Intimate Classics Series – Victor Asuncion & Paul Tseng

Music by Virtuoso Pianist/Composers for Piano and Cello

Victor Asuncion, pianist

Paul Tseng, cellist

Music by virtuoso pianist/composers Beethoven and Rachmaninoff, who wrote for and performed with virtuoso cellists

Internationally acclaimed pianist Victor Asuncion teams up with San Diego Music Society’s artistic director and cellist Paul Tseng, for a concert featuring music for piano and cello, featuring the epic sonatas for piano and cello by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff.

Victor Asuncion

Hailed by The Washington Post for his “poised and imaginative playing,” Filipino-American pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion has appeared in concert halls in Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, Spain, Turkey and the USA, as a recitalist and concerto soloist. He played his orchestral debut at the age of 18 with the Manila Chamber Orchestra, and his New York recital debut in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in 1999. In addition, he has worked with conductors including Sergio Esmilla, Enrique Batiz, Mei Ann Chen, Zeev Dorman, Arthur Weisberg, Corrick Brown, David Loebel, Leon Fleisher, Michael Stern, Jordan Tang, and Bobby McFerrin.

His recordings include the complete Sonatas of L. van Beethoven with cellist Tobias Werner, Sonatas by Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff with cellist Joseph Johnson, the Rachmaninoff Sonata with the cellist Evan Drachman, and the Chopin and Grieg Sonatas, also with cellist Evan Drachman. He is featured in the award winning recording “Songs My Father Taught Me” with Lynn Harrell, produced by Louise Frank and WFMT-Chicago. Mr. Asuncion is the Founder, and Artistic and Board Director of FilAm Music Foundation, a non-profit foundation that is dedicated to promoting Filipino classical musicians through scholarship, and performance.

Paul Tseng

Paul Tseng (cello) has performed as a soloist, recitalist, orchestral, and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and South Africa in concert halls such as Avery Fischer Hall, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Cairo Royal Opera House in Egypt, The Royal Cultural Center in Amman, Jordan.

Paul is the second cellist ever to be awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Peabody Conservatory (Johns Hopkins University). There he specialized in the cello music of Prokofiev and studied with Stephen Kates, Samuel Sanders, and performed with Earl Carlys and Ruth Inglefield.

He has served as principal cellist of the Millbrook Orchestra in WV, the Gettysburg Symphony, and assistant principal cellist of the Maryland Symphony under the baton of Barry Tuckwell.

He also holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from the Julliard School. He has held various faculty positions in New York, Maryland, West Virginia, New York, and Washington DC.

In recent years, he has performed cello concertos by Elgar and Dvorak with the Mira Costa Orchestra and concertized as recitalist and chamber musician throughout Southern California.

Paul is a founding member of the Logos Trio and the artistic director of the San Diego Music Society, which presents the Music by the Sea Concert Series in Encinitas, and the Intimate Classics Concert Series at the California Center for the Arts

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