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Saturday, October 16, 2010
7:30 pm

Hilltop Auditorium
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Tickets: $25

Tien Hsieh

Classical Pianist from California

As one reviewer from the San Francisco bay area recently quoted, “Serious, composed, tiny and full of music, Tien Hsieh lets her artistry on the piano express a warmth and freshness of ideas that surely none but a poet could explain”. Another reviewer said she “…delivered electrifying performances of music of monumentally heroic difficulty. Her Schumann Humoresque, Op. 20 was described as ‘Grand, relentless, madness explained, love caught through fingertips and galloping hooves trailing off to pastoral dreams’.”

Tien Hsieh immigrated to the United States with her family when she was nine years old. Born in Taiwan of Chinese parents, she began musical studies with her mother Sylvia Hsieh. A prizewinner of many competitions including the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, Artists International Presentations Auditions in New York, Pacific Piano Competition and Festival in California, Miss Hsieh is a recipient of the prestigious Roy M. Rubinstein Award from Manhattan School of Music and a recipient of the Li-Ching Cultural and Educational Foundation Grant representing cross-cultural exchange. Following the success of her New York Recital Debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, she has appeared in recitals for festivals, colleges and universities, cultural and art centers across the U.S., as well as in Germany, China, and Hungary.