Senior Piano Recital: Ed Wichiencharoen
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., April 24, 2009 --The Williams College Department of Music will present a Senior Recital featuring Ed Wichiencharoen on Sunday, May 17, at 3 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams College campus.This free event is open to the public.
Wichiencharoen’s program includes Haydn’s Piano Sonata No. 20 in C Minor and Brahms’s Rhapsody, opus 79, no. 1 and Intermezzo, opus 118, no. 2.
Born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, Ed began studying piano at the age of seven. After winning the Mahidol National Youth Music Competition, he became a full scholarship student in piano at International Academy of Music, Bangkok, and was awarded the Advanced Performer’s Certificate following jury examination by Trinity College, London. At age thirteen, his study at the academy was cut short; his parents shipped him off to boarding school in Massachusetts where he was no longer forced to practice.
At boarding school, under the guidance of Mariane Lockwood, Ed played the piano for pleasure and practiced occasionally. At Williams, Ed pursues a double major in Economics and French Literature and often frustrates his piano teacher Ed Lawrence. Ed (the student) has performed in Master Classes with Peter Serkin and Russell Sherman, and during his semester abroad, he was enrolled as a full-time piano student of France Clidat at Ecole Normale de Musique, Paris.
Artsbreak at The Clark
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The Williams College Department of Music will present Artsbreak, the final of a series of four music recitals featuring Williams College music students with wonderful performances of classical, jazz, and world music on Sunday, May 10, at 1 p.m. in the main gallery at The Clark in Williamstown.
This free event is open to the public.
This program includes Sarah Lenfest '12, piano with Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in B-flat Major, opus 23, no. 2; Tiffany Yu '12, piano with Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 27, opus 90; and Mimi Lou '09, cello with Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, opus 69. Updated program details can be found on the website. http://music.williams.edu/node/959.
Williams Brass Ensemble to Perform
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The Williams Brass Ensemble, under the direction of Tom Bergeron will give a concert on Sunday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Thompson Memorial Chapel on the Williams College campus.
This free event is open to the public.
Under the direction of Tom Bergeron, the concert features a cross-section of brass and organ repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day performed by a variety of groups, large and small with the organ students of Ed Lawrence.
