After years of study, members of the class of 2022 share their talents and passion through a final graduation recital. Admission requires advance reservation and is complimentary.

Tonight’s program features Fuki Wang as she performs her graduation recital. Fuki opens the recital with two contrasting selections from J.S. Bach’s Sonata in E minor, first the mournful Andante followed by the cheery Allegro. She continues with two pieces for solo flute, and finishes the first half with Jolivet’s invigorating Chant de Linos.

The second half of Fuki’s program features Prokofiev’s flute sonata, his only work written for flute and piano. Fuki concludes her recital with Busoni’s Divertimento.

A livestream of the performance will also be available on Curtis’s Facebook and YouTube pages.

The Edith L. and Robert Prostkoff Memorial Concert Series. The Curtis Institute of Music receives funding from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Program

J.S. BACH	Selections, Sonata in E minor, BWV 1034 Andante Allegro Fuki Wang, flute Jenny Chen, piano
RASMUSSEN	Pièce De Concours
MONTALBETTI	Memento Emmanuaile Fuki Wang, flute
JOLIVET	Chant de Linos Fuki Wang, flute Jenny Chen, piano
INTERMISSION
PROKOFIEV	Sonata in D major, Op. 94 Moderato Scherzo: Allegretto scherzando Andante Allegro con brio
BUSONI	Divertimento, Op. 52 Fuki Wang, flute Jenny Chen, piano

Fuki Wang, from Taichung, Taiwan, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2018 and studies flute with Jeffrey Khaner. All students at Curtis receive merit-based, full-tuition scholarships, and Ms. Wang is the Edwin B. Garrigues Annual Fellow.

Ms. Wang won first prize in the Flute Society of Greater Philadelphia’s Young Artist Competition in 2020 as well as the Chimei Arts Award and first prize in the 2015 Flute Competition in Taiwan. She is also a winner in the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan’s International Music Nova Competition.
Ms. Wang has attended the Domaine Forget International Music Festival and the Moritzburg Festival Academy, where she served as principal flute. She has had the opportunity to work with artists such as William Bennett, Philippe Bernold, Mathieu DuFour, Sebastian Jacot, Ulla Miilmann, Emmanuel Pahud, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

Ms. Wang began playing the flute at age eight and previously studied with Jim Walker of the Colburn School. She was selected as a teen diplomatic envoy of Taiwan in 2016.

Jenny Chen, staff pianist