PREVIEW: Sounds from the East to West

This is a Chinese piano concert featuring Oliver Jia & Jiyuan Grace Zhang. It is Saturday, Mach 30, 2019 from 12:30 – 2 pm at the Britton Recital Hall in E.V. Moore Building. FREE concert, so definitely check it out. Also, this piano concert will be very different from what you are used to hearing because the songs all have an East influence, hence the name of the concert. This concert is guaranteed to relieve your stress.

Oliver Jia is a music professor at The University of Texas Rio Grand Valley, with degrees from Yale, Julliard and U of M.
Jiyuan Grace Zhang is a U of M graduate.
These are the songs they will be playing:
Man Jiang Hong – Prelude (2002), composed by Chu Wang-Hua
Jasmine Flower Fantasia (2003), composed by Chu Wang-Hua
Liu Tianhua Impromptus (1998), composed by Cui Shi Guang
Longing for my love (1991), composed by Dan Zhao-Yi
Pi Huang (1995), composed by Zhang Zhao
(Intermission)
Yellow River Concerto, composed by Xian Xianghai

Ronald McTrump

I am a senior studying business and I have lots of travelling experience in Asia. I am very pessimistic and opinionated about life, but art brings me happiness and I hope my pessimism isn't apparent in my reviews, for the sake of the artists!

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