MUSIC

Three 35 minute sets on the 9 ft Steinway by Di Wu, Mac McCray and Joel Fan. With a repertoire that ranges from Ravel to Brahms to Rachmaninoff, Ms. Wu’s 2008-09 season has her performing across the country. Of her recording of Brahms's Paganini Variations, Books I and II, Harris Goldsmith remarked, "Her account of the Brahms is amazing. She takes all the difficult options (her glissandos are unbelievable!), and she conjures from the piano absolutely gossamer, violinistic textures, joyous humor, and brilliant air-borne tempos."

Joel Fan began his performing career with the NY Philharmonic at age 11 and since has appeared in recital and with orchestras throughout the world to great acclaim. He is also member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project. His first CD debuted at #3 on the Billboard Classical Chart. A graduate of Harvard College, he received a Masters degree from Peabody Conservatory as a student of Leon Fleisher.

Mack McCray, Chairman of the Piano Department of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music has performed under such conductors as Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart, Josef Krips, Leon Fleisher, and Arthur Fiedler.