti di istruzione di secondo grado, viene subito nominato Docente presso la Scuola "De Gasperi" di Corato (Ba).
Gülçin Aslanova was born in Baku, Azerbaijan. She studied at the Baku Music Academy with Prof. Farida Kuliyeva, a pupil of Alexander Goldenweiser, and completed postgraduate studies with Prof. Rafik Kuliyev, who trained in Moscow with Abram Shatskes.
Ann Tayler's journey in the world of music began at a young age, marked by her exceptional talent in piano, which earned her recognition with an award in the Ho-Hai-Children Piano Competition. Growing up attending a Catholic girls' school, she deeply appreciated the moral teachings instilled by the church. Throughout her high school and undergraduate years at National Taiwan Normal University, Ann immersed herself in music, playing the violin in the school orchestra and later exploring composition during her studies.
Soul Resonance – Playing the Soul presents a piano recital that explores the inner resonance between musical structure and expressive freedom. The album unfolds from the clarity and balance of Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in C major from The Well-Tempered Clavier to the expansive sonorities of Beethoven’s “Waldstein” Sonata and the dramatic intensity of Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz.
With the music featured in Wandering, the listener is projected far beyond Beethoven’s conception of the genre – who at the beginning of the 19th century codified its main characteristics, giving it full artistic dignity.
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