SEARCY, Ark. — Dr. Sin-Hsing Tsai, Taiwanese pianist and professor of music at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, will perform at Harding University in the Reynolds Center Recital Hall Tuesday, Sept. 21, at 7 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public.
The concert will feature pieces by Robert Schumann, including Symphonic Etudes, Kinderszenen and Sonata in G Minor, to celebrate his bicentennial.
Tsai began playing the piano at age 5 and was admitted into a prestigious government music program in her hometown of Kaohsiung three years later. By age 10 she was named one of the top 10 music students in Taiwan.
While her family resided in Argentina, she earned a bachelor’s degree at 16 and began teaching her peers only two years later. She also holds an Artist Diploma from Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg, Germany, and a doctoral degree from University of Southern California.
Tsai’s career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher has taken her to Asia, Europe, North America and South America, during which she has become fluent in Chinese, Spanish, German and English. Her many awards and honors include the Performance Award from Jeunesses Musicales Competition, Gold Medal from the Conservatorio Nacional de Música, Performance Award from the 21st International Young Artists Peninsula Music Festival, and Outstanding D.M.A. Graduate from University of Southern California.
She has collaborated with composers from Taiwan, Russia, Germany, England, France, Cuba, Argentina and the U.S. and has also has performed Jonathan McNairs’ “Immensity on the Loose” under the AUR label with saxophonist Clint Schmitt.
For more information, contact the Harding Department of Music at 501-279-4343.
