Pianist Dr. Chen Wang “Journey to Love & Peace”

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Young Global Leadership Foundation was proud to present pianist, DR. CHEN WANG’s, Journey to Love & Peace on Sunday, October 23, 2022, at 7:30pm to a full house at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall. This marked her New York Concert Debut which was met with great admiration and applause. The concert was sponsored by the Young Global Leadership Foundation with UN NGO ECOSOC Special Consultative Status, together with Michigan State University School of Music, Australian International Culture Industries Association, Global Stress Initiative, Global Corporate Social Responsibility Foundation, Global Wealth Elite Club, International Strategies Alliance & Good News Network, to name a few. The recital promoted awareness, advocacy & action for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) & launched the recital tour that Wang is performing this year.

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Wang performed Lizst’s Liebestraume and Chinese classics from the Tang Dynasty with great passion and brilliance. TONY and Award Winning Broadway Producer of “Passing Strange”, Regional Theater and Film , Vasi Laurence states:

“In difficult life moments, music can be a way to express who you are and Chen excels in that. Her playing is powerful and compelling and transports you on a very visceral level from deep reflection and calm to feeling joyful and exultant. Chen’s versatility and choice of music by Franz Liszt illustrates her ability to play some of the most technically difficult music that has ever been composed for piano…and the inclusion of music from the Tang Dynasty (which was the Golden Age of culture and the arts) was beautiful and exquisite. Chen is a fascinating and unique pianist who mesmerized the audience for ninety minutes. During intermission a patron turned to me and said, “She has magic fingers. She is magnificent.” I am sure that we will see and hear more of Chen Wang on the global concert stage. Congresswoman Grace Meng issued her a certificate of Outstanding and Invaluable Service to the Community.

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A patron stated:
“The program Dr. Wang offered was important to note as it was at the top level in piano repertoire in terms of musicality and technical difficulty. The success of her performance can be attributed to Dr. Wang’s reputation as a promising and respected talent in piano performance. The extreme difficulty of the repertoire, which included Franz Liszt’s Soirées de Vienne, S.427, No. 6 (Valses caprices d’après Schubert), Three Petrach Sonnets from Années de pèlerinage, S.161, Second Year, and “La danza from Soirées musicales de Rossini, S. 424 gained the attention of music aficionados. Pianists must possess outstanding skills to execute the works of Liszt successfully. Dr. Wang met that challenge. Her extraordinary musical expression was truly effective in delivering the dramatic impact to the audience which warranted two standing ovations after the last piece finished.
Her musicianship was fine and profound, with strong and well controlled connections of all phrases. Her rare skills allow her to deliver music in ways others cannot and distinguishes her from other musicians.”

Chinese pianist Chen Wang began her piano studies at the age of five & was admitted to the middle school affiliated with Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at the age of eleven. She continued her studies in the United States with famous pianists & educators including Deborah Moriarty, Panayis Lyras, Stephen Drury & William Heiles at the New England Conservatory, U niversity of Illinois at Urbana Champaign & Michigan State University. She holds a DMA in Piano Performance from Michigan State University.

In China, Chen was invited to be a spokesperson & guest pianist in the ninth World’s Children Call for Peace event in Beijing, together with over 100 institutions & children from more than 60 countries. In the US, Chen has given performances for the City of Boston, Omaha Summit at the 53 rd Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway Meeting & Massachusetts General Hospital. She received the Global Youth Leadership Award at the United Nations Headquarters Global Social Responsibility Summit in New York in 2018. This year, she gave solo piano performance at World First Metaverse Lantern Festival & North America Virtual Lunar New Year Gala. While working towards a double performance major in piano & percussion in the U.S. on a full scholarship, Chen discovered the interconnection between the two & developed her own performance style. Incorporating East Asian philosophy & western classical music, from Chinese poetry in the Tang Dynasty to Italian Renaissance literature, she explores the connections among nations, people & nature.

