Event Calendar
Schadt Recital
Sunday, March 02, 2025, 2:00 pm
FREE CONCERT
PROGRAM
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Cello Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 14, RV 43
I. Largo
II. Allegro
III. Largo
IV. Allegro
AMY BEACH arr. Orfeo Mandozzi
Romance, Op. 23
WILLIAM BOLCOM
Capriccio
I. Allegro con spirto—very rhythmic
II. Molto adagio espressivo
III. Like a baracarolle—tempo giusto
IV. Gingando (Brazilian Tango Tempo), "Tombeau d'Ernesto Nazareth"
INTERMISSION
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 19
I. Lento—Allegro moderato
II. Allegro scherzando
III. Andante
IV. Allegro mosso
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
MEGAN YIP
Megan Yip, from Portland, OR, made her solo orchestral debut with Oregon Sinfonietta at age 14 and has also soloed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. She has continued to perform internationally and throughout the United States in venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Jordan Hall, David Geffen Hall, Kaufman Music Center, Helsinki Music Center, and Berwaldhallen Concert Hall. She was a member of the Grammy-nominated ensemble, Yale Cellos, and is guest artist with Versoi Ensemble, a collective of American and Finnish artists who collaborate in chamber music as agents of cultural diplomacy. As a principal cellist, she has played with CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, Orchester der Freiburg Musikhochschule, Yale Philharmonia, New Haven Chamber Orchestra, and The Juilliard Orchestra, and also plays in Ann Arbor Symphony and Detroit Opera.
She teaches cello undergraduates at University of Michigan and is on faculty at Indiana Summer String Academy and Michigan Youth Performing Arts Pre-College Program. She recently taught as a faculty member for New England Conservatory’s Summer Orchestral institute and has also previously taught undergraduates at Yale College.
In 2021, Megan won a Fulbright Award to Freiburg, Germany for a grant studying the 12 Sacher pieces for solo cello. She holds degrees from Yale School of Music and The Juilliard School, and her former teachers include Jean-Guihen Queyras, Richard Aaron, and Paul Watkins. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Michigan.
SARINA ZHANG
Raised in San Diego and New York City, Canadian-American pianist and cellist Sarina Zhang made her debut with the New York Philharmonic in 2011. She was named a National Young Arts Winner and a Davidson Fellow by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development. She is also the first person in the history of the Aspen Music Festival to have won both the low strings and the piano concerto competition.
She has performed as a soloist with the St. Louis, Detroit, San Diego, Albany, and Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Buffalo Philharmonic, among others. Most recently, she was a part of the 4th Season of the Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle with Gautier Capuçon. Sarina graduated with a Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School, studying piano with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Hung-Kuan Chen, and cello with Richard Aaron and David Finckel. She continued her studies in Germany at the Franz Liszt Hochschule für Musik, where she studied with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and Balázs Szokolay.
Currently, Sarina is pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan in cello performance with Richard Aaron.