DATE: May 19 2005, 8 PM
SITE: The BTI Center for the Performing Arts Map
PROGRAM
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Mr. Sun has been featured several times on WQXR Classical Radio as part of the "Young Artist Showcase" program and on NPR as part of the "Performance Today" program. He has been heard in recital in much of the U.S., Japan, China, France, Spain and Italy. Recent appearances include concert tours of Spain, China and Japan, concerto engagements with the Richmond and Winnipeg Symphonies, the National Spanish Orchestra, the Macau Orchestra, and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. Upcoming engagements include a twenty concert-tour of the U.S. and abroad sponsored by the Chopin Foundation of the United States.
Mr. Sun is also highly involved in education and outreach of classical music, where his newest efforts at whitekeys.com has garnered major press attention shortly after its grand-opening, and his professional website, meiting.com, has become a major tour-de-force and a model for other musician's websites.
A native of Shanghai, Mr. Sun arrived in New York at the age of 9, and entered the Professional Children's School and the Mannes College of Music, where he studied Ear Training with Marie Powers, Theory with Robert Cuckson, and Piano with Edward Aldwell. He has since received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Mannes College of Music, studying with Edward Aldwell. Currently he is a C. V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at the Juilliard School, studying with Robert McDonald.
Press quotes
"A man of the future!" - The Village Voice
"A stunning performance" - The Newport Daily News
"A miracle" - The Boston Globe
"Stunning fluid!" - The New York Times
"Remember the name!" - The New York Post
"A star was born!" - Minnesota Star Tribune
"Astonishing" - La Razón, Madrid
"The Shanghai Express!" - El Heraldo de Aragón
Artist Website: Mei-Ting Sun, Pianist
This is the first public performance by great artists whose work has been recreated by software from Zenph Studios. Hear Glenn Gould perform excerpts from Bach's Goldberg Variations, just as he first performed them in 1955. Hear the great French pianist Alfred Cortot exquisitely play a Chopin Prelude as he played it first in 1928.
This work of Zenph Studios, turning audio recordings back into live performances, is considered the "holy grail" problem in music research, because it decodes recordings back into a music format that can be readily manipulated. We're using modern computer techniques, such as those applied to tournament-level chess-playing programs or used to decode the human genome.
Yamaha Artists Services in New York is hand-delivering its finest concert grand piano, the nine-foot Disklavier Pro actually used in the International Piano-e-Competition. In addition to traditional keys, hammers, and strings, the piano is full of fiber optics and computers. This technology is now so good it is used to judge the fine nuances of a world-class piano competition!
A high level of precision is needed to match the ultra-fine gradations of a musician's touch. As a key or pedal is pressed, every millisecond of its timing and every micropressure of its movement is measured precisely and captured in computer files. Zenph is the only implementer worldwide of Yamaha's spec for high-definition MIDI, offering ten times the precision being used by others. Musicians who have heard themselves played back using this high-definition MIDI acclaim its incredible reality. Zenph's unique software processed all the files used in the judging the International Piano-e-Competition in 2004.
When the team at Zenph Studios heard how good Yamaha's high-definition MIDI was — good enough to be at the heart of a piano competition — they asked themselves what it would take to hear great artists of the past play again. The answer is a massive body of "signal processing" software, capable of taking the sound waves of an audio recording and turning them into a precise high-definition MIDI description.
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