Saturday, March 15, 2025 – 2:00pm
Portland Location TBD
Recital followed by Hands-On Time for Newcomers!
Online Video Premiere – Saturday, March 29, 2025 – 2pm on the WEKA YouTube Channel
Anastasia Chin offers a fortepiano recital to celebrate spring with sunny, luminous or tender music, and a few dramatic moments of spring rains and storms. The program will include music by Mozart, Beethoven, Marianna Auenbrugger and Hélène de Montgeroult performed on a Viennese-style fortepiano; a modern copy of a Dulcken instrument from 1790.
Top prize winner ex aequo of the Ninth Mae and Irving Jurow International Harpsichord Competition 2021, fortepianist and harpsichordist Anastasia Chin has been praised for her naturally sensitive, elegant and eloquent performances. She is in frequent demand as soloist, chamber musician, and continuo player on the harpsichord, fortepiano and organ. She was one of three finalists in the 2018 Berkeley Festival International Early Piano Competition. Anastasia is a regular performer on the Bloomington Bach Cantata Project series and the Bloomington Early Music Festival, and also plays regularly with Tonos del Sur, an ensemble specializing in 17th and 18th century Latin American music.
Recent and upcoming engagements include solo fortepiano recitals for the Western Early Keyboard Association and MusicSources (March 2025) Handel’s Messiah with the Oregon Symphony (December 2023), J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with the Indiana University Historical Performance Institute for the Madison Performing Arts Foundation (May 2024), J.S. Bach’s concerti for two and four harpsichords with Seven Hills Baroque (July 2024), concerts with Tonos Del Sur at Notre Dame de Chicago as part of the University of Illinois Chicago Latin American Baroque Music Festival (April 2024) and in Bloomington for the Bloomington Early Music Festival (2022 and 2023), and guest recitals and lecture-recitals at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore (2023 and 2024).
Anastasia holds a Doctor of Music in Early Music (Keyboard) from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she also received her Master of Music in Early Music (Fortepiano) and a Performer Diploma in Harpsichord. Her mentor is eminent harpsichordist and fortepianist Elisabeth Wright, to whom she credits for igniting her passion for early music. Anastasia also holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Singapore, where she studied with renowned pianist Albert Tiu. Her full scholarship for undergraduate studies was sponsored by the Singapore National Arts Council.
Hands-on Time for Newcomers – Stay after the recital to try the fortepiano yourself! Piano teachers, piano students, newcomers and enthusiasts are welcome to experience the feel of a Viennese-style fortepiano under the fingers. Knowing more about the instrument gives valuable insights about the Classical style.
Also, learn more about Viennese-style versus English-style fortepianos in our new video by Carol lei Breckenridge premiering August 17th. – Watch the video
Admission
Free to WEKA members
Free to 18 and under, and college students with ID
Children must be accompanied by an adult
General Admission $25 payable at the door