JOEY CALDERAZZO

PETRONEL MALAN

ALEXANDER PALEY

CLEMENS UNTERREINER

OVIDIO DE FERRARI

MIKHAIL PLETNEV

 

In 2003 Ms. Feng was accepted by Mannes College of Music to pursue her Master's program. In 2005 Ms. Feng participated in the Taos Chamber Music Festival as one of only two pianists who intensly studied with Borromeo, Vermeer, Takács String Quartet.

 Ying Feng's international and national successes include the Nadia Reisenberg Piano Recital Award in 2004, the silver medal of William Kapell International Piano Competition in Maryland in 2003,  the 4th Price of Marguerite Long/Jacque Thibaud International Piano Competition Paris in 1998, as well as many competition prizes earlier in her homeland in the P.R. of China.

 Her performances have included nationwide radio broadcasts on Radio France. She is also the recipient of  a Blüthner concert grand piano prize from the Alfred-Reinhold Foundation.

 

Historical Composers & Artists

"After my coffee and cigar we went to one of the recording rooms where they had a Blüthner piano Well, this Blüthner had the most beautiful singing tone I had ever found. I became quite enthusiastic and decided to play my beloved Barcarolle of Chopin. The piano inspired me. I don’t think I ever played better in my life.“

Arthur Rubinstein 

„My Many Years“ (page 281)

 

„In das Exil nach Amerika begleiteten mich nur zwei Wesen von Bedeutung: meine Frau Natalja und mein kostbarer Blüthner.“

“There are only two important things which I took with me on my way to America. My wife Natalia and my precious Blüthner.”

Sergei Rachmaninoff

 

 “Almost in the middle of the room, the black Blüthner grand stood, free of music, book or photographs. Debussy was proud of his grand piano, and before I played he showed me a new device invented by Blüthner: an extra string set on top of the others. Although not touched by the hammers, it caught the overtones, thus increasing the vibrations and enriching the sonority. This was a piano he had rented during a stay in Bournemouth, and liked so well that he had bought it and had it shipped to Paris.” “He played a number of passages and the tone he extracted from the Blüthner was the loveliest, the most elusive and ethereal I have ever heard”. 

letter from Maurice Dumesnil, friend

Claude Debussy

Debussy's Blüthner at the Musée Labenche