Evelyn Miller Young Pianist Series: Ray Ushikubo
Sunday, February 17, 2019, 2:30 PM
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Natalie Haslam Music Center on the UT Campus
Tickets and Information (All students are FREE, College-age with ID)
The second of this season’s Young Pianist Series recitalists, the seventeen-year-old Ray Ushikubo, occupies a fairly rare position among young music artists, certainly rare among the recitalists in the YPS series—his solo abilities include both the piano and the violin.
As a child prodigy, Ushikubo made his solo orchestral debut at age ten with the Young Musicians Foundation Orchestra in Los Angeles’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Subsequently, he has performed with the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Modesto Symphony Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony Orchestra, Reno Philharmonic, and San Diego Symphony Orchestra.
Ushikubo won the 2017 Hilton Head International Piano Competition and the 2016 Piano Concerto Competition at the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he soloed with the Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra.
Ushikubo will start his Bachelor’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he will study piano with Gary Graffman and Robert McDonald and violin with Aaron Rosand and Midori.
His YPS recital program will include:
Chopin: Polonaise “Heroic” in A-flat Major, Op. 53
Beethoven: Piano Sonata “Pathetique” No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13
J.S. Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier II Fugue VIII in D-sharp Minor, BWV 877
Liszt: Spanish Rhapsody S.254, R.90
Chopin: Nocturne in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1
Liszt: Transcendental Étude No. 10 in F Minor, “Appassionata”
