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Lewisville
Lake
Chamber Music Series
SPONSORED BY THE LEWISVILLE LAKE SYMPHONY
Flyer for recital
 Recital
sponsored by
Dr. Pamela Mia Paul
Shannon Lee, violin
Accompanied by Xiao Bo
Chen, piano
 Friday, October 14, 2005 at
7:30pm
Trinity Presbyterian Church
(Map)
5500 Morriss Road, Flower Mound TX
75028
(Just south of Marcus HS, on the other side of the road.)
Concert is free -
a donation to the Symphony is suggested
Jean-Marie Leclair - Sonata for Violin and Piano in D
major, Opus 9, No. 3
1. Un poco andante
2. Allegro
3. Sarabande (Largo)
4. Tambourin (Presto)
Johann Sebastian Bach - Sonata No. 3 in C major
1. Adagio
2. Fuga
3. Largo
4. Allegro assai
--Intermission--
Johannes Brahms - Sonatensatz in c minor
Niccolo Paganini - 2 caprices.
Ernst Chausson - Poeme
Franz Waxman - Carmen Fantasy
More on Shannon Lee
More on Xiao Bo Chen
You can hear Shannon
performing on the From the Top program, regularly broadcast
on Public Radio International stations across the United States.
Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
Dinicu: Hora Staccato (arr. Heifetz) (closing of program)
Shannon is 13 years old, has
already played with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. She will play at
Carnegie Hall in the
2006
Fiddlefest
Shannon Lee
Thirteen-year-old
Shannon Lee began studying the violin at the age of four. Born in
Canada, she moved to Plano, Texas when she was two and first appeared
with orchestra at the age of nine as soloist with the Texas Chamber
Orchestra, having won the Grand Prize in its Young Artist Competition.
In 2004, Shannon won the national top prize among violin, viola, cello,
and bass entrants in the American String Teachers Association (ASTA)
Biennial National Solo Competition’s Junior Division (18 and under). She
was also awarded the Director’s Prize in the 2004 Kingsville
International Competition.
Shannon recently performed with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with
conductor Andrew Litton as a Grand Prize winner of their 2004 Lynn
Harrell Concerto Competition. This year she also has appeared on the
nationally broadcasted radio show, “From the Top” and was awarded the
2005 Bayard H. Friedman Award for Outstanding Student in Performing
Arts.
In November of 2005, she will go on a Texas tour with the Dallas
Symphony. Shannon will make her Carnegie Hall debut at the 2006
Fiddlefest and has been invited by Maestro Christof Perick to perform
with his orchestras in Charlotte, NC and in Germany.
Shannon Lee has studied privately with Jan Mark Sloman since 2000. Her
previous teachers include Paul Landefeld and Ann Grosshans. She
has performed privately and in master class for Itzhak Perlman, Jaime
Laredo, Arnold Steinhardt, Ida Kavafian, and Pamela Frank. Her summer
activities have included working with Mr. Sloman at the Heifetz
International Music Institute in New Hampshire and at The Institute for
Strings, a chamber music program held at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas.
Shannon attends Spring Creek Academy and enjoys reading, swimming, and
computer games. Shannon's favorite books are To Kill a Mockingbird, The
Giver, and the Harry Potter books. Her favorite computer games are Sim
City and Age of Empires, and she also likes experimenting with making
web pages.
Shannon also enjoys playing chamber music with her friends throughout
the year. She plays a 350-year-old three-quarter size Italian
violin made by Maggini, generously loaned to her by Charles Beare
through Michael Selman of J & A Beare.
Xiao Bo Chen
In 2000, Xiao-Bo Chen made
her Carnegie Hall debut after winning a prize in the Frinna Awerbuch
Competition in New York. She has also performed as a soloist with the
Fort Worth Chamber Orchestra. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram said that her
performance of the Beethoven Third Piano Concerto "presented both
thunder and impetuosity."
Xiao-Bo was born into
a musical family in Shanghai and graduated from the prestigious High
School of Shanghai Conservatory of Music with top honors. After coming
to the States in 1992, she received her Performer's Certificate and
Artist Diploma in piano performance from Texas Christian University.
Piano competitions won
by Xiao-Bo including the Maria Canals International Piano Competition in
Spain, and Martin Metorial Piano Competition at TCU. She is currently
pursuing her Master's Degree from University of North Texas in Piano
Performance under the guidance of Dr. Pamela Mia Paul.
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