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Shan-shan Sun
Shan-shan Sun plays Nikolai Kapustin

Album SE 2009 on Mindfeel label
Jazz

Amazon.com Editorial Review: The best composer of piano music alive today is in his late 60s and lives in relative obscurity in a Moscow apartment. You've never heard of him, but his name is Nikolai Kapustin. Imagine a composer who picks up where Gershwin left off, integrating the language of jazz into classical idioms with total, natural ease. Imagine that this composer uses the pianistic idioms of Rachmaninoff and Chopin, the contrapuntal intricacy of Bach and the brilliant vocabulary of jazz virtuoso Oscar Peterson. Kapustin does all of that. It was not quite two years ago that I first popped in a disc featuring Kapustin's music. Within minutes, I was in love. Friends, family and colleagues have since accused me of an obsession, though some have joined me in my enthusiasm. Today, after long and intense examination of his music, I'm more convinced than ever of Kapustin's greatness. The Miami Herald recently observed, "Sun's intensity brought to mind Alicia De Larrocha's visionary Mozart interpretations ". Pianist Shan-shan Sun has been active in performing throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. A native of China, Shan-shan Sun began piano lessons at the age of five, and gave her first public performance at the age of six. At the age of nine she was admitted to the Young Artist Program at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, soon after she began to perform in major cities of China. In the following year she was invited to perform for Mr. Jiang Zeming, president of China. In 1991 Ms. Sun came to the United States to study at the Cleveland Institute of Music. After moving to the U. S. Shan-shan Sun has given concerts in Cleveland, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington D. C., among other major cities. Ms. Sun s recent engagements include solo appearances with the Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra of Sweden, the Scandinavian Chamber Orchestra in New York, the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra, Norrlands Symphony Orchestra of Sweden, and Boston Chamber Orchestra, as well as recitals at the Princeton University, Washington Performing Arts Society, Rockefeller University Concert Series, Community Concerts in Fairfax, VA, Essex Winter Series in Deep river, CT. and the Black diamond Concert Series in Copenhagen. Ms. Sun performs frequently as guest artist at numerous music festivals, such as Oslo Chamber Music Festival, Linkoping Chamber Music Festival, Umea International Chamber Music Festival, Helsingborg Piano Festival, Giresta Piano Festival, and the Liepaja International Piano Stars Festival in Latvia. Her performances have been heard on radio stations WNYC New York, WCLV Cleveland, P2 Sweden, and BBC Radio England. Shan-shan Sun has won prizes at several music competitions. In 2003 Shan-shan Sun and Per Tengstrand ( Duo Tengstrand-Sun ) won the First Prize at the Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition in Miami, Florida. The Duo now performs worldwide. Ms. Sun is an active recording artist. Her CDs were released by China Records, and Mindfeel Sweden. Her most recent recording features solo piano music by Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin.

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