17周年校慶音樂會 林悅倫鋼琴家以蕭邦夜曲琴「悅」長榮!
發佈日期:2011-01-13
﹝ 校園記者/王貝芳 採訪報導﹞
長榮大學慶祝創校17周年,舉辦三場盛大校慶音樂會,不僅有長榮大學室內管弦樂團與長榮大學老師們所合作,一同譜出動人的樂曲,最後一場的壓軸音樂會更邀請到遠從美國而來的林悅倫鋼琴家,替長榮大學17周年校慶做一個完美的結束。
林悅倫鋼琴獨奏會之藍色狂想曲,吸引長榮大學超過三百人一起共襄盛舉,這次林鋼琴家一共演奏五首曲目,在演奏之前,林鋼琴家會先介紹曲目背景,在曲目之中,其中四首是簡介上面的曲目,最後以蕭邦的夜曲做為安可曲。音樂會主持人柯慶欣老師指出,林鋼琴家彈奏的樂曲都頗為艱深,但她卻神態自若的無攜帶任何樂譜上場演出。
林悅倫鋼琴家在2003年被國際網絡音樂廳大賽評為全世界前八大名音樂家,演奏方式有協奏曲、獨奏及室內樂演奏,演奏地點包括德國、法國、美國、日本和台灣等國家。自1996年以來她的表演已經在美國各地的電視台和廣播電台經常播出,她的現場演奏會也在公共電視網電視台播出。 長榮大學的蘇冠華同學表示,林鋼琴家彈奏時而激動,時而輕柔,而且演奏者十分融入曲子情境,任何高難度曲子手指都能輕快的移動在鍵盤上,正所謂台上十分鐘,台下十年功。鋼琴家林悅倫用她富磁性又舒坦心靈的琴音,召喚每個抒情又感性的心靈。
【大紀元11月3日訊】(大紀元記者李新紐約報導)
林悅倫在接受大紀元記者採訪時談到自己對古典音樂的摯愛的緣起。
鋼琴家林悅倫Helen Lin曾就讀於紐約朱莉亞音樂學院和密西根州立大學鋼琴專業,在美國辛辛那提(Cincinnati)音樂學院完成鋼琴演奏專業碩士和博士學位。林悅倫的演出足跡遍布歐洲、美洲和亞洲,目前在美國幾所音樂學院教授鋼琴。
談到莫扎特的作品
林說:「莫札特純真,純淨,其實莫札特的生活是不幸的,但是他的音樂都是明亮的。不管多麼不幸,表現出來的都是高興的樣子。」
鋼琴的最高境界是人琴合一
演出時,琴是彈給別人聽的,林悅倫說:「可以彈的好,要讓人家有感覺,不管是這個人彈的比較快,或是那個彈的比較快,就是要給別人有感覺,那如果好像彈得很快,別人沒有感覺,那就沒有用。
什麼樣的一個程度或是一個境界的時候,才覺得是發揮到最好了?
林悅倫說:「我覺得就是如果可以達到,英文叫做in the zone,中文就是叫做「上道了」,如果可以彈到好像已經都覺得沒有其他的事情存在,那就是達到那個境界。人琴合為一體。」
對比賽的看法
林悅倫說:「比賽倒是不容易,很多都是不熟悉的東西。對琴不瞭解,要跟那個琴配合,試琴就很重要。」
走上古典音樂之路不後悔
選擇走古典音樂這條路,林悅倫覺得這個就是一種因緣:「因為要走上這條路並不容易,從小練琴不容易,蠻磨人的,尤其是小時候。但是一旦過了那個階段,領悟到那個古典音樂的精華的時候,就會發現,那完全是一個神話世界,是跟我們每天的生活完全不同的世界。一個比較理想化的世界,所以就是不會覺得有要求,對挫折也不介意了。」當然生活上還是有很多現實的東西,以古典音樂為職業走得不容易,但是,林還是覺得不錯:「還是有人要繼續走,蠻值得欣慰的。說真的就是命運。」從沒有想到要放棄走這條路:「其實真的是命運,9歲我媽媽送我去比賽什麼的,贏了,不知不覺就已經開始演奏,沒有說想要放棄。不像很多人要經過一個抉擇,想走別的路。那我就沒有經過那個過程,因為我就好像已經命運幫我決定了。不後悔。」
古典音樂是一個理想的美好世界
為什麼喜歡古典音樂?
