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SUMMARY:Ning An, piano
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 Pianist Ning An is a rare pianist who has been 
 hailed as a musician who "combines a flawless 
 technique and mastery of the instrument with 
 an expressive power that is fueled by profound 
 and insightful understanding." (New York 
 Concert Review)  His top prizes from the Queen 
 Elizabeth, Cleveland, and William Kapell Piano 
 competitions led to performances from Carnegie's 
 Weill Recital Hall, Salle Verdi (Milan), 
 to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, 
 China. He has been invited to perform at numerous 
 festivals, including the International 
 Chopin Festival in Duszinski, Poland, the Gina 
 Bachauer Piano Festival in Salt Lake City, 
 New Hampshire's Monadnock Music Festival, the 
 Bourglinster Festival in Luxembourg, and the 
 Interlaken Music Festival in Switzerland. 
 A passionate chamber musician as well as soloist, 
 he has performed with groups such as the 
 Ysaye, Daedalus, and Takacs Quartets as well 
 as instrumentalists James Buswell, Paul Neubauer, 
 Andres Diaz and James Ehnes.\n
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 Since making 
 his orchestral debut at the age of 16 with 
 the Cleveland Orchestra, Mr. An has been 
 a featured soloist with orchestras such as the 
 London Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Radio Symphony 
 Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, the Stuttgart 
 Philarmonic, Tivoli Symphony Orchestra, 
 the Belgian National Symphony, the Flemish Radio 
 Symphony, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, 
 and the Taipei Symphony Orchestra under the 
 batons of conductors such as Vladimir Fedosseyev, 
 Jorg-Peter Weigle, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, 
 etc. Mr. An was also a featured soloist 
 during the 100th Anniversary American Tour 
 made by the Warsaw Philharmonic and Maestro Kazmierz 
 Kord.\n
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 Ning An has also been a top 
 prizewinner of the Paloma O'Shea Santander Competition, 
 the Tivoli International Piano Competition, 
 the Rachmaninoff International Piano 
 Competition and the Alfred Cortot Prize winner 
 of the International Chopin Piano Competition.\n
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 Mr. 
 An began his musical studies at 
 the Cleveland Institute of Music with Olga Radosavljevich 
 and Sergei Babayan. Subsequently, 
 Mr. An continued his studies under the tutelage 
 of Russell Sherman at the New England Conservatory 
 of Music.\n
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LOCATION:Cook Recital Hall
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