Artist description Pianist

Music Style Classical

Artist History Francis Whang has been a member of the piano faculty of the University of North Carolina since 1971. Active as a soloist and chamber player in the United States, Europe, and Asia, he has performed in locales as varied as New York City and Pyongyang, including New York's Carnegie Hall, Washington, DC's Phillips Gallery, San Francisco's Opera House, and Boston's Gardner Museum. In April of 1995, he performed in North Korea where he received the prize for outstanding solo performances during that country's 1991 International Festival of the Arts and was honored as the first foreign visitor to be invited to conduct master classes at the National College of Performing Arts. Concerto engagements include appearances with the San Francisco Symphony, Seoul's Korean Broadcasting System Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, and the Yale University and the North Carolina University symphony orchestras. Mr. Whang received the Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in music from the University of California at Berkeley and the Master of Science degree from the Julliard Preparatory division. His principal teachers have been Adolph Baller, Jeaneane Dowis, and Rosina Lhevinne. He has also coached with Beveridge Webster and William Masselos.

Instruments Piano

Press Reviews ". . . performed brilliantly, . . . easy power, . . . crystal clear; light, rapid, electric pieces that flashed from his fingers; . . . orchestral proportions." --New Haven (Ct.) Register. ". . . walked the right side of the fine line between sheer showmanship and the bravura of an artist . . . imaginative, sensitive and a titan at the keyboard." --The Washington (D.C.) Post.

Location Chapel Hill, NC - USA

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