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Saturday, May 3, 2025 3pm to 3:20pm

One Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

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Classical works for cello and piano. Repertoire: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 by Robert Schumann; Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, B. 191: III. Finale: Allegro moderato – Andante – Allegro vivo by Antonín Dvořák. 

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Dylan Shih Wu is a cellist from Manhasset, New York.  A 2020 National YoungArts Finalist in classical music and the Silver Medal Laureate in the cello section of the 9th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, Dylan was also a member of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra, a 2021 winner in the National MTNA Competition and a past semifinalist of the Klein International Competition, Washington International Competition for Strings, and Johansen International Competition.  He is a two-time winner of the Juilliard Pre-College Concerto Competition. 
Dylan has performed locally and internationally since age 10, and has been a featured soloist with the Allentown Symphony, Chappaqua Orchestra, Juilliard Pre-College Symphony, Belarus State Orchestra, and Fu-Jen University Orchestra.  He has participated in music festivals such as Great Mountains Music School, Morningside Music Bridge, and Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and has worked with cello pedagogues such as David Geringas, Jian Wang, Lluis Claret and Myung Wha Chung. 
On a lighter note, Dylan is featured in a classical music video cover of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” with acclaimed trio Time for Three, sponsored by NPR’s “From the Top” program.  In 2019, Strings Magazine named it as one of the top classical music covers of the year.  He has also collaborated with violinist Joshua Bell in a cover of the Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun.” 
A junior in the Harvard-New England Conservatory dual degree program, Dylan is concentrating in Applied Mathematics – Data Science and serves as a Principal in the cello section of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, with which he was featured as a soloist in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto on their 2024 Korea Tour.  He was a student of Minhye Clara Kim at the Juilliard School Pre-college Division, and currently studies with Lluis Claret.   

Harvey Lin is a pianist from the U.K. and a junior at Harvard University, where he studies Mathematics and Statistics. He made his concerto debut at age 12 and is a two-time finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. A prize-winner at the Enschede, Euregio, and Neapolitan Masters International Piano Competitions, he has performed with the East Netherlands, Reading, Eton, and Chiswick Symphony Orchestras, and appeared at venues including the Royal Albert Hall (Elgar Room), Steinway Hall (London), and the Vienna Musikverein. 
Harvey has participated in festivals such as Music@Menlo, the Oxford Piano Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival, where he studied with Professors Arie Vardi and Hung-Kuan Chen of the Hochschule für Musik Hannover and The Juilliard School, respectively. In 2024, he was one of six pianists invited as a Piano Fellow to the Tanglewood Music Festival. He has worked in masterclasses with Stephen Hough, Inon Barnatan, Lang Lang, and others, and performed a Brahms duet with Lang Lang at the Musikverein. His principal mentors are Edita Stankeviciute and Boris Petrushansky.

Instagram: @cellomaster88, @harveylinpiano

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