PRESS RELEASE
June 6, 2011
From: Ang Li
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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Celebrates Franz Liszt 200th Birthday with Concerts by International Piano Virtuoso Ang Li
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe will celebrate composer Franz Liszt’s 200th birthday with eight shows performed by internationally-acclaimed piano virtuoso Ang Li. Performances will take place from August 9th through August 23rd. Venues and times appear below.
Ang Li brings a program centred around the ‘Years of Pilgrimage,’ one of the most significant outputs of Liszt as a composer. Ang Li has chosen to include three pieces from the trilogy:-Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Petrarch’s Sonnet 104); Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este (The Fountains of the Villa d’Este); and Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata (After Reading Dante: Fantasia Quasi Sonata). The program also includes three other well-known genres by Liszt: Ballade, Consolations and opera transcription. The program will vary at each performance.
Ms. Li’s performance credits and talents reach well beyond her years. Her youth, talent, personality and audience appeal, truly make her one the world's rising classical piano stars. Her extensive repertoire ranges from early Baroque to contemporary piano music. Hailed as “a potential figure of huge significance on the international concert stage” by the Star-Telegram and “a revelation” by La Press Montréal, Ang Li made her first public appearance at Beijing Concert Hall at age six. Her performances at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe help to kick off her two-year world tour that include performances in India, China, British Columbia, and Ontario Canada and the United States including performances on Radio Television Hong Kong and the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Her solo piano recording features compositions by LISZT, WAGNER, HAYDN, CHOPIN, DEBUSSY along with two Chinese traditional folk songs and will be available at all of her performances.
Join Ang Li at any of the venues below as she honors Franz Liszt on his 200th Birthday. “…From the opening sonorities of Liszt's 1867 arrangement of Wagner's Isolde's Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, we are in the presence of a magnificent interpretive artist. Ang Li's Liszt/Wagner is surging, ecstatic, multi-climatic, thundering, overpowering, tremulous. What more can one say?” - Emma Lou Diemer, Society News, U.S.A.
For interviews and more information about the artist contact:
Ang Li-
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For General concert and ticket information:
http://www.edfringe.com
+44 (0)131 226 0000
In person purchases: Fringe Headquarters 180 High Street
Performances:
Show 1: The Music Box (Auditorium), August 9th 2011, 19:30pm-20:30pm
Box Office: 0131 535 4840
Show 2: The Jazz Bar, August 10th 2011, 16:00-17.00
Box Office: 0131 220 0000 Venue #57
Show 3: The Jazz Bar, August 12th 2011, 14:30-15:30
Box Office: 0131 220 0000 Venue #57
Show 4: Leith on the Fringe @ Out of the Blue Drill Hall, August 14th, 2011, 11:30am-12:15pm
Box office: 0131 226 0000 Venue #195
Show 5: The Jazz Bar, August 20th 2011, 14:30-15:30
Box Office: 0131 220 0000 Venue #57
Show 6: St. Cuthbert's Parish Church, August 22nd 2011, 19:00-20:00
Box Office: 0131 226 0000 Venue #122
Show 7: St. Cuthbert's Parish Church, August 23rd 2011, 19:00-20:00
Box Office: 0131 226 0000 Venue #122
Show 8: Presented by the City of Edinburgh Music School, August 19th 2011, 13:30-14:30
