Students Heard in 20th Annual Piano Recital
Dustin Yeung of Temple City plays at piano recital
The keyboard students of Eugene and May Kuo, their parents and friends gathered at the Cay Mortenson Auditorium at the Arcadia Public Library for the 20th time on Saturday to demonstrate their progress as pianists.
Each year since 1990 the Kuo’s have brought their budding musicians to the Arcadia Public Library from their Temple City studio.
Music was performed by 54 students in a program of classical style numbers ranging from the simple, such as Johannes Brahms’ “Lullaby” as performed by Anthony Lu, to the quirky, Bela Bartok “Bagpipes” from his Petite Suite No. 5, a short piece performed by Terrance Yuen. The well-dressed students each entered the stage, bowed stiffly, and moved quickly to the piano bench where many of the performers were young enough not to have their legs reach the piano pedals. Extent of pianistic progress seemed correlated to age.
Students participating in Performance 1 early in the afternoon recital were Kevin Liu, Anthony Liu, Bryan Huang, Cynthia Lu, Heidi Yen, Sissi Yu, Roger Kao, Ryan Kao, Aaron Liu, Kenny Bai, Diana Zhang, Alvin Chan, Brian Lo, Jack Zhou, Joshua Li, Jaqueline Shang, Dustan Yeung, Bridget Yu, Amber Wang, Wendy Lee, Selena Wong, Ailin Kang, Gabrielle Guo, Megan Hong, Calvin Tan, Agatha Lo, Vincent Liu and Richard Lu.
In Performance 2, recital students were Matthew Snyder, Jacqueline Li, Anie Liu, Amie Chen, Daphne Zhu, Melissa Jian, Jiani Wu, Kaylynn Chen, David Jin, Darren Sun, Faith Chen, Gavin
Jack Zhou
Tsang, Kimberly Ho, Shirley Zhou, Grace Wong, Irene Chen, Jeanne Kuang, Robert Xue, Randy Huang, Terrance Yuen, Yi-Sheng Zhu, Vivian Huang, Isabel Jin, Wendy Wang, Betty Song and Terri Qiao.
“They (the Kuo’s) are really good instructors, Dustin Yeung’s mother, Sunny, said. Her son admirably performed Bach’s Short Prelude in D-minor and Burgmuller’s “Lullaby”.
By Bill Peters
