Expired DR. ANDREW LE

The Jansen Art Center welcomes pianist Dr. Andrew Le as part of our 2017-2018 Firefly Concert Series season. Dr. Le will be performing music from Claude Debussy, in part to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Debussy’s passing in 1918.  The performance, despite being from a single composer, is a rich and varied program that encompasses a breadth of styles, moods, and character.  The Etudes, Debussy’s last body of work for solo piano, are enormously difficult and rarely played in their entirety. Born in Vietnam, pianist and Steinway Artist Andrew (Drew) Le has been hailed as “an impressive tour-de-force…a plenitude of poetic nuance” (New York Concert Review), and lauded for his “consummate piano virtuosity” (Goleta Valley Voice) and his “pistonlike precision” (Mountain Tradition). Drew was the first-prize winner of the 2004 Hilton Head International Piano Competition, and is currently serving as Associate Professor of Piano at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He and his wife, violinist Jennifer Walvoord, are the Artistic Directors of the Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck. We hope to see you at this wonderful piano performance in the Chamber Hall in June.