George Li, piano

“A bracing, fearless account…Mr. Li’s playing combined youthful abandon with utter command.” – The New York Times

PROGRAM

SCHUMANN:  Abegg Variations, Op. 1  

SCHUMANN:  Davidsbündlertänze (Dances of the League of David)

DEBUSSY:  Images, Book 1

MUSSORGSKY:  Pictures at an Exhibition

With effortless grace, poised authority, and brilliant virtuosity far beyond his years, pianist George Li performs a colorful solo program.  

Since winning the Silver Medal at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Li has rapidly established a major international reputation and performs regularly with some of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors. Li gave his first public performance at Boston’s Steinway Hall at the age of ten, and in 2011 performed for President Obama at the White House in an evening honoring Chancellor Angela Merkel. Among Li’s many prizes, he was the recipient of the 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, a recipient of the 2012 Gilmore Young Artist Award, and the First Prize winner of the 2010 Young Concert Artists International Auditions.

Praised by the Washington Post for combining “staggering technical prowess, a sense of command and depth of expression,” pianist George Li possesses an effortless grace, poised authority, and brilliant virtuosity far beyond his years. Since winning the Silver Medal at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Li has rapidly established a major international reputation and performs regularly with some of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, such as Dudamel, Gaffigan, Gergiev, Gimeno, Honeck, Orozco-Estrada, Petrenko, Robertson, Pintscher, Slatkin, Temirkanov, Tilson Thomas, Long Yu, and Xian Zhang.