林悅倫說:「古典音樂淨化心靈,把你帶到另一個世界去。不煩惱這麼多的事情。把事情都理想化了。」
林悅倫在接受大紀元記者採訪時談到自己對古典音樂的摯愛的緣起。
鋼琴家林悅倫Helen Lin曾就讀於紐約朱莉亞音樂學院和密西根州立大學鋼琴專業,在美國辛辛那提(Cincinnati)音樂學院完成鋼琴演奏專業碩士和博士學位。林悅倫的演出足跡遍布歐洲、美洲和亞洲,目前在美國幾所音樂學院教授鋼琴。
談到莫扎特的作品
林說:「莫札特純真,純淨,其實莫札特的生活是不幸的,但是他的音樂都是明亮的。不管多麼不幸,表現出來的都是高興的樣子。」
鋼琴的最高境界是人琴合一
演出時,琴是彈給別人聽的,林悅倫說:「可以彈的好,要讓人家有感覺,不管是這個人彈的比較快,或是那個彈的比較快,就是要給別人有感覺,那如果好像彈得很快,別人沒有感覺,那就沒有用。
什麼樣的一個程度或是一個境界的時候,才覺得是發揮到最好了?
林悅倫說:「我覺得就是如果可以達到,英文叫做in the zone,中文就是叫做「上道了」,如果可以彈到好像已經都覺得沒有其他的事情存在,那就是達到那個境界。人琴合為一體。」
對比賽的看法
林悅倫說:「比賽倒是不容易,很多都是不熟悉的東西。對琴不瞭解,要跟那個琴配合,試琴就很重要。」
走上古典音樂之路不後悔
選擇走古典音樂這條路,林悅倫覺得這個就是一種因緣:「因為要走上這條路並不容易,從小練琴不容易,蠻磨人的,尤其是小時候。但是一旦過了那個階段,領悟到那個古典音樂的精華的時候,就會發現,那完全是一個神話世界,是跟我們每天的生活完全不同的世界。一個比較理想化的世界,所以就是不會覺得有要求,對挫折也不介意了。」當然生活上還是有很多現實的東西,以古典音樂為職業走得不容易,但是,林還是覺得不錯:「還是有人要繼續走,蠻值得欣慰的。說真的就是命運。」從沒有想到要放棄走這條路:「其實真的是命運,9歲我媽媽送我去比賽什麼的,贏了,不知不覺就已經開始演奏,沒有說想要放棄。不像很多人要經過一個抉擇,想走別的路。那我就沒有經過那個過程,因為我就好像已經命運幫我決定了。不後悔。」
古典音樂是一個理想的美好世界
為什麼喜歡古典音樂?
林悅倫說:「古典音樂淨化心靈,把你帶到另一個世界去。不煩惱這麼多的事情。把事情都理想化了。」
說到現實中的文化,充斥了一些現代的東西,如何過濾而不受影響,林悅倫認為,一個音樂家受到的影響還是很大的,如何擺脫那些影響,堅持古典傳統﹐她說:「就是靠自我約束,自我控制,自我的珍惜,拒絕隨波逐流,不管旁人怎麼亂搞,都不隨波逐流。靠你自己去保持價值,不管別人怎麼做。」
說到古人與現代人的不同之處,林說:「現代人就是要速成,什麼都要快,但是古典音樂是沒有辦法速成的,那是一輩子的功課。」「速成的東西你很快就是達到那個效果,但是就沒有辦法持久,古典音樂是一輩子的追求,你永遠不會覺得滿意,因為你不管水準有多高,都有更高的追求,所以你就是一輩子一直往上,沒有限度,富有挑戰。」
林認為自己為了音樂而活,可以為音樂而犧牲,沒有妥協。
音樂的深度在於對生命的理解
走上音樂之路,雖屬命運的安排,但個中滋味,林悅倫說只有自己最曉得:「就是蠻苦的,要一直練琴,像我一直去世界各地演出,就是每天都在不同的城市。有人說,你每天都在旅行,好像很風光,其實真實的情況是,我每天都在狂練琴,沒有時間觀光風景,第二天馬上上飛機,飛到另一個城市。」「其實是看你自己如何選擇的,」林說:「音樂的深度就是跟自己的人生經驗一起成長的,也體現出對生命的理解。
「最難忘的時刻,是一種你進入那種理想的世界裡面,那就是對你的一種獎勵,進入那個境界就是一種回報。那種獎勵其實是針對自己而言的,不是說別人多喜歡你,因為那都不重要了,因為不管你怎麼彈,都有人喜歡你,有人不喜歡你,所以那已經不重要。那個獎勵就是超越。」
日期:2008-11-03
說到古人與現代人的不同之處,林說:「現代人就是要速成,什麼都要快,但是古典音樂是沒有辦法速成的,那是一輩子的功課。」「速成的東西你很快就是達到那個效果,但是就沒有辦法持久,古典音樂是一輩子的追求,你永遠不會覺得滿意,因為你不管水準有多高,都有更高的追求,所以你就是一輩子一直往上,沒有限度,富有挑戰。」
林認為自己為了音樂而活,可以為音樂而犧牲,沒有妥協。
音樂的深度在於對生命的理解
走上音樂之路,雖屬命運的安排,但個中滋味,林悅倫說只有自己最曉得:「就是蠻苦的,要一直練琴,像我一直去世界各地演出,就是每天都在不同的城市。有人說,你每天都在旅行,好像很風光,其實真實的情況是,我每天都在狂練琴,沒有時間觀光風景,第二天馬上上飛機,飛到另一個城市。」「其實是看你自己如何選擇的,」林說:「音樂的深度就是跟自己的人生經驗一起成長的,也體現出對生命的理解。
「最難忘的時刻,是一種你進入那種理想的世界裡面,那就是對你的一種獎勵,進入那個境界就是一種回報。那種獎勵其實是針對自己而言的,不是說別人多喜歡你,因為那都不重要了,因為不管你怎麼彈,都有人喜歡你,有人不喜歡你,所以那已經不重要。那個獎勵就是超越。」
日期:2008-11-03
Interview with Helen Lin by Barbara Millard 2007
What are your goals as a teacher?
