My solo and chamber performance debut at Carnegie Hall!

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Ascension (2024), for Fangfang Liu & Matthew McDowell

by Harry Long Ngo (b.2000)

World Premier

Matthew McDowell, viola

Fangfang Liu, guitar

Livestream: music.yale.edu/live

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Solo Concert

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A performance by students from faculty guitarist Benjamin Verdery’s studio.

Ferdinand Rebay: Sonata in D minor for viola and guitar
Dušan Bogdanovic: Quatre pièces intimes (1997), for guitar and double bass
Karl Pilss: Sonatine in A major for oboe and guitar (1942)
David Lang: warmth (2006), for 2 electric guitars
Phillip Houghton: Two Night Movements for violin and guitar (1995)
Robert Beaser: Selections from Mountain Songs for flute and guitar (1985)
Benjamin Verdery: Give, for guitar ensemble

This performance is estimated to run 1 hour and 45 minutes, including one intermission.

Free admission, no registration required

Livestream: https://music.yale.edu/live

“In celebration of its 50th anniversary year, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music is inviting singers in the greater New Haven area to participate in an ecumenical hymn festival in Woolsey Hall on May 5, 2024, at 4 p.m. The goal is to gather a community choir of 300 voices to lead an audience of over 1,000 around the theme “All Creation Sings,” celebrating the diversity of our creation and our duty as faithful people to care for it. Conducted by Dr. Felicia Barber, the choir will have as its core the Yale Camerata to be accompanied by brass ensemble, gospel instrumentalists, and organists Dr. Nathaniel Gumbs and Dr. Bruce Neswick. Drs. Barbara Brown Taylor and James Forbes will be our preachers for the occasion. If you enjoy and have experience singing in choirs, we invite you to participate.”

The music will include various genres of sacred music, ranging from traditional and contemporary hymns, spirituals, gospel, and more.

Ferdinand Rebay(1880-1953): Sonate für Bratsche und Gitarre d-moll (1934)

Matthew McDowell, viola

Fangfang Liu, guitar

Works by three English composers who died in 1623: William Byrd, Philip Rosseter, and Thomas Weelkes.

Also the year of printing of Williams Shakespeare’s First Folio.

Featuring music from the Beinecke’s collection.

Performed by Members of the 24th Ben Verdery Maui Masterclass.

Performed by the members of the 24th Ben Verdery Maui Masterclass.

Three works by Chinese composers are dedicated to Fangfang Liu, Xie, Zhang and the world premiere of Hear the Wind by Tao Huang(b.1983).

Fangfang will be performing in different settings including solo, chamber, and guitar ensemble.

Jacobs Guitar Ensemble plays Concierto para resurgir(2020) by Jose Cura(b.1962)

Daniel Duarte, conductor

Fangfang will be performing her lute debut, as well as a member of Jacobs Guitar Ensemble.