wcw APRIL 2024

focus on the arts
Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota’s
April Lineup
All concerts this month will feature duos
▼ Australian
classical guitarist
Rupert Boyd and
his wife, American
cellist Laura
Metcalf ▶
▲ Violin
Channel
“Rising
Star” Hina
Khuong-Huu
and Steinway
Artist Rohan
De Silva ▶
photo credit: Todd Rosenberg
Artist Series
Concerts’
international
competition
winners
▲ Shannon Lee,
violin, and
Ying Li, piano ▶
Married pianists Catherine Lan
and Tan Lin of Duo Beaux Arts ▶
photo credit: John Beebe
photo credit: Shervin Lainez
Hina Khuong-Huu, Violin Channel
“Rising Star” and first prize winner of
the 2023 Elmar Oliveira International
Violin Competition, performs around
the globe. She has collaborated with
artists such as Grammy Award-winner
Jennifer Koh and shared a stage with
Maxim Vengerov at Carnegie Hall and
Buckingham Palace.
Khuong-Huu and Steinway Artist Rohan
De Silva, whose collaborations with
Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman,
Midori, Joshua Bell and others have
been acclaimed worldwide, will present
a soirée concert at 4:00 pm on April
1 in the music room of the Fischer/
Weisenborne residence in Sarasota.
The duo will perform compositions by
Saint-Saëns, Frank, Wagner, and Ravel.
Single ticket: $60.
Australian classical guitarist Rupert
Boyd and his wife, American cellist
Laura Metcalf have toured the world
as Boyd Meets Girl, sharing their eclectic
mix of music from Schubert to Radiohead
and Beyoncé. The duo arranges
much of their repertoire themselves,
drawing inspiration from artists across
all genres, and they speak from the stage
to create an engaging, conversational
concert experience. This luncheon concert
on April 4 at Sarasota Yacht Club
features, in part, their own arrangements
of works by Lennon/McCartney,
Debussy, Bach, Shaw, and Price. Single
ticket: $68 (includes lunch).
Founded in 2008 by the husband-andwife
team of internationally renowned
pianists Catherine Lan and Tao Lin,
Duo Beaux Arts takes the power of the
piano and doubles it. Known for their
adrenalized performances, this dynamic
duo has performed to critical acclaim
across the U.S., Europe, and China.
This recital features works for piano
“four hands” and two pianos, including
Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in
D major, K448; Schubert’s Fantasie in f
minor for piano four hands, Op 940; and
pieces by Vivaldi, Debussy, and Strauss.
The pair perform at the Studio for Performing
Arts Recital Hall at State College
of Florida on April 16 at 7:30 pm.
Single ticket: $40.
The April concerts conclude at the
Fischer/Weisenborne residence with
Shannon Lee, violin and Ying Li, piano
on April 28 and April 29 at 4:00 p.m. The
first place winners of Artist Series Concerts’
2017 and 2018 international violin
and piano competitions join forces for
this spectacular soirée program.
Lee made her solo debut with the Dallas
Symphony at age 12. Since then, she has
been a prize winner in the Sendai Competition
in Japan, the Queen Elisabeth
Competition in Belgium, and the Shanghai
Isaac Stern Competition.
Li won first place of Young Concert
Artists 2021 Susan Wadsworth International
Auditions, and recently made
her Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center
recital debuts. Single ticket: $60.
For tickets and more information, visit
ArtistSeriesConcerts.org or call
(941) 306-1202.
14 WEST COAST WOMAN APRIL 2024