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J. S. Bach/Busoni: 1 Awake, the voice command 2 Chaconne Enrique Granados: Romantic Scenes 3 I. Mazurka - Recitative 4 II. Berceuse 5 III. Lento con extasis 6 IV. Allegretto 7 V. Allegro appassionato 8 VI. Epilogo (Andantino Spianato) Clara Wieck Schumann: 9 Andante con Sentimento Robert Schumann/Liszt: 10 Widmung (Dedication) Verdi/Liszt: 11 Concert Paraphrase of "Rigoletto" Total time: 56:06

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An extremely convincing pianist... MIss Ho made fine musical sense.
NEW YORK TIMES

A sensitive use of tone color which consistently makes her playing a joy
ATLANTA JOURNAL

DORIAN HO
Born in Taiwan, Dorian made her New York solo piano debut at Carnegie Recital Hall as Winner of the Thirteenth Annual Artists International Competition. Dorian received her Master of Music Degree from The Juilliard School of Music, Concert Diploma from the Vienna Academy of Music and Art and holds a Ph.D. in Piano Performance from New York University. Her teachers include Beatrice Beauregard, Martin Canin, Eugen List and Bruno Seidlhofer. She has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras in the U. S. Concerto appearances also include the Fine Arts Orchestra of Taiwan, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Slovak Sinfonietta, the State Chamber Orchestra of Kazakhstan, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra of Budapest, the Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic of Czech Republic and the Kiev Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Recently she performed with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in a sold out concert at Shanghai Grand Theater. She has also performed at Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center, Davies Symphony Hall, Herbst Theatre, Atlanta Symphony Hall as well as in Japan, China, Austria, Russia, Switzerland and the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall in Taiwan for former President Chieng Ching-kuo. Her chamber music performances included concerts with the St. Petersburg String Quartet and frequent appearances with the members of the San Francisco Symphony. She has recorded the Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic and the Dvorak Piano Quintet with the Stamic String Quartet of Czech Republic. Recently she performed solo recital in the season opening for Emory Concert Series and Caltech Concert Series. Since 1988, she has been a faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

 

ANTONÍN DVORÁK Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op. 81 1 I Allegro, ma non tanto 2 II Dumka: Andante con moto 3 III Scherzo (Furiant): Molto vivace 4 IV Finale: Allegro ROBERT SCHUMANN Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A, Op. 54 5 I Allegro affettuoso 6 II Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso 7 III Allegro vivace Total time 71:12

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STAMIC QUARTET of Prague
The Stamic Quartet of Prague, formed in 1985, first came to international acclaim when they won the EBU-sponsored International String Quartet Competition in Salzburg in 1986. They have benefitted from the personal guidance of their fellow countryman, the Smetana Quartet, and are now established as worthy members of this great Czech tradition. Their repertoire includes the works of Janacek, Smetana, Borodin, Dvorak and Martinu, as well as Haydn, Mazart, Shostakovich, Schnittke and Haba. The Stamic Quartet travels extensively throughout the USA, Japan, Indonesia and Europe, where they appear in all the major capitals. Their festival appearances have included the Prague Spring, Carinthian Summer, Gstaad, Kuhmo Chamber Music, Helsinki and Montpellier festivals. Recent engagements have included a tour of the USA with concerts at the Kennedy Center, Washington and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, as well as concerts in Canada, Mexico, Israel, the UK (Wigmore Hall), Germany (Beethoven Halle, Bonn), Spain, Macao, Taiwan and Japan.

Vitezslav Cernoch - 1st Violin	Josef Kekula - 2nd Violin
Jan Pìruška -Viola	Vladimír Leixner - Violoncello

BOHEMIAN CHAMBER PHILHARMONIC of Pardubice

Tomás Koutníc, Conductor
Since its creation in 1969, the Haydn-Mozart sized Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic has achieved extraordinary artistic growth under the continued excellence of leadership by the area’s most renowned conductors, among them Libor Pesek, Petr Altrichter, Josef Vlach, Libor Hlavacek, Petr Skvor and Robert Stankowsky, a veritable "who’s who" of internationally acclaimed Czech and Slovak maestros.
More than 300 tours abroad have spread the reputation of the orchestra throughout Europe and Asia, including appearances in Vienna, Milan (at La Scala), Venice, Musich, Amsterdam, Brussels, Tokyo and Osaka.
The Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic has appeared at international festivals such as the Prague Spring Festival, the Berlin Sebastian Bach Days, the Flemish Music Festival, the Bratislava Festival, the Music Festival of Brno, the Festival of Czechoslovak Culture in Cita di Castell, and regularly for the Mozart Society in Dortmund.