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Event
Eric Tran, piano (feat. Melissa Lam, cello)
**Please be aware that the Maybeck Studio for the Performing Arts IS A PRIVATE RESIDENCE. The owners make the space available to the community on a limited basis. Please respect our neighbors and the neighborhood. The Maybeck has a strict maximum of 40 seats.
Program:
Brahms: Intermezzi Op. 117
Debussy: Suite Bergamasque
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Chopin: Sonata in B minor Op. 58
Eric Tran (D.M.A.) is a pianist-composer and teacher. He is a native of the Bay Area, CA, graduating with honors from Stanford University and receiving his MM from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. After his piano duo with Nathan Cheung---infamously known as Happy Dog Duo---won 1st prize and the Abild American Music Award at the Ellis Duo Piano Competition, he went on a 2-year performance tour of the US, which included a guest artist performance at the Chautauqua Institution and a historic performance on the Pleyel Double Grand Piano. Tran moved to Madison, earning his DMA with Christopher Taylor at the Mead Witter School of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he now serves as lecturer.
Dr. Tran has performed in Italy, Korea, China, Canada, and in 20 US states. He won multiple awards from the Wideman International Piano Competition, 3rd place from the American Prize, and invitations to the US Chopin National and Virginia Waring International. Tran was selected for a Gilmore Fellowship and has also performed at PianoTexas, Aspen, and Art of the Piano, where he worked with Jonathan Biss, Robert Levin, Leonard Slatkin, and Olga Kern. He was a guest pianist for Maria João Pires' first-ever Partitura Project in the US, where he worked with and performed alongside her.
Tran's compositions have been performed across the US, including by the St. Lawrence String Quartet and the Friction Quartet. The SF Examiner reviewed his String Quartet as "having a tendency to thwart the usual expectations...fascinating." His String Quartet also won the 1st Prize in Composition from the Pacific Musical Society, after which no 1st Prize was awarded for almost a decade. It can be heard on Tran's album "Water" along with other original solo/chamber music. In addition to writing concert music, Tran has composed over 100 pedagogical pieces for different levels.
Tran has given masterclasses and workshops for the Jacobs School of Music Young Pianists program, the National Federation of Music Clubs Conference, and for teachers in the Madison area. His scholarly edition of the Chopin Barcarolle Op. 60 has been downloaded more than 3000 times and has been praised by International Chopin winner Kevin Kenner, Juilliard Professor Hung-Kuan Chen, and Van Cliburn Winner Jon Nakamatsu. Tran's students have won prizes for piano and composition and have gone on to pursue degrees at UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Berklee.
Tran has been involved for over 15 years with the US Open Music Competition, a non-profit organization that holds a comprehensive annual competition for over 1,000 young musicians across 100 events. As a youth, he was its record-setting, 29-time gold medalist. He later held posts as composer-in-residence, accompanist, adjudicator, and program director.
His principal studies were with pianists Sharon Mann, Thomas Schultz, and Christopher Taylor; and with composers Jaroslaw Kapuscinski and Laura Schwendinger. He underwent additional piano studies with Julian Martin, Arie Vardi, and Kevin Kenner. Outside of music, Tran is also a youth chess coach.
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Melissa Lam, age 14, began cello lessons at age 8 with Sergei Riabtchenko. She has won first prize in the 2023 US Open Music Competition, the 2022 International "The Muse" Competition, and the 2022 International JSFest Music Competition.
In January 2023, Melissa performed a solo recital at the Piedmont Center for the Arts, playing major works including Bach's Solo Cello Suite I and Elgars Cello Concerto. Melissa was so happy sharing her love of music with the audience.
As a guest cellist of the San Domenico School Virtuoso Program, Melissa has recently performed Beethoven's Op. 132 quartet, Brahms' second quartet, and Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence.
Passionate about classical music, Melissa considers playing in an ensemble with friends one of life's most enjoyable activities. Her other interests include hanging out with friends and family, playing with her cats, and drawing.
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1537 Euclid Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94708
United States
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