Su meng paganini biography

Su Meng (苏萌; born 1988) is a classical guitarist.
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Much sought after as a soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist, she has garnered special attention for her commitment to the music of our time and for.

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Su Meng

In this Chinese name, the family name is Su.

Musical artist

Su Meng (苏萌; born 1988) is a classical guitarist. She was born in Qingdao, Shandong. She started studying classical guitar in 1997 under the tuition of Chen Zhi of the Central Conservatory of Music. In 2006 she was under full scholarship of Manuel Barrueco of the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. She has also performed in a quartet formation with Wang Yameng, Li Jie, and Chen Shanshan (Four Angels). Currently she is concertizing as a soloist and also in duo with Wang Yameng, as the Beijing Guitar Duo.

Competitions

2002: first prize in the 5th Vienna International Guitar Competition. [1]
2005: first prize in the 48th Tokyo International Guitar Competition. [2]
2006: winner of the first Parkening Young Guitarist Competition. [3]
2006: winner of the first Iserlohn Guitarist Competition.[4]
2014: Maryland State Art Council's Individual Artist Award in Classical Solo Performance [5]
2015: winner of the fourth Parkening Guitar Competition.[6]

Discography

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Ms. Piccinini’s repertoire is among the most diverse of today’s preeminent artists. Collaborating with some of the foremost living composers, she has notably commissioned nearly 40 new works for flute, premiering works by John Harbison, Lukas Foss, Michael Colgrass, Paquito D’Rivera, Matthew Hindson, Michael Torke, David Ludwig, and Roberto Sierra, among dozens of others. These projects have taken her across multiple continents, including a recent tour with her rapturously received flute concerto written for her by Christopher Theofanidis, “The Universe in Ecstatic Motion,” which premiered at Grant Park Music Festival and has been traveling to the Aspen Music Festival, Buffalo Philharmonic, BMOP, which is recording the work, and elsewhere.

Other recent premieres include a concerto by Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis, with the London and Rochester Philharmonics, Chautauqua and Detroit Symphonies, and recorded for Naxos with the Peabody Institute Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin; a short solo piece, Siren, Kernis also wrote for her commissioned

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My dad Bob Hill is 91 years old, living with his wife Shirley in Fresno CA. As with so many of his generation he was profoundly shaped by World War Two, and he was part of the D Day invasion on Omaha Beach in Normandy 70 years ago. Years ago he wrote an autobiography, (well actually it was framed a a biography of his first car, a 1917 model T Ford which he still has and drive. With the anniversary of the D Day invasion a fan of his excerpted this chapter from dad's book Full Circle, which I'm pleased to share here. It's good writing, an interesting snap shot of one soldier's memories 70 years later. When I talked with him on Father's day about it he added a couple of asides. He went into Normandy on day three, in relative safety, after bobbing around in the sea while so many others went in ahead, and he said that the only reason he wasn't facing machine gun fire and land mines with the first wave of soldiers was that while the other guys in his Iowa home town were studying agriculture and animal husbandry in high school, he was taking typing and shorthand, the o