First Tuesday Concert - Ya-Ting Liou, Piano

Ya-Ting received her Bachelor’s and Master's degrees from the Peabody Institute of Music and D.M.A. degree in piano performance from the University of Missouri - Kansas City in the United States. Her teachers include Marian Hahn, Ellen Mack, and Robert Weirich. She has participated in piano master classes with such piano luminaries as Jerome Lowenthal, Leon Fleisher, Leslie Howard, Peter Serkin, Stephen Hough, and Peter Frankl.

Critics have noted Ya-Ting Liou’s “secure and impressive technique” and her “ability for expressive and moving playing.”

Ya-Ting has presented concerts as a soloist and chamber musician in New Zealand and abroad, with performance highlights including appearances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in New York, and venues in Italy, Canada, Argentina, and Taiwan.

Ya-Ting will play a colourful and exciting programme. It includes Prelude and Fugue No. 5 in D Major (from 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87) by Dmitri Shostakovich, and Sonata in C minor, D. 958 by Franz Schubert.