Frank Wiens
Friday, November 2, 2007, 7:30 PM
First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue
1717 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue 98004

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Frank Wiens is a concert pianist who has toured the United States annually in recital and with orchestra since 1974.

Mr. Wiens gave his New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1984. His London recital debut took place in May of 1986. He made his European continental debut in Vienna,
Austria in May of 1987 at the Brahmssaal of the Musikverein. Other international performances have included a concert tour of the Soviet Union and two such tours of
South Korea. Frank Wiens won first prize in the North American Young Artists Competition and the Southwest Pianists Foundation Competition.

In the 1990-91 season Mr. Wiens returned to New York with an all-Prokofieff recital in celebration of the 100th anniversary of that composer’s birth. Mr. Wiens was invited to tour
the Soviet Union in April of 1991 in numerous solo and orchestral engagements as part of the celebrations of the centennial in the composer’s native land. In addition he was
featured in a lecture-recital on the Prokofieff piano sonatas at the national convention of the Music Teachers National Association in Miami.

In the fall of 1994 Mr. Wiens travelled to Bratislava, Slovakia, to record a compact disc including the Rachmaninoff Third Concerto with the Slovakia National Orchestra and
the Rachmaninoff Sonata No. 1. The CD was released internationally in 1995 on the Fanfare-Intersound label.

Late in 2006, Frank Wiens appeared as soloist with the Orchestra ADinu Lipatti@ in Romania, and gave a pair of recitals devoted to the music of Chopin at the Chopin Academy
and at the Lazienki Palace on Water in Warsaw.

Mr. Wiens lives in Stockton, California with his wife, mezzo-soprano Lynelle Frankforter Wiens. In his spare time he enjoys playing golf and trying his hand at gourmet cooking.

Message from Yunbo: (Sept 29, 2007)

Hello everyone,

Thank you all for checking out so many tickets for our Scholarship Concert. All 900 of them have been checked out! I am getting emails regarding to the payment already. Some teachers have already sold all their tickets.

Please make one check to EMTA and mail it to me or bring it to our October general meeting.

Thank you so much for promoting this outstanding concert in your studio and supporting our chapter scholarship fund.

We are looking forward to a great concert.

Yunbo Cassady