Tango Dorfmann

Bion Tsang is back on American Public Media's Performance Today. Heard today during the first hour of the broadcast is Bion's performance of Ofer Ben-Amots' "Tango Dorfmann" for Violin, Cello and Piano with violinist Mark Fewer and pianist Sue Grace. The recording was made during a live performance on June 18, 2013, at Packard Hall in Colorado Springs during the Colorado College Summer Music Festival.

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Foster Fantasy

Bion Tsang is on American Public Media's Performance Today for the second time this week. Heard today closing the second hour of the broadcast is Bion's performance of John Novacek's "Foster Fantasy" for Clarinet, Cello and Piano with clarinetist Nathan Williams and pianist/composer John Novacek. The recording was made during a marathon concert in Bates Recital Hall in Austin, TX on Friday, September 14, 2012 celebrating Bion's first ten years at the UT Butler School of Music.

Performance Today is broadcast on 260 public radio stations across the country and is heard by about 1.3 million people each week. To find out where and when Performance Today is broadcast in your area, visit performancetoday.org.

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Performance Today

Bion Tsang is back on American Public Media's Performance Today. Heard today closing the first hour of the broadcast is Bion's performance of John Novacek's "Foster Fantasy" for Clarinet, Cello and Piano with clarinetist Nathan Williams and pianist/composer John Novacek. The recording was made during a marathon concert in Bates Recital Hall in Austin, TX on Friday, September 14, 2012 celebrating Bion's first ten years at the UT Butler School of Music.

Performance Today is broadcast on 260 public radio stations across the country and is heard by about 1.3 million people each week. To find out where and when Performance Today is broadcast in your area, visit performancetoday.org.

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Four Play

Concert Review

Chamber Music International opens the season with a terrific foursome's exciting performance of Dvořák.

September 21, 2014

Friday night’s concert of chamber works at Dallas City Performance Hall, the first concert of Chamber Music International’s season, featured some of the most delicious, juiciest Dvořák heard in that hall in a while.

Pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine, violinist Carmit Zori, violist Atar Arad and cellist Bion Tsang collaborated for an at turns moving, exciting, and lyrical Piano Quartet in E flat Major in the second half of Friday’s program. All four musicians pointedly emphasized Dvořák’s quirkier harmonies, especially in the first movement, helping listeners to hear aspects of the piece that might have eluded them in previous encounters. In the second movement, Tsang’s lyrical solo passages were as gorgeous and nuanced as they should have been, and the fourth movement was ferociously electrifying. The concert was well worth attending just to hear this piece.

By J. Robin Coffelt

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The joy of excellent chamber music

Concert Review

The Islands' Weekly Eastsound, WA August 20, 2014

From Lincoln Center to Lopez Center. That was the route of the Pablo Ziegler Classical Tango Quartet who played to a full Lopez Center audience on August 10.

Ziegler’s artful piano pieces included a World Premiere performance for four hands with Jon Kimura Parker; Hector Del Curto’s bandoneon cried and murmured and warbled love and anguish; Jisso Ok’s astonishing cello danced with her lithe movements and captured the audience; Pedro Giraudo’s double bass played skillfully with the ears of listeners.

Visiting cellist Bion Tsang had people whispering of Yo Yo Ma; Owen Kotler’s clarinet transported us to a Manhattan jazz club; and Aloysia Friedmann’s viola dreamed us into Oblivion.

On Lopez it took not two to tango, but 200 supporters including 73 Lopezians from the Alexanders to Zapalac and 14 businesses and organizations, plus the 170 concert goers who purchased tickets to bring this amazing music here.

Bravo Lopez, thank you for supporting excellent chamber music on Lopez! Let’s do it again next year!

By Micki Ryan

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