Charlotte
Tang
DMA Candidate at University of Toronto (Piano Performance)
Passionate about early 19th-century music, Charlotte’s research studies the interactions between Schubert’s pedal indications and his quiet dynamics. As an active pianist and fortepianist, Charlotte hopes to contribute to the field by engaging the historical piano as a document and reference point in modern piano studies, that will create a broader musical perspective that transcends the scope and technique of individual keyboard instruments.
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Upcoming Engagements
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Solo Performance in Walter Hall
Charlotte Tang
Piano
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Recent Highlights
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I believe that historical instruments hold the key to contextualizing Schubert’s notations and performance practice. Through experimentation and performance on the Graf piano replica, I seek to incorporate these interesting findings into practical interpretations on the modern instrument, by offering fresh perspectives on the interactive relationship between soft dynamics and concurrent pedal usage in Schubert’s solo piano works. I intend to create audio-visual recordings of this exploration process, which will serve as tangible examples for future comparative analyses between historical and modern instruments.
Charlotte Tang
Research/Performer
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Charlotte Tang
Recital
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Charlotte Tang
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Hosting Masterclasses for enriched programs (pre-college level)
Charlotte Tang
Host
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Outreach Performance in Eastman, QC
Summer program: Jul 2 – 8, 2023
Charlotte Tang
Performer
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Outreach performance in Toronto for a private audience
Charlotte Tang
Performer
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Charlotte Tang
Semifinals/finals
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This recital dives into Schubert's pedal indications in his solo piano works. It seeks to answer three major questions: 1) Should we pedal in Schubert's piano works? 2) Is there a relationship between Schubert's soft dynamics and pedal use? 3) How can we approach the moderator and shift action pedal on the historical piano?
Charlotte Tang
McNulty/Graf Piano
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Charlotte Tang
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Benefit concert for food banks in North York
Charlotte Tang
Collaborative pianist, choir director, organist
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This recital presents a selection of works with a fantastical spirit by Austro-German composers, including CPE Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann and JS Bach/Busoni. For some, this idea of freedom/fantasia translates to improvisations and unmeasured preludes. For others, it gathers into music with the most imaginative narratives.
This recital will be performed on both the Walter piano and modern Steinway.
Charlotte Tang
Fortepiano/piano
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Biography
Passionate about early 19th-century music, Charlotte Tang’s research studies the interactions between Schubert’s pedal indications and his quiet dynamics. She is a doctoral candidate in Piano Performance at the University of Toronto, generously supported by the Alice and Armen Matheson Graduate Scholarship, Guerrero Alberto Graduate Scholarship, Dina and Hosie Austin Graduate Piano Fellowship and the Nour Private Wealth Award. Before relocating to Canada, she had the privilege to study with Jeffrey Cohen at Manhattan School of Music and Roberto Plano at Indiana University Bloomington . She has also attended prestigious music festivals and benefited from master classes and coaching by Ronan O’Hora, Anton Nel, Angela Chang, André Laplante, Logan Skelton, John Perry, Marina Lomazov, Eric la Sage, Charles Abramovic and Ian Hobson, among others.
Concurrent to her modern piano studies at Indiana University, Charlotte focused on early 19th-century Viennese pianos and works by Schubert and Schumann under Prof. Elisabeth Wright. She has been actively exploring and performing on historical pianos. Her work on the historical piano has brought her to the Forte/piano Summer Academy program at Cornell University (Summer 2022), and recently, a recital at the 2023 Conference of Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies. In 2024, Charlotte is looking forward to a winter residency in the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity, focusing on the realization of Schubert’s pedal indications on historical and modern pianos.
As an active pianist and fortepianist, Charlotte is passionate about the works by Schubert and Schumann. Her forthcoming dissertation dives into interactions between dynamics and pedal indications in Schubert's works, with specific discussion on the soft pedals. Charlotte hopes to contribute to the field by engaging the historical piano as a document and reference point in modern piano studies, that will create a broader musical perspective that transcends the scope and technique of individual keyboard instruments.
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