Video: On the Path to H.C. Andersen (Full Video Trailer)

Hanzhi Wang shares, “I have a thrilling announcement today! It is an honor to release my debut solo album; “On the Path to H.C. Andersen” by Naxos in August, which is the first accordion solo album from Naxos!

With the unique program in this album, I will take you into the ‘fairy-tale world of the accordion’. All the works are written originally for accordion by Danish composers, and I am especially excited about the world premiere recording of “Little Match Girl”, written by Martin Lohse in 2015. This piece is dedicated to me, and the loneliness and solitude feeling of the music, describes wonderfully H.C Andersens fairytale.

The idea of the CD is – despite the fact that time, life and place has passed – a remembering of the first images I got when my parents told the fairy-tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Images which has fascinated generations of children all over the world, creating dreams, hopes and creativeness. All the selected program in the CD is therefore exploring the colors and expressive sounds of the accordion, which brings you back to the memories and dreams of your childhood.

Stay tuned! The following release concerts will be in different countries and in some amazing concert halls.”

Excerpts from YCA (Young Concert Artists) website: Praised for her engaging stage presence and performances that are technically and musically brilliant, Hanzhi Wang is the first accordionist to join the roster of Young Concert Artists in its 57-year history of discovering extraordinary musicians.

Her concert career has already taken her around the globe with performances in Europe and Asia.  Ms. Wang will make her debut in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York, opening the 2018-19 season in The Peter Marino Concert at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall. Her Washington, DC debut in the Young Concert Artists Series at the Kennedy Center will be co-presented with Washington Performing Arts.

A First Prize Winner of the 2017 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, she was awarded numerous special performance prizes for upcoming concerts with the Candlelight Concert Society in Columbia, MD; the Sinfonia Gulf Coast in Destin, FL; the Tri-I Noon Recitals at Rockefeller University in New York City; the Vancouver Recital Society; Tannery Pond, the Usedom (Germany) Festival; the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle; the University of Florida Performing Arts Prize; and the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois/Urbana. Ms. Wang also appears next season with IRIS Orchestra in Tennessee, at the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, and at YCA alumnus’s Alexander Fiterstein Clarinet Academy in Minneapolis.

Summer Performances: Hanzhi is very excited to present the 3rd AF Clarinet Academy in Minneapolis this summer July 9-13, 2018. There will be participants from around the US as well as South Korea. Concerts by acclaimed pianist Michael Brown and virtuoso accordionist Hanzhi Wang who will perform works by Jeajoon Ryu, Bernstein, Weber, Joan Tower and Paquito D’Rivera. Warm ups and fundamentals with Lisa Perry and much more. Thank you to the sponsor Midwest Musical Imports and hope to see you in Minneapolis!.

Hanzhi will also appear in the beginning of the 2018-19 season. Hanzhi Wang stars in promoting the First Prize Winners of the last three years for Young Concert Artists Competition at the League of American Orchestras annual meeting. On October 7, 2018 she headlines the concert “A Toast to Women” celebrating women composers and performers as they kick off their 2018-19 Season.

Naxos, the world’s leading classical music label, is known for recording exciting new repertoire with exceptional talent. The label has one of the largest and fastest growing catalogues of unduplicated repertoire available anywhere with state-of-the-art sound and consumer-friendly prices. The catalogue includes classical music CDs and DVDs as well other genres such as jazz, new age, educational and audiobooks.

Photo credit: Matt Dine

For further information: hanzhi@hanzhiwang.dk