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Tien on the cover of Sacramento Talent Magazine!
February, 2012 Issue
1st article in the publication: pages 8-11
Tien Hsieh:
Sacramento Talent Magazine
Read article in a PDF file
Click on the links below to see Tien's recent e-newsletters!
Issue No. 1: August 2009 -
Welcome to the first issue!
Issue No. 2: December 2009 -
Leaping into 2010
Issue No. 3: Fall 2010 -
Fall Conferencing
Issue No. 4: August 2011 -
Greetings from Tien's World
Click here for past events
Monday, January 9, 2012
Association of Performing Arts Presenters
APAP Showcase
3:00 PM
Steinway Hall
109 W 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Corner of 57th Street and 6th Ave (Avenue of the Americas)
Just up the street, 4 blocks, from Hilton New York
No tickets required
No reservations required
Limited seating
Cadence Arts Network: Booth 101
APAP|NYC 2012 Conference
April 4, 2012 - Wednesday
M.A.N. Concert (Music at Noon)
Westminster Presbyterian Church
12:00 PM
1300 N Street
(13th & N Street, facing Capitol Park)
Sacramento, CA 95814
http://www.westminsac.org/music-noon
May 5, 2012 - Saturday
Benefit Concert For The Kenya Project of
UC Davis School of Medicine
NOTE: Venue Update - Fair Oaks, CA 95628
Obtain address: Email kenyaproject2012@googlegroups.com
3:30 PM Reception, Silent Auction
4:30 PM Concert
The Kenya Project strives to promote cultural exchange, improve global health and solidarity in the face of HIV/AIDS.
Tickets: Purchase at door / Student tickets available
The Kenya Project: http://ucdkenyaproject.posterous.com
Limited Seating.
All tickets are tax-deductible.
Questions? Philip Buss: pabuss013@gmail.com
May 8, 2012 - Tuesday
Noontime Concerts
Old St. Mary's Cathedral
12:30 PM
660 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Directions: Noontime Concerts
June, 15, 2012 - Friday
Music + Animals = A Clawssical Music Concert!
7:00-8:30 PM
Three Stages - Recital Hall
10 College Parkway
Folsom, CA 95630
Concert featuring young musicians from the Greater Sacramento Area
All proceeds will benefit animals, including emergency veterinary care, rescue, health screening, adoption and nourishment.
Tickets: $15/$8 - (916) 916-1155
http://clawssicalmusic.org/Tickets.html
Clawssical Music: http://clawssicalmusic.org/Home_Page.html
September 4-8, 2012
Western Arts Alliance Booking Conference
Denver, Colorado
http://www.westarts.org/
October 6, 2012 - Saturday
Solo Recital
Ross Ragland Theater & Cultural Center
218 North 7th Street
Klamath Falls, OR 97601
October 15-18, 2012
Arts Northwest Booking Conference
Boise, Idaho
https://www.artsnw.org/cyber_stage_detail.php?cs=62
March 18, 2013
Live Community Concert Association
Solo Recital and Outreach Program
Cody, Wyoming
April 2, 2013
Lander Community Concert Association
Solo Recital and Outreach program
Lander, Wyoming
NEW CD!
CD Release Date:
November 9, 2010!
Featuring Bach-Busoni, Schubert-Liszt, Chopin-Liszt, Liszt, and, a pair of dedications by Cortese and Schumann-Liszt!
Find CD at:
ArkivMusic
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble.com
Recorded at Blue Wave Productions in Vancouver, BC
on February 6-8, 2010
Instrument: Fazioli 9'2" Concert Grand Piano
Recording Engineer: Ken Burke
Producer: Tien Hsieh
Label: Titanic Records
Liner Notes: Richard E. Rodda
Recording made possible by sponsors Blue Wave Productions and Showcase Pianos | FAZIOLI
"This program centers around the transcriptions of Franz Liszt. Liszt drew significant inspiration from the music of Schubert, Schumann, Chopin and Bach. It is "mostly" transcriptions because Hsieh includes several original pieces of Liszt from Venezia e Napoli and a lovely, meditative piece of new music by Glen Cortese called Elegy (2008). I enjoyed listening to this recording while reading along the scores of the original works. The effect is that Liszt himself was in my living room, creating extempore fantasias on pieces he loved, or spontaneously transcribing and embellishing the music at sight.
Hsieh opens the program with Busoni's transcription of Bach's Toccata, Adagio and Fugue. In that transcription, Busoni expands on the Lisztian tradition. Hsieh plays with grace and energy. She has a keen ear for the music's architecture, and make the piano sing in every register."
American Record Guide, May/June 2011 (P. 209)
Benjamin Katz
"Hsieh's interpretation of Busoni's transcription shows just as much respect for Bach as Busoni did. Her approach to phrasing and dynamics is characteristically nineteenth-century; but that is what we should expect of a reading of Busoni..."
Read full review >>>
September 2, 2011
Stephen Smoliar, Examiner.com
"Clearly rendered and intimately performed"
Sacramento Bee, March 18, 2011
Edward Ortiz
"...I am very pleased that she has returned with her impressively exciting accounts of the Bach-Busoni and also the Bach-Liszt Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor, and the Schumann-Liszt "Widmung" (which was likewise an encore at the end of the 2008 Weill Hall concert). I still retain in my mind's ear beautiful performances of Beethoven's Op. 111 and Schumann's "Humoresque" at that recital.
In commenting upon this recorded anthology, I can reiterate that Tien Hsieh is a formidable virtuoso and also a magnetic musical persona... In terms of color, texture and concentration on detail, she immediately makes you sit up and take notice! The opening measures of the Bach-Busoni Toccata, slashing and sparely pedaled, along with the arranger's clever "Busonifications", recreate the facsimile of the original organ, with its characteristic squeal and visceral intensity. (I might add that the state-of-the-art fidelity of the recording further enhances the physical allure of this thrusting and appropriate interpretation). (Note too, Ms. Hsieh's precise articulation of the Fugue)."
Read the full review: New York Concert Review Inc.
Harris Goldsmith
New York Concert Review
February 25, 2011
"The Busoni and Liszt Bach transcriptions, as well as the Cortese piece, have the effect of solid pillars, with the song transcriptions providing a more lyrical contrast, and Hsieh's readings find links between Busoni and Liszt: she has a way of deploying accent and articulation that suggest the quirky personal charisma each pianist-composer must have had."
James Manheim, AllMusic.com
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