Chen Wang is Vice President of the Arts of Young Global Leadership Foundation (United Nations NGO ECOSOC Member), Vice Chairman & Guest Artist of Australian International Culture Industries Association & a member of expert committee of the China Association for Promoting Children’s Culture & Art. Chen is a multi-winner of several international piano competitions. She is a signed artist on Ivory Classics Music & ChinaWise USA.

For more information on Dr. Chen Wang go to www.cwangmusic.org.

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Géza von Habsburg-Lothringen studied at the Universities of Fribourg and Bern (Switzerland), Munich and Florence and has a Ph.D. in History of Art and Archeology. He was Chairman of Christie’s in Switzerland and in Europe for 18 years; taught at the New York School of Design; at the Bard Graduate Center for the Decorative Art; at New York University; and lectured for a decade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He published 15 books on the History of Collecting, Russian Art and Fabergé, and organized five international exhibitions attracting over 2 million visitors.

At present he serves as Visiting Professor at Shijitsu University, Okayama (Japan); Fabergé Guest Curator at the Virginia Museum of Art, where he wrote the catalogue of its collection of Russian Art and organized the exhibition “Fabergé Revealed”; and Curatorial Director of the Fabergé Company. As President of the International Friends of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, he speaks regularly on Habsburg family history, artistic patronage and collecting.

He is President of the International Friends of the Budapest Museum of Applied Art; Advisory Board Member of the Hermitage Foundation; of the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg; and Board Member of the Friends of Dresden.

He forms part of the International Council of Museums (ICOM); American Association of Museums (AAM); Appraisers Association of America, New York (AAA); American Association of Jewelry Historians; of the The British Society of Jewellery Historians; and is member of the Vetting Committees of The European Fine Arts Fair (TEFAF) in Maastricht; The American International Fine Arts Fair (AIFAF) in Palm Beach; and The International Fine Art & Antique Dealer’s Show in New York.

CURRICULUM VITAE
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
VIRGINIA FINE ARTS MUSEUM, RICHMOND, FABERGÉ GUEST CURATOR 2010-present
FABERGÉ USA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR 1994-2007; CURATORIAL DIRECTOR 2007-present
FABERGÉ ARTS FOUNDATION, CURATOR, DIRECTOR 1991-1994
HABSBURG FINE ART INTERNATIONAL AUCTIONEERS, CHAIRMAN GENEVA AND NEW YORK 1987-1991
CHRISTIE, MANSON & WOODS AUCTIONEERS, CHAIRMAN (SWITZERLAND) 1968-1984; CHAIRMAN (EUROPE) 1980-1984.

EXHIBITIONS CURATED (SELECTION)
KUNSTHALLE, MUNICH, 2003: Fabergé und Cartier, Rivalen am Zarenhof
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ART, RICHMOND, 2001: Fabergé Revealed
METROPOLIAN MUSEUM, NEW YORK; FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO; RICHMOND, VA; NEW ORLEANS, LA; CLEVELAND, OH, 1996/7: Fabergé in America
STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM, ST. PETERSBURG; MUSÉE DES ARTS DÉCORATIFS, PARIS;
V&A MUSEUM, LONDON, 1993/94: Fabergé, Imperial Court Jeweler
KUNSTHALLE, MUNICH 1986: Fabergé Hofjuwelier der Zaren

BOOKS PUBLISHED (SELECTION)
“Fabergé Revealed”, Richmond Museum Press 2011
“Fabergé. Treasures of Imperial Russia”, The Link of Times Foundation, Moscow 2004 (Russian/English)
“Fabergé/Cartier. Rivalen am Zarenhof”, Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2003 (German)
“Princely Treasures”, Vendome Press, New York 1997 (English, French, German and Italian editions)
“Fabergé in America”, San Francisco Museum of Fine Art, 1996
“Fabergé. Imperial Jeweller” (co-authored with Dr. Marina Lopato), Zwemmer, London 1993 (Russian, French, English)

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