Internationally-acclaimed violinist Kia-Hui Tan will be a featured guest artist of UL Lafayette’s School of Music at the end of February. She will perform a solo recital in the Choral Hall in Angelle Hall Feb. 29, at 7:30 p.m., and will conduct a master class in the same venue on March 1, at 10 a.m. Both events are free and open to the public.
Dr. Tan recital will include a recent composition by UL Lafayette music professor Dr. Daniel Perttu.
She has performed as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician on five continents including at London’s Barbican Hall and New York’s Carnegie Weill Recital Hall. Described in The Strad as a “violinist whose virtuosity was astonishing,” she has broadcast live on radio, television and the internet, recorded soundtracks for film and theater, and freelanced with many orchestras in the UK and USA, often as concertmaster. A keen advocate of new music, she has performed music of more than 40 living composers and premiered over two dozen solo and chamber works, some of which have been released on CD.
Recently appointed Assistant Professor of Violin at The Ohio State University School of Music, Tan has served as faculty at Cornell University, University of Toledo, The Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland Music School Settlement, and the International Summer Music Festival and School in Colombia. She frequently accepts invitations to present master classes, adjudicate competitions/auditions, and guest conduct youth/college orchestras. Continually expanding her solo repertoire of approximately 200 works, she particularly enjoys collaborating with composers and presenting new or unjustly neglected masterpieces. Her current research and performing interests include the complete works of Eugene Ysaÿe and the vastly unexplored repertory for unaccompanied solo violin.