{"id":8634,"date":"2025-08-18T23:25:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=8634"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:57:12","slug":"8634-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/?page_id=8634","title":{"rendered":"Salonline 2025-08-17 Chengcheng Yao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Sunday, August 17, 2025<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

— a “hybrid” event —<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chengcheng Yao<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piano<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celebrating Ravel’s 150th!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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PROGRAM<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pr\u00e9lude, M.65 1913
\u00c0 la mani\u00e8re de Borodine, M.63\/1<\/strong>
\u00c0 la mani\u00e8re de Chabrier, M.63\/2 1912-13

Sonatine, M.40 1903-05<\/strong>
Mod\u00e9r\u00e9<\/strong><\/em>
Mouvement de menuet<\/strong><\/em>
Anim\u00e9<\/strong><\/em>

\u2014Dance theme\u2014
Menuet sur le nom d\u2019Haydn, M.58 1909

Valses nobles et sentimentales, M.61 1911<\/strong>
Mod\u00e9r\u00e9, tr\u00e8s franc<\/strong>
Assez lent, avec une expression intense<\/strong>
Mod\u00e9r\u00e9<\/strong>
Assez anim\u00e9<\/strong>
Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime<\/strong>
Vif<\/strong>
Moins vif<\/strong>
\u00c9pilogue<\/em>. Lent<\/strong>

\u2014Water theme\u2014
Jeux d\u2019eau, M.30 1901

Gaspard de la nuit, M.55 1908<\/strong>
Ondine<\/em>. Lent<\/strong>
Le Gibet<\/strong><\/em>
Scarbo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Praised by Marin Alsop as an \u201camazing young pianist,\u201d Chengcheng Yao is rapidly emerging as one of the most creative and expressive artists of her generation. Her orchestral highlights include performances of Bart\u00f3k\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Marin Alsop and with the Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra under maestro Timothy Muffitt. She has also appeared as a soloist with the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hebei Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yao\u2019s solo performances have taken her to prestigious venues across North America, Europe, and Asia, such as Alice Tully Hall in New York, Laeiszhalle and Steinway Hall in Hamburg, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Vienna\u2019s Beethoven Center and University of Music and Performing Arts, Berlin\u2019s Chinese Culture Center and University of the Arts, Beijing\u2019s National Center for the Performing Arts and Forbidden City Concert Hall, and the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A passionate chamber musician, Yao has participated in major festivals including the Chautauqua Music Festival (USA), Virtuoso & Belcanto Festival and Amalfi Coast Music & Arts Festival (Italy), University of Toronto New Music Festival (Canada), and Beijing International Piano Festival (China). Her chamber music performances have spanned notable venues such as Heliconian Hall (Toronto), Morse Hall at The Juilliard School (New York), Morse Recital Hall at Yale School of Music (New Haven), and Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall at the Peabody Institute (Baltimore).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner of the 2017 Elizabeth Parisot Prize\u2014awarded to \u201coutstanding pianists\u201d at the Yale School of Music\u2014Yao has been recognized with numerous awards. Her achievements include First Prizes at the 71st Steinway International Piano Competition, the Sigma Alpha Iota Piano Competition, and the Harrison Winter Piano Competition. She has also received Silver Medals at the 68th Wideman International Piano Competition, the 2016 Young Artist Piano Concerto Competition, and the Virtuoso & Belcanto Piano Competition, as well as Third Prizes at the Weatherford College International Piano Competition and the WPTA International Piano Competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dedicated to education, Yao has been a piano instructor at the Washington Conservatory of Music since 2021, teaching students of all ages. She previously served as a Piano Minor Lesson Instructor at the Peabody Institute and as a Secondary Piano Lesson Instructor at the Yale School of Music. Yao has also given masterclasses at the Peabody Institute and the China Conservatory of Music and, since September 2024, has been serving as a coach for the Homewood Chamber Music Seminar at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yao completed her Bachelor of Music degree at the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She holds two master\u2019s degrees from The Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Jerome Lowenthal, Matti Raekallio, Peter Frankl, and Hung-Kuan Chen. While pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, she worked with legendary pianist Leon Fleisher and Yong Hi Moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunday, August 17, 2025 — a “hybrid” event — Chengcheng Yao Piano Celebrating Ravel’s 150th! PROGRAM Pr\u00e9lude, M.65 1913\u00c0 la mani\u00e8re de Borodine, M.63\/1\u00c0 la mani\u00e8re de Chabrier, M.63\/2 1912-13 Sonatine, M.40 1903-05Mod\u00e9r\u00e9Mouvement de menuetAnim\u00e9 \u2014Dance theme\u2014Menuet sur le nom d\u2019Haydn, M.58 1909 Valses nobles et sentimentales, M.61 1911Mod\u00e9r\u00e9, tr\u00e8s francAssez lent, avec une expression […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8634","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8911,"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8634\/revisions\/8911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emersonavenuesalons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}