Frédéric Chopin's Ballade No. 1 and Franz Liszt's Tarantella S.162.

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Harvey Lin is a pianist from the U.K. and a senior at Harvard University, where he studies Mathematics and Statistics. At age 11, he became the youngest ever recipient of the Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music (LRSM) Diploma with Distinction. He made his concerto debut at age 12 and has since been a two-time finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition, as well as a prize-winner at the Rosario Marciano, Enschede, Euregio, and Neapolitan Masters International Piano Competitions. He was also winner of the Windsor and Maidenhead Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and a semi- finalist in the “Nutcracker” International Competition in Moscow, broadcast nationally on the Russia- Kultura television channel. Harvey has appeared as soloist with the East Netherlands, Reading, Eton, and Chiswick Symphony Orchestras, and has performed at venues including the Royal Albert Hall (Elgar Room), Steinway Hall (London), St Mary’s Perivale (London), St John’s College (Cambridge), and Queen’s College (Oxford). He has also been invited to several summer music festivals, including Music@Menlo, the Oxford Piano Festival, and the Northern Chords Festival. In 2023, he was awarded a Fellowship to 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, Harvey was one of six pianists invited as a Piano Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, the summer residence of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Harvey has worked in masterclasses with acclaimed pianists and pedagogues including Stephen Hough, Inon Barnatan, Alexander Korsantia, Orli Shaham, Wu Han, Mikhail Voskresensky, Peter Donohoe, Marios Papadopoulos, and Victor Rosenbaum. At age 12, he participated in a masterclass and performed a Brahms duet with Lang Lang in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein. In chamber music, he has received coachings from members of the Calidore, Parker, Pacifica, and Emerson String Quartets. His principal mentors are Edita Stankeviciute of the Windsor Piano Academy (Windsor, U.K.) and Boris Petrushansky of the Imola Music Academy (Imola, Italy).