Tony Lu in Concert: Searching and Finding in Three Centuries of Piano Music 7:30 p.m., Bennington Performing Arts Center--The Home of Oldcastle Theatre, 331 Main St., Bennington. Admission: $15; $10 for students.
Tony Lu presents a solo piano recital of works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Ramette. Tony will lead the audiences with short discussions between each piece and explore the sense of searching and finding, closeness and recollection through classical, romantic, and neoclassical period musical language.
Lu is a graduate of Bennington College with concentrations in Mathematics, History and Piano Performance. Tony began to study in the US in 2013 and has performed with various different chamber music groups and orchestras both in high school and college, including Alton Symphony Orchestra and Sage City Symphony. Tony has worked closely and performed with many Bennington College music faculty including Lewis, Yoshiko Sato, Joan Forsyth, Nathaniel Parke, Kaori Washiyama, and Allen Shawn, both on and off campus. Tony also worked as a piano tutor, music history, and analysis lecturer, and accompanist helping students in the music department. Together, Tony is also an active faculty member of Sonata International Piano Camp and Summer Sonatina International Piano Camp in Bennington. In addition to performing, Tony enjoys teaching piano, music history, analysis, classical piano improvisations, as well as chamber music. He is currently in the graduate music program at Austin Peay State University, Tennessee.