Sunday, February 21, 2021
3:00 p.m. Mountain Time - Live-Streamed Premiere
Please
join
Tzu-Feng
Liu
(pianoforte)
and
friends
Megan
Holland
(violin)
and
James
Holland
(cello)
playing
music
for
piano
and
strings,
the
sixth
concert
of
our
34th
season.
Owing
to
current
restrictions
on
live
events
in
New
Mexico
due
to
the
pandemic,
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performance
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in
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own
home.
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Tzu-Feng Liu - bio
Megan Holland - bio
James Holland - bio
Musical Program and Program Notes
Concert Generously Sponsored by Rondi and Duane Thornton
Tsu -Feng Liu
and Friends
Originally from Albuquerque, violinist Megan Holland
has performed throughout the United States, Mexico,
Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands. Reviewers have
characterized her performances as "poised" and
"powerful." Holland has received degrees in music from
the Cleveland Institute of Music and the University of
Southern California. She has previously held principal
positions in the Charleston Symphony, Breckenridge
Music Festival Orchestra, and Opera Southwest. She
performs regularly around the Southwest with groups
including Chatter and Albuquerque Chamber Soloists.
Holland is currently the principal second violin of Santa
Fe Pro Musica. She has also been a recurring guest
lecturer for the University of New Mexico Pedagogy
Department, specializing in the Mozart Violin Concerti
and how to teach them.
Cellist James Holland is a native of Pensacola, Florida.
He holds degrees in cello performance from the
University of Alabama and the Eastman School of Music.
For two years, James was a member of the New World
Symphony, a Miami-based training orchestra under the
direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. In 1996, Holland
was appointed principal cellist of the Charleston (South
Carolina) Symphony Orchestra, a position he held until
his relocation to Albuquerque in 2007 with his wife,
violinist Megan Julyan Holland.
He performs frequently with most of New Mexico’s
musical organizations, including Albuquerque Chamber
Soloists, Chatter, The Figueroa Project, the Placitas
Artists Series, Santa Fe Symphony, and Santa Fe Pro
Musica. He spends his summers in Breckenridge,
Colorado as principal cellist of the Breckenridge Music
Festival orchestra, a position he has held since 1998. He
can also be heard performing the music of Duke
Ellington with jazz legends Eddie Daniels and Roger
Kellaway on the 2013 IPO Recording release, Duke at the
Roadhouse: Live in Santa Fe, which was recently named
Best Jazz Album of the Year by L’Académie du Jazz in
Paris, France. Holland was invited by Daniels and
Kellaway to perform with them again at the 2013 Detroit
Jazz Festival. He maintains a large, active private
teaching studio.
A native of Taiwan, pianist Tzu-Feng Liu performs
intensively throughout the United States, Europe and
Asia as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative
artist. She made her first orchestral debut at age 12 and
her awards include The World International Piano
Competition, Seattle International Piano Festival and
Competition, The Seventh Washington International
Piano Artists Competition, UIUC’s 21st Century Piano
Commission, and UIUC Concerto Competition. Tzu-Feng
has been invited to play at Concert Hall at the Etherredge
Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Foellinger
Great Hall at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts,
historical Anderson House at Washington DC and the
Embassy of the Republic of Poland.
Tzu-Feng’s enthusiasm for contemporary music has led
her to premiere compositions in many new music
festivals including the Electronic Music Midwest
Festival, CHASM Festival, the Society for Electroacoustic
Music in the United States, the John Donald Robb
Composer’s Symposium and Santa Fe International
Festival of Electroacoustic Music. She has received a
D.M.A. degree in piano performance from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2011-2013, she
served as music and piano faculty at Johnson C. Smith
University at Charlotte, NC and currently resides and has
a private studio in Albuquerque, NM.
