(GALLOWAY, NJ) -- Junwen Liang, a Chinese pianist who started playing at age 9, will perform at Stockton University's Campus Center Theatre on Sunday, November 24, 2024. Showtime is 2:00pm.
Liang debuted at 13 and has since performed at venues like the Cohen Family Studio Theater, Robert J. Werner Recital Hall in Cincinnati, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and the Academy of Music at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. He currently teaches at the Music Department at the University of Pennsylvania.
His recital program titled “From Then and Now” features Maurice Ravel’s elegant “Sonatine,” Catherine Likhuta’s contemporary “Rondo for Piano” and Claude Debussy’s evocative “Images, Book 2.” The afternoon continues with Wanghua Chu’s “Jasmine Flower Fantasia,” Frederic Chopin’s dramatic “Ballade No. 4,” Philip Glass’s “Etude No. 6” and Franz Liszt’s virtuosic “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12.”
Tickets are $18 for the general public, $16 for senior citizens (65+), military-affiliated individuals, Stockton alumni and staff/faculty and $12 for Stockton students and children under 12. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit stockton.edu/pac. Tickets are also available at the Stockton Performing Arts Center box office from 10:00am to 3:00pm Monday through Thursday and 90 minutes before showtime. Call 609-652-9000.
Stockton University is ranked among the top public universities in the nation. Their more than 9,000 students can choose to live and learn on the 1,600-acre wooded main campus in the Pinelands National Reserve in South Jersey and at their coastal residential campus just steps from the beach and Boardwalk in Atlantic City. The university offers more than 160 undergraduate and graduate programs.
