Master pianist Chen Ruei-bin will
appear in concert September 10 at the National Concert Hall in Taipei,
presenting a program of popular romantic works that will appeal to m
⋯⋯usic lovers of
all ages. Chen lends his unique talent and charm to a program featuring works by
Russia’s beloved Sergei Rachmaninoff including Liebesfreud Liebesleid’,
L'Arlesienne’, Flight of the Bumblebee’, and Midsummer Night's Dream’, as well
as three nocturnes and three preludes that always bring enthusiastic responses
from listeners. Liebesfreud,liebeseid, Rimsky-Korsakoff-Rachmaninoff: Flights of
Bumble bee; nocturne.....
Liebesfreud,liebeseid,
Rimsky-Korsakoff-Rachmaninoff: Flights of Bumble bee;
nocturneLiebesfreud,liebeseid, Rimsky-Korsakoff-Rachmaninoff: Flights of Bumble
bee; nocturne.....
Chen has performed all over the world to rave reviews in
the international media. In Zurich, Switzerland, the Neue Zurcher Zeitung called
him “one of those geniuses that come along once in twenty years. He has immense
energy and intensity that is almost supernatural."
Chen received his first
lessons from his father when he was five. At 13 he traveled from Taiwan to
Austria to continue his music education, becoming the only Asian student of the
late Russian pianist Lazar Berman. Berman once advised Chen, "Music is the most
wonderful thing in this world. Through music, many possibilities are created.
You must transcend challenges and disappointments and persist to the end. It is
vital that you truly recognize the beauty of music." Chen cites this as the one
message that has inspired him most throughout his life.
Chen Ruei-bin has
traveled as a soloist with several orchestras from Taiwan on international
tours, including the Taipei Symphony on its Asian tour, the Kaohsiung City
Traditional Orchestra of Taiwan on tours of the US and Australia, and the
Evergreen Symphony and Taipei Symphony on tours of China. He has also worked
with many world-renowned conductors.
In recent years, in addition to his
solo recitals and orchestral performances of classical pieces, Chen has devoted
a great deal of effort to collaborations and premieres of new solo and piano
concerto works. Two critically-acclaimed piano concerto compositions – the Love
River Concerto depicting intense feelings for the river in Kaohsiung, and Winter
Trilogy, written to celebrate the heritage of Hakka music – were both composed
through collaborations with Chen and premiered worldwide in performances at the
Lincoln Center in New York, the Sydney Opera House and the Hong Kong Cultural
Center.
While not on tour, Chen devotes much of his time to projects that
reflect both his love for music and his compassion for people. In 2012 he was
keynote celebrity performer at the American Red Cross Gala in Los Angeles. That
same year he organized the first National Piano Competition for Disabled
Youngsters in Taiwan. The three winners realized the dream of a lifetime when
they performed on stage with Chen in two large concerts. Also in 2012 he
participated in a special project called "Play Me, I'm Yours" with the Los
Angeles Chamber Orchestra and a benefit concert with the Pasadena Symphony in
honor of the late Mr. Marvin Hamlisch.
Chen Ruei-bin has been closely tied
to the works of Rachmaninoff throughout his career. Rachmaninoff was widely
considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the
last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.
At the
age of sixteen Chen emerged as the winner in a competition in Italy with a
performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Sonata Number 2. Former New York Times
critic Harold C. Schonberg called Chen's interpretation of Rachmaninoff
‘perfect’, the best he had heard by a young artist in a long time.
Chen’s
widest audience was undoubtedly his performance of Rachmaninoff’s 'Rhapsody on a
Theme of Paganini’ as part of the original sound track for Christopher Reeve’s
movie ‘Somewhere in Time’. Now, in honor of the 140th anniversary of
Rachmaninoff's birth, Chen is touring worldwide performing programs dedicated to
the composer. In the coming year he will tour Greater China, performing forty
concerts with orchestras and solo recitals.
www.rueibinchen.com
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Taiwan News2013/09/03
