Violin Duo with MuChen Hsieh and Mann-Wen Lo
Date:
Thursday, April 25, 2024 | (5:30-6:30pm, Q&A to follow)
Location:
Blaffer Art Museum
Format:
We are proud to invite you to join us for an incredible performance surrounded by the UH School of Art Student Exhibition.
Works to be performed: Jean-Marie Leclair: Sonata for Two Violins in E Minor Op. 3 No. 5 (12 mins); Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins in C Major Op. 56 (17 mins)
Louis Spohr: Duo Concertante in D Major Op. 67 (20 mins)
About the Musicians
Violinist Mann-Wen Lo performs extensively in some of the most prestigious venues worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician. Lo has been a recurring artist in performances at Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Walt Disney Hall, among others. Featured on radio and TV broadcasts in the United States, Taiwan, Japan, and France, Mann-Wen has gained recognition at numerous competitions and awards. Most recently, her recording with the Mana Music Quartet featuring music of Queen Liliʻuokalani was awarded Instrumental Album of the Year at the 2021 Na Hoku Hanohano Award.
Mann-Wen has been a featured artist and has recorded under labels such as Warner Classics, Navona Records, and CMH Label Groups. She has collaborated with musicians from world-renowned string quartets, including the Juilliard String Quartet, the Cleveland Quartet, and the Takács Quartet. Her festival appearances include Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Saito Kinen Festival, Hawaii International Music Festival, Hawaii Chamber Music Festival and Rencontres Franco Américaines de Musique Chambre. Mann-Wen is Professor of Practice in Violin and a member of Trio Magnoliana with her colleagues at the University of Houston pianist Andrew Staupe and cellist Eunghee Cho.
MuChen Hsieh, from Taiwan, joined the Houston Symphony as Principal Second Violin in 2017. Prior to her appointment at Houston Symphony, she has worked with conductors such as Thomas Ades, Charles Dutoit, Larry Rachleff, David Robertson, Joshua Weilerstein, and Hugh Wolff, among others. She studied with Kathleen Winkler, Malcolm Lowe, and Masuko Ushioda at Shepherd School of Music at Rice University and New England Conservatory of Music.
MuChen performs regularly in the US and Taiwan. Most recently, she appeared as a soloist with the Houston Symphony in 2019, 2020, and 2022. As an avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with James Dunham, Cho-Liang Lin, Jon Kimura Parker, Gil Shaham, and Kathleen Winkler. When MuChen is home in Taiwan every summer, she enjoys playing chamber concerts with friends and coaching string orchestras. MuChen is an instructor for violin orchestral repertoire class at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.