September 12, 2011 — The California State University (CSU) Stanislaus College of the Arts Department of Music is pleased to present Benjamin Boren, piano, in faculty recital on Friday, Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m. Boren will also be joined by violinist Ching-Yi Lin for a duo recital on Friday, Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Both performances will take place in the Bernell and Flora Snider Music Recital Hall located at One University Circle in Turlock. Tickets are $11 general admission, and $8 for seniors, military, students and CSU faculty and staff. Tickets are available online at www.csustan.edu/COA. Proceeds benefit the Department of Music Scholarship Fund. Parking is free for this event only in Lot #3. See University website for maps and directions at www.csustan.edu/directories/maps. More information is available by contacting the College of the Arts at (209) 667-3959 or coa@csustan.edu.
All events and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. Tickets are subject to availability.
About pianist Benjamin Boren: Pianist Benjamin Boren joined the music faculty of CSU Stanislaus in the fall of 2011 as Coordinator of Keyboard Studies and Lecturer in Music Theory. As a soloist and collaborative artist, Boren regularly performs in concerts throughout the United States. He has a broad and extensive repertoire, with a particular fondness for contemporary music.
Boren’s solo debut album, Benjamin Boren plays Carl Vine, was recently released on Enharmonic Records, containing the complete piano sonatas and Anne Landa Preludes of the contemporary Australian composer Carl Vine. He can also be heard on Enharmonic Records as the pianist for Presenting Rachel Patrick, and on Titanic Records with flutist Alexander Viazovtsev in From My Homeland. Additional recording credits include Sighs and Sorrows: Violin Sonata #2 on Chamber Music, Vol. 2 by David Deboor Canfield, with upcoming projects to record Canfield’s complete works for saxophone.
Originally from Noblesville, Indiana, Boren began taking lessons at age six, first performed with orchestra at age eleven, and gave his first solo recital at age twelve. As a youth, his competition prowess led to performances with the Carmel Symphony Orchestra, Muncie Symphony Orchestra, New World Youth Orchestra (Indianapolis, IN), and for the “Suzuki and Friends” Chamber Series.
As a competitor in national and international competitions, Boren has garnered prizes from the Corpus Christi Young Artist Competition, the Kingsville Young Performer’s Competition, the Isabel Scionti Piano Competition, the Elizabeth Harper Vaughn Concerto Competition, the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra Competition, and the Fort Collins Symphony Young Artists Competition.
Boren is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he was awarded first prize at the undergraduate scholarship competitions three consecutive years, and of Indiana University (IU), where he served as an Associate Instructor of Piano for six years and was twice a winner of the IU Travel Grant Competition. His principal teachers have included Andre Watts, Evelyne Brancart, and William Black. As a fellow of the Music Academy of the West, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Banff Summer Music Festival, he had opportunity to study with Jerome Lowenthal, Julian Martin, Gilbert Kalish, Joseph Kalichstein, Claude Frank, and Robert Levin.
About violinist Ching-Yi Lin: Dr. Ching-Yi Lin is Assistant Professor of Violin at Western Kentucky University, where she serves as Concertmaster of The Symphony at WKU, Artist Violin Faculty, and directs the Pre-College Violin/Viola Program. Active as a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Taiwan. Recent performances and master classes have taken her to the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, Norway; Northwestern University; the University of Missouri at Kansas City; and the University of Wyoming. During the summer, Dr. Lin serves on faculty at the Indiana University Summer String Academy and teaches in The Retreat for Professional Violinists and Violists.
Ching-Yi holds performance degrees from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and studied in the Vienna Conservatory from 2001–2003. At IU, she served as an assistant to the internationally renowned Professor Mauricio Fuks. At the Pre-College level, she taught as an instructor at the IU String Academy while working closely with her mentors, Professor Mimi Zweig and Dr. Brenda Brenner. In 2008–09, she acted as co-researcher, violin instructor, and piano accompanist for the Fairview Project—a research project designed to assess how underprivileged first graders can benefit from learning the violin. Her principal teachers include Mauricio Fuks, Boris Kuschnir, Fredell Lack, and Nelli Shkolnikova.
Both performances will take place in the Bernell and Flora Snider Music Recital Hall located at One University Circle in Turlock. Tickets are $11 general admission, and $8 for seniors, military, students and CSU faculty and staff. Tickets are available online at www.csustan.edu/COA. Proceeds benefit the Department of Music Scholarship Fund. Parking is free for this event only in Lot #3. See University website for maps and directions at www.csustan.edu/directories/maps. More information is available by contacting the College of the Arts at (209) 667-3959 or coa@csustan.edu.
All events and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. Tickets are subject to availability.
Boren’s solo debut album, Benjamin Boren plays Carl Vine, was recently released on Enharmonic Records, containing the complete piano sonatas and Anne Landa Preludes of the contemporary Australian composer Carl Vine. He can also be heard on Enharmonic Records as the pianist for Presenting Rachel Patrick, and on Titanic Records with flutist Alexander Viazovtsev in From My Homeland. Additional recording credits include Sighs and Sorrows: Violin Sonata #2 on Chamber Music, Vol. 2 by David Deboor Canfield, with upcoming projects to record Canfield’s complete works for saxophone.
Originally from Noblesville, Indiana, Boren began taking lessons at age six, first performed with orchestra at age eleven, and gave his first solo recital at age twelve. As a youth, his competition prowess led to performances with the Carmel Symphony Orchestra, Muncie Symphony Orchestra, New World Youth Orchestra (Indianapolis, IN), and for the “Suzuki and Friends” Chamber Series.
As a competitor in national and international competitions, Boren has garnered prizes from the Corpus Christi Young Artist Competition, the Kingsville Young Performer’s Competition, the Isabel Scionti Piano Competition, the Elizabeth Harper Vaughn Concerto Competition, the Jefferson Symphony Orchestra Competition, and the Fort Collins Symphony Young Artists Competition.
Boren is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he was awarded first prize at the undergraduate scholarship competitions three consecutive years, and of Indiana University (IU), where he served as an Associate Instructor of Piano for six years and was twice a winner of the IU Travel Grant Competition. His principal teachers have included Andre Watts, Evelyne Brancart, and William Black. As a fellow of the Music Academy of the West, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Banff Summer Music Festival, he had opportunity to study with Jerome Lowenthal, Julian Martin, Gilbert Kalish, Joseph Kalichstein, Claude Frank, and Robert Levin.
Ching-Yi holds performance degrees from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and studied in the Vienna Conservatory from 2001–2003. At IU, she served as an assistant to the internationally renowned Professor Mauricio Fuks. At the Pre-College level, she taught as an instructor at the IU String Academy while working closely with her mentors, Professor Mimi Zweig and Dr. Brenda Brenner. In 2008–09, she acted as co-researcher, violin instructor, and piano accompanist for the Fairview Project—a research project designed to assess how underprivileged first graders can benefit from learning the violin. Her principal teachers include Mauricio Fuks, Boris Kuschnir, Fredell Lack, and Nelli Shkolnikova.