Renowned pianist to perform
Serenata artistic director’s grand instrument to get SITE debut
Pamela Epple’s Yamaha concert grand piano has come full circle after living at the Santuario de Guadalupe and the Scottish Rite Temple, plus a short stint at Albuquerque’s Chatter.
The Serenata of Santa Fe artistic director bought the massive instrument from the Santuario with plans to loan it for community concerts.
Now it has a home at SITE Santa Fe.
Pianist Yi-heng Yang will give the piano its SITE debut with a performance of the music of Meredith Monk, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and Johannes Brahms in a family concert at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18.
The SITE location offers Serenata a new and different audience, Epple said.
A professor at The Juilliard School, Yang has been praised for her “astonishing skill and vividness (New York Times)” and “absolute mastery (Boston Musical Intelligencer).”
“She can play in absolutely any style,” Epple said. “These pieces will sound amazing at SITE Santa Fe.”
Yang has appeared with Apollo’s Fire, The Boston Early Music Festival, The New York Philharmonic Ensembles, Sunday Chatter, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apple Hill and the Utrecht Early Music Festival Fringe, and has recorded for numerous labels.
She won first prize at the “Amsterdam Virtuosi” Festival 2011, as well as at The Juilliard School’s Mozart Piano Concerto Competition and the Haddonfield Symphony Concerto Competition. She has been a soloist with The New Juilliard Ensemble, the York Symphony Orchestra of Toronto, and The Juilliard Orchestra.