Archive for Joel Fan
Joel Fan LIVE on WQXR
Joel Fan joined the WQXR “Midday Masterpieces” program for a live performance and to discuss his new Open Source Music Festival: “Open Source is the simple idea that we share our creative work, and allow others to build upon it freely. We’ve built our whole music festival around this idea.” Joel Fan, Artistic Director, Open Source Music Festival More on the Open Source Music Festival Joel Fan on Reference Recordings:
Joel Fan Live on KUAF
Joel Fan talks with KUAF radio about exploring world music and performs Dia Succari’s La Nuit du Destin live! Joel Fan Recordings
Joel Fan: Dances for Piano and Orchestra HRx Review
Blu-RayDefinition.com gives a top rating to Joel Fan: Dances for Piano and Orchestra! “Pianist Fan endows each selection not only with his fabulous technique but his knowing musicianship. Maestro Christophe Chagnard, founding director of the Northwest Sinfonietta, supplies sensitive accompaniment that partners the piano perfectly in each of these true showpieces for the keyboard. … I happened to have on hand an HDCD version of this program that Joel gifted me last Christmas. While it…
China Daily Features Joel Fan!
Joel Fan’s From China with Love: Connecting Cultures Through Music program is featured in China Daily! Click to read as a PDF “The Kennedy Center in Washington has heard many classics: but this summer pianist Joel Fan brought here something new. His performance in June, entitled “From China with Love: Connecting Cultures through Music“, included both Chinese favorites like Liuyang River and Castle in the Sky and complex Western classics, all intended to give audiences…
Joel Fan Takes Dances for Piano and Orchestra to the Classical Classroom
Joel Fan joins Houston Public Media‘s “Classical Classroom” and features his latest release, Dances for Piano and Orchestra: Dances for Piano and Orchestra JOEL FAN Northwest Sinfonietta Christophe Chagnard, Music Director RR-134HDCD Pierné, Castro, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Weber, Gottschalk, Cadman Buy Now
Joel Fan: Dances For Piano and Orchestra “Sparkles”
ClassicalNet critic Brian Wigman has a new review for Joel Fan and the Northwest Sinfonietta’s Dances for Piano and Orchestra recording: “This diverse and engaging program of works for piano and orchestra reflects Joel Fan’s ongoing commitment to international music. … There is…a real sense of intelligence and enjoyment. Captured in excellent sound, this program has a wide potential audience, from piano students and teachers to the adventurous listener. … I can’t imagine any piano…
Watch Joel Fan’s Kennedy Center Performance
Watch Joel Fan’s Kennedy Center Performance On-Demand! See all RR Joel Fan Recordings Latest Joel Fan Release: Dances for Piano and Orchestra JOEL FAN Northwest Sinfonietta Christophe Chagnard, Music Director RR-134HDCD Pierné, Castro, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Weber, Gottschalk, Cadman Buy Now
Joel Fan Performs at The Kennedy Center
This Wednesday (6/17/15), Joel Fan performs From China with Love–Connecting Cultures through Music at The Kennedy Center! The program showcases both Chinese and Western favorites including Qiganag Chen’s Instants d’un opéra de Pékin which Joel recorded on his World Keys CD. Watch the performance LIVE online at 6pm (ET)! See all RR Joel Fan Recordings Latest Joel Fan Release: Dances for Piano and Orchestra JOEL FAN Northwest Sinfonietta Christophe Chagnard, Music Director RR-134HDCD Pierné, Castro,…
Dances for Piano And Orchestra in American Record Guide
The April/May issue of American Record Guide features a wonderful new review for Joel Fan and the Northwest Sinfonietta’s Dances for Piano and Orchestra recording: “Very enjoyable! A program of short showpieces for piano and orchestra, some well known and some not so well known, like the works by Ricardo Castro Herrera and Charles Wakefield Cadman. It sure beats another disc of standard romantic concertos, though it is every bit as exciting as the best…
Dances for Piano and Orchestra is Superb
The Classical Reviewer‘s Bruce Reader declares Joel Fan’s performances on Dances for Piano and Orchestra “superb”: “Some superbly laid out chords open Gabriel Pierné’s (1863-1937) Fantaisie-ballet, Op. 6 showing, immediately, Joel Fan’s fine technique. He brings a great breadth and assurance before the orchestra enter to take the music forward. … Mexican concert pianist and composer Ricardo Castro Herrera’s (1864-1907) Vals Capricho, Op. 1 brings an opportunity for Joel Fan to display his lovely touch…
Delmarva Public Radio Says to Pick Up Joel Fan’s Dances for Piano And Orchestra
Delmarva Public Radio‘s Kara Dahl Russell says don’t wait any longer to get your copy of Joel Fan and the Northwest Sinfonietta’s Dances for Piano and Orchestra: “…just go pick this one up! These are works for piano and orchestra, played magnificently. These are delightful works that are so often overlooked in the repertoire, only because they are not the big Concertos. Overdue, and very welcome, is this program of works filled with melody, many…
Joel Fan Dances For Piano and Orchestra a “Riveting” Recording
Audiophile Audition‘s Steven Ritter says Joel Fan’s Dances for Piano and Orchestra “is riveting stuff!” “Joel Fan seems to relish these pieces as he attacks them all as if living in another age—crisp, vitally engrossing pianism that will set your feet tapping and your vocal chords humming. The Northwest Sinfonia plays with expertise and rousing commitment in a recording of exceptional analog-ish warmth and sensitivity. This is truly fine stuff.” —Steven Ritter, Audiophile Audition Read…
Joel Fan and Dances for Piano and Orchestra Featured in Gramophone
Gramophone Magazine’s February issue features a wonderful new interview with Joel Fan about his latest Reference Recordings release as well as a wonderful review from Gramophone critic, Donald Rosenberg: “Fan sounds perfectly at home in these virtuoso novelties, which are probably known to few musicians other than intrepid pianists. … turn up the volume to appreciate the fervour and dynamism Fan brings to his challenging duties. He immerses himself in a series of colourful collaborations…
WQXR Reviews Dances for Piano and Orchestra
WQXR reviews the new Joel Fan and Northwest Sinfonietta Dances for Piano and Orchestra release and named it one of last week’s albums of the week! “American pianist Joel Fan is a veteran of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project whose tastes extent well beyond the standard repertoire. He has made several enjoyably eclectic recordings for San Francisco’s Reference Recordings label, the latest featuring an almost-forgotten genre, the single-movement dance piece for piano and orchestra. Hearing…
Weekend News Bits — Joel Fan, Robert Moore, Nadia Shpachenko
Kick off your weekend with these news bits from our recent releases: Joel Fan: Dances For Piano and Orchestra WFMT’s Lisa Flynn Features Dances for Piano And Orchestra: By far the most familiar genre of music for piano and orchestra is the piano concerto. What the seven works gathered on this new CD demonstrate is that the formal concerto is by no means the only way of treating the instrumental combination. Joel Fan, recognized for…