Concert featuring Distinguished Artist Ning An and CLU faculty Keum Hwa Cha

A virtuoso pianist Ning An has been hailed as a musician who “combines a flawless technique and mastery of the instrument with an expressive power that is fueled by profound and insightful understanding.” (New York Concert Review)

An has won top prizes from prestigious competitions such as the Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, Cleveland International and William Kapell. He has been a soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic and the Stuttgart Philharmonic. Currently An serves as the Artist-Teacher on the piano faculty of California State University, Fullerton.

In this concert, he will join our Cal Lutheran music faculty, Keum Hwa Cha, DMA, to perform celebrated repertoire of duos for violin and piano. Both are graduates of the New England Conservatory of Music.

Cha, a former assistant professor at Idaho State University has given numerous concerts as a soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster in the United States and in South Korea. She has performed with maestros David Effron, Robert Shaw and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Chee-Yun, the Marcus Roberts Trio, Béla Fleck, Time for Three, the New West Symphony, the Idaho State-Civic Symphony, the Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players, the Binghamton Philharmonic, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and the Seoul Tutti Ensemble. Cha's students have won many accolades including ISCS Young Artist Competition, Danny Marona Performing Arts Scholarship, All-State Honors Orchestra and MTNA Young Artist String Competition. Cha currently teaches violin and viola at California Lutheran.​​

Program:

• Beethoven: Sonata No. 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring"
• Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
• Debussy: "Sonata in G minor"
• Debussy: "La plus que lente"

The concert will premiere online on Sunday, March 21, at 3 p.m. at https://www.callutheran.edu/music/.