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Press Release

March 13, 2024

For Immediate Release

On Friday, April 19 at 7:30 pm the award-winning classical accordionist Hanzhi Wang performs at the intimate Engelman Recital Hall at Baruch Performing Arts Center (55 Lexington Ave (entrance on 25th St), New York, NY). Tickets are $35, available here.

Highlights of Ms. Wang's program include selections from Bach's Goldberg Variations heard fresh in this arrangement for accordion, a work by Katherine Balch written for Ms. Wang, an original work by the accordionist, and music by Sofia Gubaidulina, Rebecca Clarke, Lili Boulanger, and Astor Piazzolla. Full program details below.

Acclaimed for her “staggering virtuosity,” Ms. Wang is praised for her captivating stage presence and performances that display passion and finesse. A groundbreaking artist, Hanzhi was the first accordionist to win Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the first to be named Musical America’s “New Artist of the Month,” and the first solo accordionist on WQXR Radio’s Young Artists Showcase. Ms. Wang earned her Bachelor’s degree at the China Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She completed her Master’s degree and Soloist Diploma at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with the renowned accordion professor Geir Draugsvoll.

Hanzhi performs her own transcription of Mendelssohn's "Spinning Song"

Behind scene stories of "Impromptu for Hanzhi" with Katherine Balch

Baruch Performing Arts Center is at 55 Lexington Avenue (enter on 25th Street between Third and Lexington Avenues, on the south side of the street) in the heart of Manhattan. Praised for its superb acoustics, the Rosalyn and Irwin Engelman Recital Hall has been called "a perfect hall for chamber music" by Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times. This spring Baruch PAC presentations include the PUBLIQuaret & Harlem Quartets; pianist Maxim Lando; toy-piano/electronic Chromic Duo; Heartbeat Opera's annual spring festival in a co-presentation; and classical accordionist Hanzhi Wang.

Friday, April 19, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Baruch Performing Arts Center presents:

Accordionist Hanzhi Wang

Engelman Recital Hall at Baruch Performing Arts Center

55 Lexington Ave., New York, NY

(enter on 25th St. between 3rd and Lexington Aves)

Tickets are $35 available at bpac.baruch.cuny.edu

PROGRAM

J.S. Bach: selections from Goldberg Variations

Sofia Gubaidulina: De Profundis

Rebecca Clarke: Lullaby & Grotesque

Lili Boulanger: Cortège

Katherine Balch: Impromptu for Hanzhi

Hanzhi Wang: My Story

Astor Piazzolla: Chinquilin de Bachin, Milonga del Angel, and La Muerte del Angel

Program subject to change