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Taipei, Sept. 3 (CNA)
Taiwanese-Austrian pianist Rueibin Chen will honor the 140th anniversary of
Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff's birth with a Sept. 10
⋯⋯ concert in
Taipei, he said from the city on Tuesday.
Chen will perform
Rachmaninoff's three "Nocturnes," "Prelude in D Major, Op. 23 No. 4" and
"Etude-Tableau in D major Op. 39 No. 9," along with the composer's piano
transcriptions of works by Bach, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and other musical
luminaries.
"Rachmaninoff was not only a great composer, but an excellent
arranger," said the pianist, who moved from Taiwan to Austria at age 13 to study
music.
Chen said that Rachmaninoff's emotionally charged music helped put
him at ease during his lonely days abroad, a feeling that he hopes to share with
Taiwanese concertgoers.
"His music has the power to calm me. There was a
time when I didn't see my family for 10 years, and I just put all of those
emotions into playing his music," Chen told reporters.
Chen has been
playing piano since the age of five, when his father began to teach him, and
eventually went on to study under the late revered Russian pianist Lazar
Berman.
He was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the
Republic of China in 2004 and performed at the opening ceremony of Shanghai's
World Expo in 2010.
His concert is set to be held at Taipei's National
Concert Hall.
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