This concert is dedicated to
the City of Lake Forest
in honor of its
150th anniversary

March 4 & 5, 2011

A Celebration of Virtuosity

featuring the Steinway of Chicago Competition winner

 

James Stephenson

Celebration Overture

Franz Liszt

Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat

Featuring Kyle Jannak-Huang,

2011 Steinway Competition winner

Schubert

Symphony No. 9 in C (“The Great”)

 

Continuing our highly successful collaboration with Steinway of Chicago, we will present the winner of the 2011 Steinway Competition as soloist in one of the great piano concertos, sure to be a memorably dazzling performance. Opening this concert will be an overture by Lake Forest resident and internationally acclaimed composer, James Stephenson, who will be on hand to introduce his music and share the applause for his brilliantly conceived and immediately communicative music. Music of Schubert, the unequalled master of song, will end the concert: his monumental orchestral masterpiece, known everywhere as “The Great” C major symphony.

About our Soloist

Kyle Jannak-Huang, 13, is a scholarship recipient and member of the Music Institute of Chicago's Academy program for gifted pre-college musicians where he studies privately with MIC artist faculty member Brenda Huang for 7 years. He performed in the Young Steinway concert Series at Skokie Library on Sep. 5, 2010. Kyle was named the first prize winner at the Society of American Musicians Competition in 2010 and Illinois state winner in junior division of ISMTA competition in 2009. He also won the first prize at the Awards Competition for Intermediate division in 2008. Kyle was a first place winner of Confucius Music Festival in junior II, junior I and the youth division. He was a selected winner in the Sixth Annual DePaul Concerto Festival for Young Performers and played with Oistrach Symphony Orchestra in 2009. In addition to reading books, he likes to play piano duet and tennis with his twin brother.  Kyle is currently a seventh grader at Walter R. Sundling Junior High School in Palatine.

Read the
March Concert
Program Notes