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Mid-Day Music
The March 30, 2016 Mid-Day Music features Noël Wan, harp. The concert starts at 12:05 p.m. and lasts 1/2 hour. Free, Light lunch follows.
Mid-Day Music, March 30, 2016
The March 30, 2016 Mid-Day Music program features Noël Wan, harp. The concert starts at 12:05 p.m. and lasts approximately one-half hour. The recital is free but donations are gladly accepted. A light lunch follows for a $5 donation.
Hailed as “a huge talent [with] hidden power and amazing maturity" (Bart van Oort), Taiwanese-American harpist Noël Wan (1994) is an international prizewinner and critically acclaimed concert artist currently active in North America and Asia. The youngest winner in the history of the Dutch Harp Festival Competition, Noël is also the first harpist to win the Carmel Music Society Instrumental Competition and the Pacific Musical Society Competition and is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Chimei Arts Foundation Award.
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Other accolades include Second Prize in the 2015 Korea International Harp Competition, Second Prize in the 2013 Nippon International Harp Competition, the Aharon Zvi and Mara Propes Foundation Special Award, and the Forgotten Lore Prize in the 1st Dutch Harp Festival Competition. She holds multiple prizes from the American Harp Society National Competition and has been a semi-finalist in both the 17th and 18th International Harp Contests in Israel. Also a keen and active participant in the discourse of harp pedagogy, Noël has presided on the jury of the 21st CMTANC International Youth Music Competition and currently serves as a Laureate Ambassador—a position she has held since 2011—for the Dutch Harp Festival.
In 2010, she made her international debut performing Alberto Ginastera's Harp Concerto with the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra and appeared on the Dutch Radio 4 program Spiegelzaal at the Concertgebouw. The following year, she toured the Netherlands with guest artists Rosanne Philippens and Remy van Kesteren and released her debut album The Secret Garden. She has been featured in three World Harp Congresses and was invited to commemorate the re-opening of the Taiwan Harp Center in 2013. During the summer of 2015, she concluded the Carmel Music Society's 2014-2015 season with a solo concert and performed in Taipei’s Eslite Concert Hall for the 2015 Taiwan International Harp Festival.
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An avid proponent of new music and interdisciplinary art, Noël has participated in a number of projects during her studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to her involvement with the Illinois Modern Ensemble, she has also performed solo and orchestral works by Augusta Read Thomas, Aaron Jay Kernis, Dmitry Tymoczko, Reynold Tharpe, and Stephen Andrew Taylor. In February 2014, she worked with fellow University of Illinois harpist Claire Happel and Brooklyn/Urbana choreographer Jennifer Monson on La Merita, a dance and live music project involving original choreography by Monson, excerpts from Debussy’s La Mer, and electronic sounds by Zeena Parkins.
Noël is currently a Master of Music candidate studying with Dr. June Han at the Yale School of Music. Previous teachers include Dr. Ann Yeung (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Erika Waardenburg (Conservatorium van Amsterdam), and Cimei Hung (Tainan University of Technology). noelwanharpmusic.com
The concert will be held at St. Paul’s on the Green, 60 East Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06851.
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