| LVC Music Prof Named Steinway Artist |
06.26.12 |
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Lebanon Valley College associate professor of music Dr. Eric Fung has been named to the international distinguished roster of Steinway Artists by Steinway & Sons. He joins a list of more than 1,600 artists including classical pianist Lang Lang, jazz star Diana Krall, pop icon Billy Joel, and piano "immortals" Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Arthur Rubinstein.
Fung graduated from the Eastman School of Music in New York and holds a doctorate from The Juilliard School with degrees in performance and theory pedagogy. He has studied with Natalya Antonova and Oxana Yablonskaya in piano, as well as Steven Laitz and Carl Schachter in theory. Fung’s performance of Brahms’ "Piano Concerto in D minor" at Lincoln Center was praised by The New York Times for its maturity, refinement, and elegance. His Carnegie Hall debut after winning the Bach Prize in Leipzig, Germany, also won acclaim from The New York Concert Review.
In 2011, Eric Fung and his childhood friend, pianist Kinwai Shum, formed a piano duo and gave their debut performances at the City Hall in Hong Kong to an enthusiastic audience and a full-house at Yulan Theatre in Dongguan, China.
At LVC, Fung teaches applied piano, class piano, and music theory courses. The College’s Lutz Hall is home to a Steinway concert grand piano; Fung performed his first full-length program on that piano in February 2009, featuring the works of Bach, Beethoven, and Cesar Franck.
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