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Catching Up with Joel Fan!
We decided to catch up with what the fabulous Joel Fan will be doing this summer and came across a fun festival concert that we just had to mention. Also in our search we found some great customer reviews of “West of the Sun: Music of the Americas” on Amazon.com that we hadn’t seen before! On July 22, Joel Fan will be performing with the Northport Community Band at the 45th Annual Huntington Summer Arts…
Some praise for World Keys!
Last month, Reference Recordings artist Joel Fan performed in Oakland, CA, and a few of us from Reference Recordings were able to make it out to the concert (Read our feedback here). But of course, we weren’t the only ones there! Today we wanted to share an article from the San Francisco Classical Voice written leading up to the concert. Another reason we like the article so much is that she talks about our first…
Joel Fan Concert Response and News
Last weekend, Joel Fan performed in Oakland, California, and a few of the Reference Recordings staff were able to make it to the concert. We were (as always) wowed by his extremely fine playing. Joel played an extremely difficult program and pulled it off tremendously! We especially enjoyed hearing him play the ferociously difficult Scriabin #5 and Schoenberg Opus 11 — both of which we had not heard him play before. Also during Joel’s visit…
Joel Fan & Yo-Yo Ma – Silk Road Video
Since we’ve been relaying messages via Twitter about Joel Fan in concert and on tour, we thought it would be fun to share (what looks like) an old video of Joel in rehearsal with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble: You can also find this video in our Joel Fan Playlist on the Reference Recordings YouTube Channel!
Joel Fan Concert Review – Washington Post
Joel Fan Washington Post Review In performance: Joel FanWeb-only review: Fan gives fantastic close to National Gallery’s American Music Festivalby Joe Banno Pianist Joel Fan (a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble) played a terrific lunchtime recital at the National Gallery on Wednesday of works by American composers who have embraced both the romantic past and a more dissonant present. Elliott Carter’s seminal 1945 Piano Sonata may have ranked as the program’s most significant…
Joel Fan Concert Review from the Las Vegas Sun
Philharmonic shows poise in weekend aural safari By Joe Brown (contact)Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 The Philharmonic was joined for George Gershwin’s Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra by New York-based pianist Joel Fan, who brought a crisp bite and precision to the piece’s visually showy, technically difficult (and loud) hammering runs on the Steinway grand piano… To Read the review in it’s entirety, please visit the Las Vegas Sun website by clicking HERE
Three Questions with Joel Fan
In their excitement for Joel Fan’s performance with the Las Vegas Philharmonic on November 21st, Las Vegas Weekly did a feature with our artist Joel Fan that we thought we’d share with you: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 (2:30 p.m.)Pianist Joel FanThe Billboard top-10 classical artist will accompany the Las Vegas Philharmonic for Gershwin’s “Piano Concerto in F” as part of the second concert in this season’s Masterworks Series.What attracted you to “Concerto in F,” and…
Joel Fan Video!
Joel Fan is now on YouTube! He has a whole YouTube Channel in fact! You can find it by clicking the last link, or find them all in our Joel Fan playlist on the Reference Recordings YouTube Channel. Here is a video of Joel playing a Margaret Bonds’ piece that can be found on his latest release from Reference Recordings:
Keeping up with our Artists
In attempt to keep ourselves and our readers up-to-date with our Artists, sometimes we find them in unexpected places. This past weekend, Joel Fan took on the feat of performing two Liszt pieces with the Minot Symphony Orchestra in Minot, North Dakota during the symphony’s opening weekend! Check out the pre-concert story: Minot Symphony Orchestra opens its new season of ‘Myths and Legends’By CEECY NUCKER, Correspondent, [email protected] Daily News minotdailynews.com Maestro Dennis Simons will open…
Yo-Yo Ma talks about Joel Fan
Check out this really interesting interview with Yo-Yo Ma in which he briefly talks about the talents of our artist Joel Fan!
Concerts
Well today we wanted to give our artists a plug and let you know of some upcoming concerts in case you are in the areas where they will be! First the Dallas Wind Symphony Just finished a major performance earlier this week of Carmina Burana, Ron Nelson’s Savannah River Holiday Overture, Jonathan Newman’s As the scent of spring rain…, and Nehlybel’s Trittico (which is an RR release)! The DWS has their next performance on Tuesday,…
Joel Fan Concert Review – SFCV
The following is a review from the San Francisco Classical Voice, it can be found in it’s original form by clicking here. Or just continue to read on: Well-Deserved Fan-dom Old First Concerts By Marianne Lipanovich Joel Fan can be described in any number of ways. He’s a brilliant pianist who made his performing debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 11. He’s an artist who has won praise for his technical expertise, lyrical…
FREE HRx Downloads!
We wanted to let our readers know that we have provided some complimentary HRx downloads to Computer Audiophile, and they are available on their website! You will have to go to the Computer Audiophile website to download them. The downloads are the Gottschalk: Suis Moi! –Caprice from Joel Fan’s newest release West of the Sun, and Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa: Hopak from the Minnesota Orchestra album Exotic Dances from the Opera. Here is the information from the…
Reference Recordings News!
Today we would just like to give some news on what is going on at Reference Recordings. First and foremost, our End of Summer SALE is still going on! So, if you wanted to expand your libraries with some HRx recordings, or HDCD recordings, or check out our two new SACD releases, now is the time! Or if there have been some recordings you had been thinking about getting, now is when you should load…
Minnesota Public Radio Review of West of the Sun by Joel Fan
Greetings Readers: We wanted to share this review with you of Joel Fan’s latest album West of the Sun from Minnesota Public Radio. We are including the full audio segment and the written review. We hope you enjoy the review, and if you still haven’t purchased your own copy of this album you are truly missing out! by Julie Amacher, Minnesota Public Radio St. Paul, Minn. — Joel Fan’s new disc explores music by North…