Tiffany Poon is a 22 year-old music student at Yale. In the past year, her stream of self-produced video diary entries (vlogs) have made her a classical music star on YouTube and Instagram. But she feels strongly that she is a pianist FIRST, who happens to make videos on the side. Meet Tiffany Poon on this episode of Performance Today.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Bassoon Concerto B-flat Major: Movement 3 Rondo: tempo di menuetto
Willard Elliot, bassoon; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor
Mozart Horn Concerto No. 3, Bassoon Concerto, Oboe Concerto
DG 415 104
Frederic Chopin: Etude Op. 10 No.4
Tiffany Poon, piano
private recording
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K.159 in C Major
Tiffany Poon, piano
private recording
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 458, The Hunt
Escher String Quartet
Music@Menlo, Stent Family Hall, Menlo School, Atherton, CA
Bohuslav Martinu: Duo no 1 for Violin and Cello
Danbi Um, violin; Nicholas Canellakis, cello
Music@Menlo, The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, Atherton, CA
Hour 2
Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio No. 37 in D minor, Hob. XV:23 Mvmt III. Finale
Beaux Arts Trio
Haydn: Complete Piano Trios
Philips 432 070
William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony
The Orchestra Now; Leon Botstein, conductor
Bard College, The Sosnoff Theatre at The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
Ingram Marshall: Authentic Presence
Sarah Cahill, piano
Interlochen Presents, Dendrinos Chapel, Interlochen, MI
Eugene Ysaye: Sonata No. 3 "Ballade" for Solo Violin, Op. 27
Benjamin Beilman, violin
The Bank of America Chamber Music Series, Spoleto Festival USA, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC
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