Wednesday, October 5, 2016
12-1pm | Garden Room 2 | Faculty House | 64 Morningside Dr.
Come join us in the Garden Room at Faculty House, where Students and Music Associates from Columbia University's Music Performance Program will be showcased in a noontime recital series.
Program
Chopin: 10 Etudes Op. 25, Nos. 6-10
Beethoven: Sonata in A major, Op. 101
Biography
Yong Murray is a senior at Columbia University, where he is pursuing a major in mathematics. He currently studies with Alexandre Moutouzkine, a professor at the Manhattan School of Music. Previous teachers include Choong Mo Kang and Ya-fei Chuang. Yong has attended the Orford, Aspen, and Euro Music Festivals, as well as the International Summer Academy of the Salzburg Mozarteum.
Most recently, Yong was awarded 4th prize at the inaugural year of the New York Piano Festival Competition. He was a first prize winner in the 2015 Rondo Forma Competition and received an honorable mention at the 2015 Thousand Islands International Piano Competition. In 2013, Yong was a national finalist in the high school division of the Music Teachers National Association. Yong is the recipient of the Dolan Prize as well as the Richard and Brooke Kamin Rapaport Summer Music Performance Fellowship from Columbia University.
All events are sponsored by Columbia University's Music Performance Program and are free and open to the public.
Mid-Day Music @ Columbia offers live music to a general audience, following the tradition established by Aaron Warner and Isidor Isaac Rabi, great lovers of music whose memories live on at Faculty House.
