Senior Recital: Teng Jian Khoo '09, violin02:34PM / Friday, April 17, 2009
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The Williams College Department of Music will present a Senior Recital featuring Teng Jian Khoo, violin on Saturday, May 2, at 5 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall.
This free event is open to the public.
Khoo will be playing The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams, Poème, opus 25 by Chausson, and Sonata for Violin and Piano, opus 9 by Szymanowski. He will be accompanied by Tiffany Yu '09 and Noah Lindquist '08.
A resident of Penang, Malaysia, Teng Jian Khoo ’09 began playing the violin at age 10, after an abortive attempt to learn the piano. His first teacher was Lo Mei Yoke, concertmistress of the Penang State Symphony Orchestra. As an orchestral musician, Teng Jian has performed in Malaysia, Thailand and Australia, most notably joining the Southeast Asian Youth Orchestra in 2004. He is currently a student of Joanna Kurkowicz.
At Williams, Teng Jian has at various times been a member of the Berkshire Symphony, Symphonic Winds and Percussion Ensemble. In addition, he conducts the Student Symphony. A Physics major who has dabbled in Math, History and Chinese, he plans to pursue a PhD. in Physics next year.
Besides his musical exploits, Teng Jian is an avid fencer, cook and cat-lover.
Senior Recital: Kenny Taubenslag '09, piano
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The Williams College Department of Music will present a Senior Recital featuring Kenny Taubenslag '09, piano, on Saturday, May 2, 2009, at 6:30 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams College campus.
This free event is open to the public.
Taubenslag will be playing Mozart’s Rondo in A Minor, K. 511; Scriabin’s Sonata No. 5, opus 53; and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, opus 58. He will be accompanied by Elizabeth Wright.
Kenny Taubenslag is native of Morgantown, WV. He started playing the piano at the age of thirteen and is now a student of Elizabeth Wright. Majoring in English and chemistry, he will read for an MPhil in English next year at Cambridge. His is a member of the tennis team and enjoys skiing and nature photography. |
