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<p>Students from the UW keyboard program compete for outside judges for a chance to perform with the UW Symphony.</p>
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<h3>Program</h3>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Competitor: Kane Lefei Chang</strong>; Accompanist: <strong>Isabella Jingshi Zhao<br /></strong>Performing: Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No.5 in F major Op.103, “Egyptian”,  2nd and 3rd movements</p>

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<p>Guest pianist Murray McLachlan leads a master class with UW piano students. </p>
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<p>Faculty artist Stephen Price, organ, is joined by UW colleague Rachel Lee Priday, violin, in performing the Suite for Violin and Organ, Op. 150, by Joseph Rheinberger, as well as solo organ works from the French Symphonic tradition. Price is the UW's inaugural Paul B. Fritts Endowed Faculty Fellow in Organ Studies. </p>
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<h3>Biographies</h3>

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<p>Chair of the UW piano program presents a program of works by French composers, including Fauré’s 6th Nocturne, Franck’s Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, Joël-François Durand’s Enfance: Quatre Tableaux, and works by Ravel, including Miroirs, and the two-piano version of La Valse. With guest pianist (and former student of Sheppard) ZeZe Xue. </p>
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