From The Hawk Eye Newspaper

Ahh, Chiu! A spellbinding performance

By BOB SAAR

 

for The Hawk Eye, Iowa

 

Pianist Frederic Chiu was teaching Piano 101 last night at Burlington's Memorial Auditorium and no one bolted from the classroom.

 

Chiu began his Civic Music performance with a brief history and

A Violinist With a Posse

Fred Kirshnit

The New York Sun

August 22, 2006

 

    This season promises to be a breakout year for Joshua Bell. While he plans to continue performing as a soloist in Romantic works, in which he is nonpareil, he will also venture into two other areas. Some in his fan base

Old friends get musical facelift

Music Review, By Andrew L. Pincus

Special to The Eagle

 

GREAT BARRINGTON — An interesting musician makes interesting music.

 

Duh? Of course. But pianist Frederic Chiu proved it via an unusual route over the weekend at Simon's Rock College: by playing a program of

By ALLAN KOZINN

 

Sitting in his quiet living room and discussing the Bach and Brahms recital he will play at the Metropolitan Museum this evening and some of the twists his career has taken in the last 15 years, the pianist Frederic Chiu could almost be mistaken for a computer geek with a tenured

By ANNE MIDGETTE

 

One could say the Riverside Symphony's program at Alice Tully Hall on June 10 was subversive in its newness. That is, nothing on it was all that new, but it wasn't all that familiar, either. The orchestra has devoted itself to less-explored corners of the repertory in its two-

FANS CHEER RETURN VISIT BY MASTERFUL PIANIST CHIU

"When it was learned that pianist Frederic Chiu would return in February for his third appearance in Des Moines, the Art Center's Levitt Auditorium was sold out weeks in advance. Saturday night's intelligent, intense and spectacularly played

"Mr. Chiu's Bach had an appealing buoyancy and lightness to its textures... He demonstrated an impressive clarity of articulation and an ability to find lively colors and smart harmonic contours within the rapid stream of notes...Mr. Chiu met the demands for virtuoso display [in Mendelssohn's

Danbury News-Times

By Howard Tuvelle

 

Western Connecticut State University’s newly formed Keyboard Club presented pianist Frederic Chiu in a recital Feb. 10. He devoted his entire program to the music of Russian composer Serge Prokofieff (1891-1953), whose complete keyboard music the pianist has

ESO, Chiu simply wonderful

By Barbara Vitello Daily Herald Staff Writer

 

Like hit singles on a top-selling CD, some concerto themes attract more attention than others.

 

In the case of Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, the

honor goes to the familiar introduction known as "Tonight We

"...exhilarating Prokofiev series...the superior spring of the playing, dynamic nuance and subtle toying with rhythms are obvious. The rest is sheer élan, especially in the brilliantly adapted sisters' quarrels from Cinderella and Chiu's own intelligent homage to Lieutenant Kijé, with superb