Wednesday, September 16, 2026 @ 3:00pm in the Daniel Recital Hall FREE
Award-winning pianist Hui Wu presents a lecture-recital as part of her Glassopedia tour, named for her Grammy-considered album of the same title. The program opens with Philip Glass’ powerful Wichita Vortex Sutra, featuring Allen Ginsberg’s poem, and concludes with Chopin’s enduring Twelve Études, Op. 25.
Program:
Philip Glass: Wichita Vortex Sutra
10 Glass Etudes, Book 1
12 Chopin Etudes, Op. 25
About Hui Wu
Hui Wu.
Hailed by The New York Times for her "sparkling" artistry, pianist, composer, and creative producer Hui Wu reshapes the classical concert into a multidimensional experience. Rooted in both contemporary and classical repertoire, she moves effortlessly between the concert-hall piano and the majestic pipes of a centuries-old cathedral organ. In addition to her international performance career, Hui is a sought-after teacher and visionary educator.
With the new release of her album of music by Philip Glass, Hui continues to champion modern and contemporary works through performances that include a World Premiere with Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet—where her playing and musical direction became an integral part of the choreography—and chamber collaborations with Martin Chalifour, Rainer Honeck, Stefan Dohr, and Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson.
Hui is an acclaimed global artist, featured at prestigious festivals and concert halls around the world, including the Taos School of Music, Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, PianoTexas, and the Beijing International Music Festival and Academy. She has collaborated with leading orchestras such as the Salzburg Philharmonics, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the New Juilliard Ensemble, and has appeared at renowned venues including Walt Disney Concert Hall and Lincoln Center’s Tully Scope Festival.
As a composer and advocate for new music, Hui has created works performed in collaboration with The Juilliard School’s Dance Division and premiered compositions by leading contemporary composers such as Chad Cannon, Matthew Aucoin, Du Yun, Huang Ruo, Chen Yi, Jeffrey Parola, Eric Nathan, Paul Chihara, and Elliott Schwartz.
Born in China, Hui began piano studies at age four and gave her debut recital at thirteen in GuangDong Concert Hall performing all twelve Chopin Études. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, both on full scholarship, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the USC Thornton School of Music, studying with Jing Song Xian, Matti Raekallio, Jerome Lowenthal, Stewart Gordon, Philip Lasser, and Donald Crockett. She is also a prizewinner of numerous competitions, including the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition, the Murray Dranoff International Artists Competition, the Beverly Hills National Auditions, the Ettlingen International Competition, the Steinway International Piano Competition, the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Award, and the Golden Clock Piano Competition in China.
Hui has served as Southern Festival Chair for the California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT) and is a frequent adjudicator for competitions across the United States. She currently teaches at the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts and Moorpark College. A visionary educator, she independently designed and launched a fully supported online collegiate piano curriculum years before such programs became commonplace.
Wednesday, November 18, 2026 @ 3:00pm in the Daniel Recital Hall FREE
The BCCM Keyboard Studies program is proud to present renowned pianist Mikhail Voskresensky, former chair and distinguished professor at the Moscow Conservatory. A most influential pianist and teacher, Voskresensky has received honors at numerous prestigious competitions and has performed the complete Mozart piano concertos, as well as Chopin’s entire solo piano works in a single season. His students have earned 126 prizes at international competitions, including 55 first prizes. Voskresensky will present a short program, followed by a masterclass for BCCM piano students.
About Mikhail Voskresensky
Mikhail Voskresensky.
The last celebrated pianist representing the old Russian school in the XXth century, Mikhail Voskresensky "proved an imposing, magnetic presence" as noted by the Los Angeles Times. He has given hundreds of recitals on stages of Salzburg Mozarteum, St. Petersburg Grand Philharmonic Hall, Prague Rudolfinum, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Hall, Beijing Forbidden City Hall, Moscow Conservatory Grand Hall, Mexico City Palacio de Bellas Artes, Budapest Franz Liszt Academy, and Rio de Janeiro Theatro Municipal, just to name a few.
Mr. Voskresensky has soloed with some of the finest orchestras in the world, such as the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchester, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, China Philharmonic, Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic, Russian National Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic, Hungarian Radio Symphony, Mariinsky Orchestra, Christchurch Symphony, and many others. He has enjoyed performing with more than 100 conductors, including the extraordinary Franz Konwitschny, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Kurt Mazur, Kirill Kondrashin, Charles Dutoit, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, John Pritchard, Arvīds Jansons, and Yury Temirkanov.
The most memorable moment of Mr. Voskresensky’s artistic life was when he studied with Dmitry Shostakovich on his Second Piano Concerto, giving its European Premiere at the Prague Spring Festival in the presence of the composer. He has also championed contemporary works dedicated to him by Edison Denisov and Yuri Butsko, and presented World Premieres of a newly discovered Sonata in E flat minor by Scriabin and Piano Concerto by Taneev. He distinguished himself with pianistic feats like playing all of Chopin in 9 recitals, all Beethoven’s Sonatas in 7 recitals, all 27 Mozart Concertos in 4 seasons and recordings, and by recording all Scriabin Sonatas. His other numerous discs are released on the Melodia, Triton, Victor, Classical Records, Aquarius, and Supraphon labels.
Mr. Voskresensky graduated from Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and since his early successes at competitions, including winning top prizes at the First Schumann International Competition and First Van Cliburn International Competition, he has reached artistic heights and earned accolades like the title of National Artist of Russia, Order of the Rising Sun by The Emperor of Japan, and the Nikolai Rubinstein Gold Medal. Following the steps of his teacher, Lev Oborin, he rose to become one of the most influential professors in the history of his alma mater. His preeminent teaching is in demand in many of the world’s major conservatories and universities. This success can be measured by the fact that his students have won 120 top prizes at the world’s major international competitions.
Born in Berdiansk, Ukraine, Mr. Voskresensky protested the unjust war waged by Russia in 2022 and left the country. Upon his arrival in the USA, he has seen overwhelming support and interest from the music community and the media at large. The Atlantic welcomed him and CNN featured him on Amanpour. His recent and future engagements include concerts and masterclasses at Aspen, PianoTexas, and Northern Lights Festivals, Eastman School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Bard College, Georgia University, Rowan University, John Perry Academy of Music, and The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Currently, Mr. Voskresensky is a Visiting Professor at the Juilliard School in New York.
Voskresensky tours extensively in Europe. Over the past two years, he has performed solo concerts in Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and The Hague. Every summer, he plays with an orchestra at the Perugia Festival.
