Award winning pianist Sunny Lin Kai Zhang at NEC's Williams Hall 8/21. Free

Canadian Pianist Sunny Lin Kai Zhang 張霖鍇, the second prize winner of 2024 Fou Ts’ong International Concerto Competition, will perform on Thursday 8/21, 7:30 pm at NEC’s Williams Hall as part of the 2025 Summer Concert Series at NEC 夏季系列音乐会. Free admission. Suggested donation: $10 at the door. Children age 6 and under will not be admitted. Details at: https://www.chineseperformingarts.net/contents/summer/2025/0821/index.html

Sunny Lin Kai Zhang won second prize in the Canadian Music Competition, received RCM’s Gold Medal for the highest grade in the LRCM certificate and became a Steinway Young Artist at the age of 16. He is a student of Hung-Kuan Chen at the Juilliard School. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, among others foremost venues in the world. Recent highlights include a sold-out performance of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto with the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra at the Orpheum in 2024.

Program on 8/21/2025 includes:

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp Minor, Op. 19 “Sonata-Fantasy”

Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61

Debussy - Images, 2e série

I. Cloches à travers les feuilles

II. Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109

Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat Minor, Op. 36

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