Natalie Groom and Hui-Chuan Chen

Name: Natalie Groom and Hui-Chuan Chen
Start: 2024-09-21T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Towson University Center For The Arts

Schedule

Sat Sep 21 2024 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Towson University Center For The Arts | Towson, MD

Composers Unheard, Composers Celebrated spotlights works for clarinet and piano that have been previously under appreciated. Clarinetist Natalie Groom (clarinet professor at Towson University) and pianist Hui-Chuan Chen (UMBC) bring these works to light in a program featuring works by:
🎵Marie-Elisabeth von Sachsen-Meiningen
🎵Mojgan Misaghi
🎵Gwyneth Walker
🎵Ke-Chia Chen
🎵Fazil Say
MEET THE PERFORMERS
Dr. Natalie Groom enjoys a multi-hyphenate career as a performer, educator, composer and arts manager in Maryland where she is the clarinet professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and Towson University. She has toured China with the Fed Fox Quintet and performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, Annapolis Symphony, Annapolis Opera, and Tucson Symphony. A few of her performance career highlights include being a featured soloist with the White Mountain Symphony Orchestra and performing at the Kennedy Center, AMP by Strathmore, New World Center, The Anthem, Phillips Collection, Austrian and Spanish Embassies and Goethe-Institut. She has made numerous contributions to The Clarinet journal, and she is co-inventor of the single reed micrometer, Reed Mapper®.
Natalie particularly loves where music intersects activism. In 2018, she and soprano Jennifer Piazza-Pick founded Whistling Hens to perform and commission music by women composers, and create a financially and artistically equitable future for women in music. She was an Artist in Residence at Collington Retirement Community 2019-2020, during which time she provided virtual music experiences during pandemic shutdowns.
A native of Taiwan, Dr. Hui-Chuan Chen began piano lessons at age four and made her debut performance at six. As a successful soloist, chamber musician, collaborative pianist and educator, Hui-Chuan has traveled and performed widely throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. For her solo performance, she has won numerous prizes at competitions including the Wonderlic piano competition in Baltimore, Concerto Competition of International Music Festival in Siena, Italy, Kaohsiung City Competition, Kawai Piano Competition, the University Piano Concerto Competition of NTNU, Taiwan.
As a chamber musician, she performed at Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and Supreme court of the United States. She worked with accomplished musicians such as cellist Amit Peled and Flutist Demarre McGill. Hui-Chuan holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University where she is also a faculty member in the preparatory division. She also serves on the faculty of the University of Maryland Baltimore City, Washington Conservatory of Music and the Heifetz International Music Festival in Virginia.