Music Fest Perugia in Vancouver

Music Fest Perugia is a summer classical music festival held annually since 2007 in Perugia, Italy for high-level young classical musicians.

The festival was founded by world renowned Steinway Artist Ilana Vered and Dr. Peter Hermes and it currently hosts more than 200 students, 50 professors each year.

The festival attracts advanced-level young classical musicians from all over the world, who get the opportunity to perform concerti with orchestra as well as participate in lessons and master classes and perform in marathon recitals and in chamber music events.

The concerts take place in halls such as Basilica di San Pietro, Sala dei Notari, Teatro Pavone, most of them famous for their extraordinary acoustics.

Many of the festival's students have won prizes at national and international levels, including YoungArts, MTNA, Canadian Music Competition, Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition, Young Concert Artists, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Cleveland International Piano Competition, the Southeastern Piano Festival and many others. They have continued their education at prestigious universities and conservatories, including Curtis Institute of Music, Juilliard School of Music, Stanford University, Columbia University, etc.

For 2023 Music Fest Perugia registration, please visit its website:

https://www.musicfestperugia.net/

Ilana Vered, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, is a concert pianist and professor of piano.

From age 13 to 15 Vered attended the Paris Conservatoire, which awarded her first prize in piano upon her graduation. She continued her music studies at the Juilliard School under Rosina Lhévinne. In 1961 she won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions.

Vered has performed across the world with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the London Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, and Philharmonia, the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Japan NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, and the Israel Philharmonic.

She has performed as soloist with conductors Leopold Stokowski, Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Rudolph Kempe, Kirill Kondrashin, Michael Tilson Thomas, Edo de Waart, Leonard Slatkin, Sergiu Comissiona, James Conlon, Andrew Davis, Kurt Sanderling, Jean-Claude Casadesus, Gary Bertini, Walter Weller, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Moshe Atzmon, Raymond Leppard, Mendi Rodan, James Judd, Lawrence Foster, Matthias Bamert, Mariss Janson and Osmo Vanska. She has also taught master classes and has founded at least two festivals, the Summerfest Series of Rutgers University and Music Fest Perugia in Perugia, Italy.

She made the world premiere complete recording of Moszkowski's 15 Études de Virtuosité, Op. 72, in 1970. She also recorded the five Beethoven concertos as well as the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2, Rachmaninoff Paganini Rhapsody, Mozart Concerto No. 21 and 23 and Brahms Concerto No. 2.

In 2007, Vered founded Music Fest Perugia, which has grown to become an internationally renowned classical music festival. It attracts top, aspiring young classical musicians from around the world.

Steinway Artist Wayne Weng’s playing has been described as “vibrant and immensely musical,” and as having “delicacy amounting to almost reverence through gossamer touch” (Wiltshire Gazette & Herald). His “ability to modulate the piano’s sound coupled with his great ear easily gave him an edge” (Sioux City Journal) to win the first prize at the 2013 Iowa International Piano Competition. He was also a prizewinner at the Washington International Competition for Piano, where his performance in the final round “raised the excitement level of the afternoon several notches.” (The Washington Post).

As a soloist as well as a collaborator, Wayne Weng has performed in Canada, the United States, England, Italy, France, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Serbia, Egypt, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He has performed concerti with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, Cascade Symphony Orchestra, Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, West Coast Symphony, Philharmonic Orchestra of University of Alicante, Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Seattle, and the Avanti Orchestra.

Wayne Weng’s musical interests and skills extend beyond classical music. An avid improviser, he enjoys drawing connections between classical and non-classical music by thematically incorporating music from the American Songbook to the Beatles to Radiohead into his recital programs.

https://www.wayneweng.com/

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