Name: Beach, Chopin, and Tchaikovsky
Start: 2026-02-25T19:30:00
Location: Curtis Institute of Music, Field Concert Hall

Curtis Institute of Music students perform over 100 free recitals during the school year, held on most Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings. Admission requires advance registration and is complimentary.

Please note: Performance programs are subject to last-minute changes and cancellations.

Program

BEACH	Browning Songs Brett Michael Hunter, tenor Jinhyun Park, piano
BARTÓK	Contrasts Bade Dastan, violin Chin-I Lee, clarinet Elijah Orlenko, piano
DEBUSSY	Sonata in D minor Carson Ling-Efird, cello Mark Livshits, piano
CHOPIN	Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20 Ásta Dóra Finnsdóttir, piano
	Intermission
TCHAIKOVSKY	Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 Zhiyuan Qian, violin Delvan Lin, piano

Fiona Yangyue Cheen, from Jingzhou City, China, studying piano with Ignat Solzhenitsyn, is the Eileen Flissler Memorial Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.

Ásta Dóra Finnsdóttir, from Gardabaer, Iceland, studying piano with Ignat Solzhenitsyn, is a Curtis Institute of Music Fellow and entered Curtis in 2025.

Chin-I Lee, from Taipei, Taiwan, studying clarinet with Anthony McGill and YaoGuang Zhai, is the Ruth and Eugene Helmer Fellow and entered Curtis in 2024.

Delvan Lin, from Auckland, New Zealand, studying piano with Michelle Cann, is the Karolyn Kirksey Holler Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.

Carson Ling-Efird, from Seattle, studying cello with Nicholas Canellakis, Yumi Kendall, Christine Lee, and Peter Wiley, is the Arthur and Hilda Stander Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.

Elijah Orlenko, from Toronto, studying piano with Michelle Cann, is the Wike Family Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.

Zhiyuan Qian, from Shanghai, studying violin with Erin Keefe, is a Curtis Institute of Music Fellow and entered Curtis in 2025.

Mark Livshits, staff pianist