[NEohioPAL] Support an artist: fund raising for a pianist

Tue Jul 13 09:43:40 PDT 2010

Student loans and part time jobs worked for a great deal of us.

It was my experience in school that the music schools will fall over themselves to keep their star performers from having to do anything other than practice.  Those of us that were actually going to school because we needed to learn were forced to take lousy PT jobs and press local orchestras for work while the full scholarships went to people who could already go out and win jobs.  Backwards!

Can you shed some light onto what the funds are needed for?  If somebody is on a "top scholarship" from CIM, I am having difficulty seeing what an addition $20,000 could be for.  I am assuming that he has access to the best pianos at CIM and doesn't have to worry about transporting one to gigs-is the top scholarship at CIM less than a full ride?

It is certainly worth a shot to try for this and I would not be surprised if you were able to meet your goals, but that seems like a very high dollar amount to request.

My cynical reaction was: if he is winning all of these competitions and playing with orchestras all over the world already and needs $20,000 so that he can get a diploma...to go and win competitions and play with orchestras all over the world, then something is seeming a little off.

Good luck in your efforts.

> From: johnny at mdifilm.com
> To: neohiopal at listserve.com
> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:31:10 -0400
> Subject: [NEohioPAL] Support an artist: fund raising for a pianist
> 
> 
> FYI, a talented pianist is in neef of help from our community, if you are
> interested to donate and support him, please contact OCAGC (just reply) for
> more information.
> 
> SUMMARY: An extremely talented pianist, Yunjie Chen, needs your help so he
> can study at the Cleveland Institute of Music. His teacher, renowned pianist
> Antonio Pompa-Baldi at CIM, contacted us and sought support from the local
> community on behalf of Yunjie. We have so far raised $2K but we need to
> raise another $18K. 
> 
> Yunjie is from a poor family in China and he has been studying in U.S. the
> past few years, making ends meet by his winnings from competition,
> scholarships, and taking out loans. He will be attending CIM in Fall 2010
> for his final degree: Artist Diploma, with a top scholarship from CIM. But
> it doesn't cover the entire cost, leaving him about $20K short. He needs our
> help to get over this final hump before embarking on his promising career.
> 
> Talent wise, Yunjie Chen has been occasionally compared to the famous
> pianist Lang Lang. He has garnered praise and top honors for his skill and
> musicality ever since he won First Prize in China's National Piano
> Competition at the age of twelve. Since then, he has performed to great
> acclaim throughout his native China and internationally, including a
> performance with the SBS Television and Radio Youth Orchestra at the Sydney
> Opera House in Australia. 
> 
> As a Young Concert Artists winner, Chen made his Washington DC debut at the
> Kennedy Center, his New York debut at the 92nd Street Y, and his Boston
> debut at the Isabella Stewart 
> Gardner Museum during the 2001-2002 seasons. He has given recitals
> throughout China, has performed Beethoven Piano Concerto No.1 with the
> Shanghai Opera Symphony Orchestra and No.2 with the China center symphony
> Orchestra ,has traveled to Hong Kong to perform, and has appeared as soloist
> with the SBS Television and Radio Youth Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House
> in Australia. Recent concerts in the U.S. with orchestra include the Liszt
> Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Paducah (KY) Symphony and the Mozart Piano
> Concerto No. 20 with the Fort Smith Symphony. Chen gave recitals for the JCC
> of Greater Washington and at Southwest Missouri State University. He gave a
> concert tour in Austria and Germany presented by the KAWAI Company. In 2008
> he was invited by the U.S. Ambassador in Beijing, Clark Randt Jr., to give a
> recital at the U.S. Embassy. 
> 
> Chen won top prizes at the International Piano Competition of China, the
> Ettlingen International Competition in Germany and the Maurice M. Clairmont
> Piano Prize of Young Concert Artists. He was a finalist in Busoni
> competition, one of the top 6 of the Santander competition and he
> participated in the Van Cliburn competition. Chen won the third prize in the
> world piano competition in Cincinnati, OH and was a also a medalist in the
> Hilton Head international piano competition 
> 
> Recently, Chen won First Prize at the 2009 International Russian music
> Competition in San Jose, California, and 4th Prize at the 2009 Marguerite
> Long International Piano Competition, where he earned the Prix Serge Arend
> for the best Interpretation of a work by Mozart, and the Prix Germaine
> Mounier for the best Interpretation of a work by Chopin
> 
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