SRT Classical Music Series presents: From Juilliard - Music From Traveling Sounds

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Presented By The Saco River Theatre

Saturday, May 27th at 7:30pm EST

Online sale ends: 05/27/17 at 6:00pm EST

The Old White Church

15 Salmon Falls Rd. (Mailing address: PO Box 661 Bar Mills, ME 04004)

Buxton, ME 04093

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Talent

Yi Qun Xu, Yoon Lee, Kenneth Renshaw

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Cellist Yi Qun Xu, a native of China, has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician across the United States. She has won top prizes in China’s national cello competitions as well as second prize at the Juilliard Concerto Competition, first prizes in the 2017 Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra Instrumental Competition, 2008 Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition in Croatia, and the 2010 ASTA National Solo Competition.

The special prize winner of the Anton G. Rubinstein International Piano Competition, Yoon Lee is a solo pianist, chamber musician, and teacher, active in the New York metropolitan area. Yoon has been on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Château de Fontainebleau in France, and the Schumann-Haus Museum in Leipzig, in addition to many other stages of New York, Europe, and Seoul. Her live performances have been featured on WQXR, the American classical radio station that serves the New York metropolitan area, and KBS, the national television station of South Korea.

With playing hailed as "gorgeous, finely detailed...positively ravishing, a marvel of emotional maturity and assurance" (San Francisco Classical Voice) and praised for its "natural and honest sense of communication" (Strad Magazine), American violinist Kenneth Renshaw has appeared as soloist with orchestras throughout the world, including the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Lithuanian National Orchestra, the China Philharmonic, the Jenaer Philharmonie, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the California Symphony, and the Orquestra de Festival Ushuaia. He has given sold-out recitals at the Auditorium du Louvre (Paris), the Menuhin Festival Gstaad (Switzerland), the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festspiele (Germany), and has repeatedly been featured on the national radio stations of Germany, Belgium, Argentina, Lithuania, and the United States. Kenneth won First Prize and the EMCY Prize for Best Semifinal Recital at the 2012 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. He also won First Prize, the Mozart Concerto Prize, and the Sonata Prize at the 2010 Spohr International Violin Competitions, and First Prize at the 2009 Los Angeles Philharmonic competition, and was a Laureate of the 2015 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition of Belgium.