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Piano
Genres: classical/contemporary music
The concert pianist Cecilia Li offers a manifold piano
repertoire from classics to contemporary compositions. Her artistic
skills cover soloistic and chamber musical piano concerts as well
as music dramaturgy for the Tanz Atelier Wien, a laboratory for
research in contemporary dance and music. The symbiosis of visual
and acoustic art forms is of fundamental importance for her artistic
work: architecture, fine arts, dance and music are made to interact,
thereby creating a new work of art.
Over the last decades, she has been focusing on various compositional
oeuvres in a dialectical fashion: i.e. contrasting Friedrich Cerha
and J.S. Bach, Giacinto Scelsi and W.A. Mozart, etc. Through the
choice of specific music series – thematically based compositions
from classic to modern music – she opens new soundscapes for
the audience.
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Cecilia Li was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1957. At the age of 8
she started to study piano at the Kwang-Jen High School with Prof.
Iman Wu and Prof. Robert Scholz. It was the first experimental music
class ever held in Taiwan. At the age of 14, Cecilia Li continued
her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mozarteum
Salzburg, in Prof. Kurt Neumüller's concert class. Later she
took courses and lessons with Tatjana Nikolaijewa, Norman Shetler,
Meira Farkas and Sandor Végh. Cecilia Li received various
awards and honours. At the age of 20, she received the concert diploma
with highest honours and the achievement award of the Austrian Federal
Ministry of Science and Research.
Her numerous solo/chamber
music concerts include performances at the Taipei Opera Music
Recital Hall, at the Grand Concert Hall Mozarteum in Salzburg, at
the Chamber Music Festival in Salzburg, at the Strovolos Theatre
in Nicosia/Cyprus, at the Liszt Concert Hall Raiding and a series
of recitals at the Palais Coburg in Vienna. Performances in collaboration
with Tanz Atelier Wien were shown at the 3rd Beijing Art Festival,
at the European Dance Festival Cyprus, at Festspielhaus St. Pölten,
at the styriarte and at Wien Modern, etc.
In 2004, Cecilia Li founded her own CD label shiuling
records.
CD recordings: “Bach Goldberg Variations” published
in 1996 at Bayer Records – Amati, as well as „Debussy
- 12 Préludes pour piano livre II“ and “Hommage
à Erik Satie”, both published in 2004 at shiuling records.
Besides her solo-piano work she established herself as a distinguished
teacher and music advisor. Concerts, TV and radio recordings have
been realized in Europe and Asia.
Since 2009 Cecilia Li is co-author of the International
ChoreoLab Austria (ICLA), a cooperation project between Tanz
Atelier Wien and the Danube University Krems.
Cecilia Li is a Bösendorfer
Artist.
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Discography:
- J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (CD, Amati 1996)
- Hommage à Erik Satie (CD, 2004)
-12 Préludes pour piano, livre II by C. Debussy (CD, 2004)
Performances:
- Sound of Europe, Strovolos Theater in Nicosia
- Solo recital at the Liszt Concert Hall Raiding, Austria
Collaborations:
- A-POLON(IA) with Tanz Atelier Wien, ensemble piece (2009)
- several Solo/Duo productions with Sebastian Prantl (choreographer
and solo dancer)
Awards:
- Würdigungspreis [Award of Honor] of the Federal
Ministry of Science and Research
- award at Jeunesse, Austria in solo piano and chamber music
Contact:
shiuling records
Neustiftgasse 38, 1070 Vienna
telephone +43(0)1/5226044
telefax +43(0)1/5233994
e-mail: office@cecilia-li.com
internet: www.cecilia-li.com
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