VC LIVE | Salon de Virtuosi "New Year's Concert"

Tune in here on Thursday, April 20 at 7PM ET for a special performance featuring pianist Andrew Li and tenor Michael St. Peter

We're coming to you from New York City for a concert series with Charlotte White's Salon de Virtuosi.

Described as "New York's best-kept secret," the unique, intimate concert series is dedicated to discovering and supporting talented young musicians at the early stages of their careers.

This stream features Salon de Virtuosi Young Artists pianist Andrew Li and tenor Michael St. Peter performing music by Chopin, Schubert, Brahms, Britten, and more.

A current student at Harvard University and the New England Conservatory of Music, Andrew Li is a winner of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Youth Concerto Competition and the Harvard Music Association Achievement Awards, as well as a prizewinner at numerous international competitions, such as the Cooper International Piano Competition, Hilton Head International Piano Competition, and Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition.

After graduating from the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music, Michael St. Peter joined Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as a Gerdine Young Artist. He holds two Encouragement Awards from The Gerda Lissner Foundation Lieder/Song Competition, and earned Second Prize at the McCammon Voice Competition.

PROGRAM

Andrew Li (Piano)

• Frederic Chopin | Polonaise-Fantasie in A-flat Major, op. 61
• Franz Schubert | Impromptu in G-flat Major, op. 90 no. 3
• Johannes Brahms | Paganini Variations, Book II, op. 35

Michael St. Peter (Tenor ) | Jeremy Chan (Piano)

• Benjamin Britten | Canticle I, ‘My Beloved is Mine and I am His’, op. 40
• Ludwig van Beethoven | Adelaide, op. 46  
• Seth Grosshandler | Trois Mélodies (Poèmes de Clément Marot)
  • De soi-même
  • O Crûauté
  • De sa grand amie
• Seth Grosshandler | Down by the Salley Gardens
• Paolo Tosti | L’alba separa dalla luce l’ombra