June 2019 Newsletter
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Recent Review on my last UC Berkeley Concert
Dear Friends and Music Supporters, I would like to share the review of my last concert at UC Berkeley CNMAT, where I had a wonderful audience and support of technology. The program was the New Yorker recommended Sonorous Brushes, where I explore the connection between colours and sounds. It is my pleasure to share with you the review and the …
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UC Berkeley Presents a Multi-sensory Concert by Jenny Q Chai
Saturday, March 9, 2019, 8:00pm, CNMAT UC Berkeley presents contemporary classical pianist Jenny Q Chai, described as “dynamic and unconventional” by the New York Times in a thrilling program combining AI with music and visuals, recommended by the New Yorker Video excerpt from Side Effects, Kacper Kowalski (Video), Jaroslaw Kapuscinski (Music), Jenny Q Chai (Piano) Concert Info Sonorous Brushes Claude …
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Invitation to my solo audiovisual concert in NY
Tri-I Noon Recitals at The Rockefeller University Presents Pianist Jenny Q Chai, February 22 A Multi-Sensory Concert Featuring Works by Schumann and Jarosław Kapuściński Watch the Trailer for Kapuściński’s Where’s Chopin? Watch an Excerpt of Kapuściński’s Side Effects: “dynamic and unconventional” – The New York Times New York, NY — On Friday, February 22, 2019 at 12:00pm, Tri-I Noon Recitals …
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Jenny on national TV program with Stanford composer Jarosław Kapuscinski
Check out this new video!
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The Reception of Chinese Media of My Bringing Audiovisual Intermedia Music to China
Dear friends,I just finished one month of concerts in Shanghai, where I performed audiovisual pieces by composer Jarosław Kapuscinski at Shanghai International Arts Festival and Shanghai Oriental Arts Center. It is my great pleasure to introduce intermedia piano works into the Classical Contemporary music world, as well as bringing more contemporary music to China. At Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, I …
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Shanghai Daily News Article on Jenny Q Chai
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The New Yorker Recommends Spectrum Concert
Check out this listing from The New Yorker for my Spectrum concert! For some musicians, every note has its own hue. Others find that certain phrases taste bitter, or feel rough. For Jenny Q Chai, a pianist whose dazzling facility is matched by her deep musicality, some pieces explode with “strong colors and light,” phenomena that she learned to re-create …
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Spectrum Presents Jenny Q Chai in Sonorous Brushes
On Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 8:00pm, Spectrum presents contemporary Chinese-American pianist Jenny Q Chai in Sonorous Brushes, a multi-sensory program employing Chai’s unique form of synesthesia. The program explores repertoire that lives at the intersection of color and sound, exploring this meeting of the senses through important works of the colorful Impressionistic era paired with new works created using …
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Wigmore Hall Presents Pianist Jenny Q Chai
Just as painters and visual artists employ the vast range of colors in the chromatic spectrum, composers and performers use the endless sonic spectrum to create and evoke musical worlds. As a pianist and an amateur painter, I have discovered a personal form of synesthesia – a melding of senses – in regards to how I experience music. This quasi-impressionistic and expressionistic program …
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