We'd like to shine the spotlight on Dr. Emily Hanna Crane and Dr. Hui-Ting Yang who will be performing at Friday's PENDULUM Album Release Concert and SCI Composers Showcase.
An active
performer, Dr. Yang has performed throughout the Czech Republic,
Korea, Taiwan, and the United States. Her extensive repertoire includes an
increasing focus on American living composers, including SCI composer Clifton Callender.
In June 2010 she has
performed seven solo recitals throughout the Czech Republic, including
performances at the highly acclaimed Cesky Krumlov International Music Festival
and the Artist Concert Series in Děčín. Her
concerts included music by Liszt, Ravel, Barber, Brahms, Dvorak, and the world
premiere of Kubík’s Sonata-Portrait.
She also performs regularly as a guest pianist at “The Days of Contemporary
Music” festival in Prague, organized by the Society
of Czech Composers. Her
upcoming events will include Piano Duet/Duo Piano recitals in Taiwan in July, a recording of new work by Kubík
in Prague in November, and a concert tour of newly commissioned works by
American composers in the US, Korea, and Taiwan in 2015.
She has performed at numerous
conferences and festivals including the Cesky Krumlov International Music
Festival, “The Days of Contemporary Music” festival in Prague, the Society of
Composers, Inc. National Conference, International and National Conferences of
the College of Music Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology National
Conference, the Florida State Music Teacher’s Association Annual Conference,
the Festival of New Music at the Florida State University, and the Parma Music
Festival. Her recordings are available through Kum Seoung Records, Arco Diva,
and the online journal Musical
Perspectives, and forthcoming recordings of music by Callender and Kubík
will be released by Navona Records and Neos. Dr. Yang is currently an Assistant
Professor of Piano at Troy University, where she serves as the Coordinator of
Piano Studies and received the Faculty Senate Excellence Award in 2009.
Dr. Crane joined Austin Peay State University in 2008 as the Coordinator of Orchestral Strings and Assistant Professor of Music. She teaches applied violin and viola as well as a variety of academic courses. She also teaches Suzuki and traditional violin through the Community School of the Arts, where she received the Excellence in Teaching Award in 2010.
Dr. Crane is the Director of APSU’s Honor Orchestra Festival and has been an active adjudicator, clinician, and sectional coach for summer festivals and honor orchestras. She was accepted into and completed the Fall 2012 Inaugural Faculty Teaching Program at APSU.
Dr. Crane earned the Doctor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Florida State University where she studied violin with Eliot Chapo, Gary Kosloski, and Karen Clarke.
An avid performer, Dr. Crane has given concerts across North America, Taiwan, and Europe. She is one of the concertmasters of the Gateway Chamber Orchestra, performing a variety of solos including Chamber Symphony (John Adams), the scordatura piccolo violin in the Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 (J. S. Bach), Orphée-Sérénade (William Bolcom), and Chamber Symphony, Op. 9 (Arnold Schönberg). In November 2011 Dr. Crane was featured as the violin soloist in Michael Daugherty's violin concerto Ladder to the Moon. GCO's 2nd commercial recording, Chamber Symphonies, was released by Summit Records in May 2012.
Dr. Crane is a founding member of the Hanna-Yang Duo, with pianist Hui-Ting Yang, dedicated to premiering new works. In 2005, the Duo premiered and recorded Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano (2004) by Ju-hwan Yu, which appears on a recording featuring contemporary Korean composers (Kum-Seong records) released in 2008. The Duo premiered Metamorphoses II by Clifton Callender (commissioned by the Florida State Music Teachers Association and the Hanna-Yang Duo) at the 2009 FSMTA conference in Tallahassee. The Duo has performed Metamorphoses II at the 2011 Southern Chapter College Music Society Conference, the 2011 Florida State University New Music Festival, the 2010 College Music Society National Conference, and will be performing the piece at the 2014 PARMA Music Festival. A recording of the piece can be found on the PARMA Recordings release: PENDULUM, which is out today on Navona Records.
Here is the music which the Hanna-Yang duo will be performing on Friday:
The concert will take place at 10:00 AM on Friday, August 15th, at St. John's Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, NH. We hope to see you there!
