An die Musik: Coffee Patisserie & Classical Music
Online: $10 | In person: $20 ($10 student)
- Katherine Needleman, oboe
- Meng Wang, viola
- Hanchien Lee, piano
Rebecca Clarke — Viola Sonata
Althea Talbot-Howard — Blue Sahara Crossing
Althea Talbot-Howard — The Lost Tribe (world premiere)
Katherine Needleman — qua resurget ex favilla
August Klughardt — 5 Schilflieder ("5 Fantasy Pieces"), Op. 28
Nadia Boulanger — Three Pieces for Cello and Piano (arr. Katherine Needleman)
Attending in person: Coffee and pastries at 10am / Concert at 11am. Valid full-time student ID required at the door for student ticket price.
About Katherine Needleman, oboe
Katherine Needleman joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as principal oboist in 2003, the same year she won first prize at the International Double Reed Society's Gillet-Fox Competition.
A lifelong improviser, she has recorded the Marmalade Balloon, an album of improvised, ambient chamber music with distinguished classical music colleagues as well as synthesizers from the 1960s and 1970s. She started writing music down on paper during the COVID-19 pandemic and won the International Double Reed Society's Inaugural Commissioning Competition with her sonata for oboe and piano. They commissioned her to write a work for English horn and piano which received its premiere in July, 2021, with Alison Teale of the BBC Symphony.
A Baltimore native, Ms. Needleman attended high school at the Baltimore School for the Arts but left early to attend the Curtis Institute of Music. She served on the faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University for fifteen years and is currently on faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music.
http://katherineneedleman.com/About Meng Wang, viola
Violist Meng Wang joined The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2017. Prior, he was a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony and principal viola of the Kansas City Symphony.
In addition to his orchestral work, Mr. Wang enjoys an extensive career as a chamber musician. He is deeply committed to the genre and has collaborated with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Lars Vogt, Sharon Robinson, Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo, Joseph Silverstein, Pinchas Zukerman, Lang Lang, Barbara Westphal, and pop star Bono. His performances have taken him throughout the United States and his native China, performing at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, and the Beijing National Theater.
https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/meet-your-orchestra/meng-wang