PROGRAM

Claude Debussy: Piano Trio in G Major, L. 3
I. Andante con molto allegro
II. Scherzo – Moderato con allegro
III. Intermezzo – Andante espressivo
IV. Finale – Appassionato

Dmitry Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
I. Andante
II. Allegro con brio
III. Largo
IV. Allegretto

BIOGRAPHIES

Beginning his violin studies at the age of 3, Jason Shu made his debut as orchestral soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra at the age of 8. Jason’s awards and commendations include winner of the Allegro! Orchestra Camp Concerto Competition, the Minnesota Sinfonia Concerto Competition, and the MNSOTA Mary West Solo Competition’s Givens Prize and Coda Bow Prize. Besides being a national finalist in Music Teachers National Association competitions twice, he also received awards in the Schubert Club competition and won first prize in the Thursday Musical scholarship competitions in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jason participated in the Artaria Chamber Music School for three years under Ray Shows and was a finalist in both the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Youth Chamber Competition and Saint Paul String Quartet Competition. His past private teachers include Pam Arenstein, Mary West, and Sally O’Reilly. Jason currently studies Data Science and Sociology at Columbia University, where he is also involved with Columbia Bach Society and Columbia Pops.

Twenty-year-old Serina Chang is currently a junior at Columbia University, where she is double majoring in Computer Science and Sociology. As a solo and chamber pianist, she has performed in such venues as Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Symphony Space, Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center, Rose Studio at Lincoln Center, DiMenna Center, Chicago Nichols Concert Hall, Portland Newmark Theatre, Studzinski Recital Hall at Bowdoin College, Enlow Hall at Kean University, and Tanglewood West Street Theatre. She has been featured on NPR’s show, “From the Top” and in Hunter College Campus School’s TEDx events, as well as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Meet the Music series and Young Musicians Concerts. In addition, Serina has won top prizes in competitions organized by the National YoungArts Foundation, Associated Music Teachers League, New York International Artists Piano Competition, American Protégé, National League of Performing Arts, American Fine Arts Festival, Queens Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Duo Piano Festival, YWCA, and Manhattan School of Music Precollege (MSM).

Serina attended MSM on scholarship from 2003 to 2015, studying piano with Elena Belli and chamber music with Yegor Shevtsov. She has also attended international music festivals including Bowdoin, Tanglewood, Beijing Academy, Foulger, and Summit. As an avid advocate for classical music, Serina spearheads many outreach programs that create spaces for classical musicians to share their art and amplify their scope to reach more audiences. Before college, she headed the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s (CMS) Student Producers, who work with CMS to promote classical music appreciation among teenagers, and Studio 94, a high-school music performance club which presented monthly community concerts at senior homes. Now at Columbia, Serina leads Columbia Classical Performers, a team that produces classical concerts on campus, and is Co-Founder and Executive Producer of CCP’s Intercollegiate Chamber Music Festival, an annual collaboration with CMS that brings together collegiate musicians in the Northeast for a weekend of workshops with world-renowned professionals, performances at Lincoln Center, and the unprecedented opportunity to make music with inspiring peers across institutions.

Nineteen-year-old Elena Ariza is a cellist from Cupertino, California and currently attends Columbia University as part of its exchange program with the Juilliard School. In 2015, Elena performed as a soloist at Davies Symphony Hall with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, and in the same year, was featured on NPR’s From the Top. She is an alumna of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College as well as the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, for which she served as Principal Cellist for two years.

Elena has won numerous solo and concerto competitions such as the Music Teachers National Association’s California State Competition, Pacific Musical Society Annual Competition, Mondavi Young Artists Competition, and the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and Symphony Parnassus concerto competitions, among others. She has played in masterclasses led by David Finckel, Ronald Leonard, Colin Carr, Robert deMaine, and Bonnie Hampton, and she has attended the Aspen Music Festival and School, Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute, the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival and School, and the Tanglewood Music Center.

As a chamber musician, she has participated in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Chamber Music Program since 2008 and most recently played in the Cambiata String Quartet, which competed in the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition in 2016. She also played in the AYE Piano Trio as part of the Young Chamber Musicians program, led by Susan Bates.

In 2011, Elena helped raise more than $12,000 through three charity concerts that she and her friends organized in the San Francisco Bay Area, in order to help the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Since then, she has performed in several concerts to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Japanese Red Cross, Global Giving, and the Transparent Fish Fund. Her other interests beside music include computer programming and papercrafting.