Wen-Lei Gu

media release: Join us in the Chazen Lobby for an incredible concert featuring violin soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician Wen-Lei Gu!

Attendance is limited and tickets are required for a seat in the Sunday Afternoon Live audience section. Please arrive by 12:15 pm to find your seat, or your tickets may be forfeited to walk-in guests. Running late? Simply e-mail jprey@chazen.wisc.edu for us to hold your spot!

T he Chazen Lobby will remain open to the public during the concert. Museum goers without tickets may still enjoy the concert from our café tables or while exploring the galleries.

Unable to join us live at the Chazen Museum of Art? A video of this performance will be live streamed on the Chazen Museum of Art Facebook page. No registration is required for streaming from home.

PROGRAM

Wen-Lei Gu

Bach Partitas for Solo Violin

Partita No. 1 in B minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1002

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Allemanda

Double

Corrente

Double (Presto)

Sarabande

Double

Tempo di Borea

Double

Partita No. 2 for in D minor for Solo Violin, BWV 1004

Allemanda

Corrente

Sarabanda

Giga

Ciaccona

Wen-Lei Gu, violin

Cantabile for Violin and Guitar

Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840)

Wen-Lei Gu, violin

Nathan Wysock, guitar

Violinist Wen-Lei Gu has won international acclaim as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician with her passionate playing and profound musicianship. The Frankfurter Neue Presse praised her playing as “a musical sensation -- top-notch musicianship and technical perfection!” A winner of numerous prizes in national and international violin competitions, Ms. Gu was the gold medalist in China’s National Violin Competition and the Heida Hermanns International Competition, the silver medalist in the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition and Ima Hogg Young Artist Competition. She made her international debut at age thirteen, performing the Saint–Saëns Violin Concerto in B minor in England with the legendary violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin at the baton. Menuhin said of her playing: “sounds like a poem, looks like a painting.”