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SUMMARY:Violin and Piano Recital: Lin He (Violin) and Michael Gurt (Piano)
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 Program\n
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 Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano, 
 B. 42	 	Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)\n
 I. Agitato\n
 II. 
 Molto quieto\n
 III. Moderato\n
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 Sonata 
 No. 2 for Violin and Piano, Op. 36a		Ferruccio 
 Busoni (1866-1924)\n
 I. Langsam\n
 II. Presto\n
 III. 
 Andanta, piuttosto grave. Andante con moto\n
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 Performer 
 bios\n
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 Lin He, violin\n
 Lin 
 He is Associate Professor of Violin at the 
 Louisiana State University School of Music and 
 Associate Concertmaster of the Baton Rouge 
 Symphony. Prof. He also teaches at the Las Vegas 
 Chamber Music Institute, Summit Music Festival 
 and Institute, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, 
 InterHarmony International Summer Music 
 Festival, Montecito International Music Festival 
 and BayView Music Festival.\n
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 He has performed 
 at Carnegie Hall with principal players 
 from the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic 
 and Philadelphia Orchestra. Over the 
 past seasons, he has performed the Bruch Scottish 
 Fantasy with the Sonoma County Philharmonic, 
 Chausson Poeme and Korngold Concerto with 
 the Rapides Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn 
 Violin Concerto with the Shippensburg Symphony, 
 and the Sibelius Concerto with the Lake 
 Charles Symphony. The 2024-2025 season of concerts 
 include recitals in Oklahoma City University, 
 Houghton University, University of Oklahoma, 
 and the US premiere of the first edition 
 of Verdi's String Quartet.  His recordings 
 include "French Sonatas for Violin and 
 Piano" with pianist Gregory Sioles and 
 "Trios by Saint-Saëns, Piston, and Zemlinsky: 
 Piano Trios" with cellist Daniel Cassin 
 and pianist Constance Carroll, both released 
 by Centaur Records.\n
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 Recently, he shared 
 the stage with the Shanghai String Quartet 
 and violinists Charles Castleman and Richard 
 Lin and presented solo recitals and master 
 classes at Arizona State University, Florida 
 State University, Longy School of Music, San 
 Francisco Conservatory of Music, University of 
 Houston, University of Las Vegas, University 
 of North Texas, and University Alberta, Edmonton, 
 Canada.\n
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 Born in Shanghai, China, Lin 
 He began his musical training began at the 
 age of five and received his doctorate from the 
 Eastman School of Music, where he studied 
 under the tutelage of Zvi Zeitlin. Other major 
 influences include Steven Staryk, Sylvia Rosenberg, 
 Kyung Sun Lee, Paul Kantor and Dating 
 He, concertmaster of the Shanghai Opera House 
 for 22 years.  \n
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 Michael Gurt, piano\n
 Michael 
 Gurt is Paula Garvey Manship Distinguished 
 Professor of Piano at Louisiana State University. 
 He won First Prize in the Gina Bachauer 
 International Piano Competition in 1982, 
 and was a prize winner in international competitions 
 in Pretoria, South Africa, and Sydney, 
 Australia. He has performed as soloist with 
 the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, 
 the Utah Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, 
 the Memphis Symphony, the Capetown Symphony, 
 the China National Symphony Orchestra, and 
 the Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in Durban, 
 South Africa.\n
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 He has made solo appearances 
 in Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall 
 (Carnegie Hall) in New York, Ambassador Auditorium 
 in Los Angeles, Orchestra Hall in Detroit, 
 City Hall in Hong Kong, the Victorian Arts 
 Center in Melbourne, Australia, Baxter Hall 
 in Capetown, South Africa, and the Attaturk 
 Cultural Center in Istanbul, Turkey. He has made 
 several tours of Brazil and recently performed 
 in Porto and Lisbon, Portugal. \n
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 Gurt 
 has collaborated with the Takacs String Quartet 
 and the Cassatt String Quartet, and has performed 
 at the Australian Festival of Chamber 
 Music in Townsville, Queensland. He has served 
 on the juries of both the Gina Bachauer International 
 Piano Competition and the New Orleans 
 International Piano Competition, and he 
 has recorded on the Naxos, Centaur, and Redwood 
 labels.\n
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 Gurt serves as Piano Mentor at 
 the National Music Festival in Chestertown, 
 Maryland, and was the chair of the piano department 
 at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival from 
 1987 through 2007. He has served as Piano 
 Chair of the Louisiana Music Teachers Association, 
 and has taught at two summer music seminars 
 held at Tunghai University in Taichung, 
 Taiwan. Gurt holds degrees from the University 
 of Michigan and the Juilliard School.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Bob Patterer\n
 Contact email: events@frib.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://frib.msu.edu/gateway/events/concert-07mar2025 
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LOCATION:Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
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