Bilingual Family Concert featuring Yu-Ting Cheng, Clarinetist
Presented by Ya Ya Mandarin Seeds and NACMS
 
Location: Ya Ya Preschool
Time: Sunday, June 14 at 4 to 5 p.m.
Ticket: $20 per family. (max 2 adults + 2 children)
Age: 0-9y
 
Join us for a fun-loaded Dragon Boat Festival family concert and story time!
During this event, your family will:
 
Enjoy the beautiful sound of the Clarinet, performed by a professional musician from New Asian Chamber Music Society.
Immerse in a Dragon Boat Festival story in Mandarin and English.
Gather as a community to sing, move around, and laugh!
 
Yu-Ting Cheng Bio
Hailed for her “extraordinary virtuosity” (CHIMEI Arts Award), as well as for her “sublime playing” and “radiant tone” (Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Corigliano), Dr. Yu-Ting Cheng is an artist of uncommon musical versatility. She has earned recognition as a solo artist by winning numerous top prizes in her career, including the 32nd Chimei Arts Award, the American Prize National Competitions in Instrumental Performance and the Ernst Bacon Award of American Music.
 
Yu-Ting frequently performs across the US, Europe and Asia. Her recent highlights include Webern Symphony and Boulez Polyphonie X with Lucerne Contemporary Orchestra at Berlin Philharmonie and Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre, The Chinese Now Music Festival Concert at Alice Tully Hall, Schubert Die Verschworenen with Maestro Phillip Nuzzo and Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra at Wien Musikverein, Butterfly Lovers Clarinet Concerto (world premiere) with BCO, off-Broadway opera "Watch Night”, "Salome" with Heartbeat Opera,  album “Unseen” by composer Michael Torke.
 
A native of Taipei, Taiwan, Yu-Ting received two master’s degrees from Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and Manhattan School of Music. She also holds a doctoral degree from Stony Brook University. Yu-Ting serves as Principal Clarinet of the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra. She is currently the Music Director of the MusicON Festival.
 
New Asian Music Chamber Society (NACMS) 新亞室內樂協會
The New Asia Chamber Music Society (NACMS), the recipient of the 2016 Huang-Yu-Ting Memorial Award and New Music USA’s project grant, was founded in 2010 by an entrepreneurial group of young Asian-American virtuosi. Propelled by a shared passion for classical chamber music performance, the members of NACMS are prize winners of world-renowned international competitions, graduates from America’s most prestigious music schools, including The Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute, and appear regularly on major stages across the globe.