“My goal as a teacher is to teach love, beauty, and peace. The responsibility of being a teacher is not just to teach students notes, how to play, and to see how much progress a student can make during a certain period o time, but also to lead a student to a positive life style, to care for the student’s personal growth, because music only touches people’s hearts when it is personal.”
What teaching techniques are the most effective?
“The most effective technique of teaching is no technique at all. Teaching is about students, not teachers. Therefore, it is not just what the teacher can give, but it is how the student can receive. It will depend on the personality of the student. If the student is already semi-accomplished, then I will provide the traditional classical training which is the school of Rachmaninoff. If the student is playing music for fun, then I focus on how he/she can achieve that goal.”
What is your favorite piano for your own playing?
“The Steinway piano is the best; it takes you wherever you want to go without arguing.”
What media events have following your winning the Web Concert Hall competition in 2003?
“My live performance of “Dream of Love” was broadcast on PBS in 2005 throughout the states, and I am under contract with Nightscape Records working on the second album of “In remembrance of September 11th, and another contract to record an old-pop-song/classical combination album based in Philadelphia. I also do TV shows for educational purposes.
Teaching, performing, writing your doctoral thesis: how do you relax from your demanding schedule?
“I do modeling for petite fashion, translate different languages into Chinese. The things that relax me are: dining, cooking, shopping, playing with my cat Joy, and having heart-felt conversations with friends. And of course, knowing that I am at the top of my shape professionally relaxes me.”
What is the best advice you can give to aspiring musicians?
“My advice for aspiring musicians: keep being an inspiration to the world, keep creating excellence in your art, be very true to your heart and soul, but also care for what others need to receive. The most important advice, though, is …be realistic, don’t forget to work on the skills that you can depend on for making a living. We don’t want more starving artists.
Being a musician, finally, is not about the glamorous life style that one travels to cities after cities; it is about the message that one carries through his/her art – that is, humanity, healing for the wounded hearts, passion for excellence and passion for life.”
What are your goals as a teacher?
“My goal as a teacher is to teach love, beauty, and peace. The responsibility of being a teacher is not just to teach students notes, how to play, and to see how much progress a student can make during a certain period o time, but also to lead a student to a positive life style, to care for the student’s personal growth, because music only touches people’s hearts when it is personal.”
What teaching techniques are the most effective?
“The most effective technique of teaching is no technique at all. Teaching is about students, not teachers. Therefore, it is not just what the teacher can give, but it is how the student can receive. It will depend on the personality of the student. If the student is already semi-accomplished, then I will provide the traditional classical training which is the school of Rachmaninoff. If the student is playing music for fun, then I focus on how he/she can achieve that goal.”
What is your favorite piano for your own playing?
“The Steinway piano is the best; it takes you wherever you want to go without arguing.”
What media events have following your winning the Web Concert Hall competition in 2003?
“My live performance of “Dream of Love” was broadcast on PBS in 2005 throughout the states, and I am under contract with Nightscape Records working on the second album of “In remembrance of September 11th, and another contract to record an old-pop-song/classical combination album based in Philadelphia. I also do TV shows for educational purposes.
Teaching, performing, writing your doctoral thesis: how do you relax from your demanding schedule?
“I do modeling for petite fashion, translate different languages into Chinese. The things that relax me are: dining, cooking, shopping, playing with my cat Joy, and having heart-felt conversations with friends. And of course, knowing that I am at the top of my shape professionally relaxes me.”
What is the best advice you can give to aspiring musicians?
“My advice for aspiring musicians: keep being an inspiration to the world, keep creating excellence in your art, be very true to your heart and soul, but also care for what others need to receive. The most important advice, though, is …be realistic, don’t forget to work on the skills that you can depend on for making a living. We don’t want more starving artists.
Being a musician, finally, is not about the glamorous life style that one travels to cities after cities; it is about the message that one carries through his/her art – that is, humanity, healing for the wounded hearts, passion for excellence and passion for life.”
Inspiring Tunes
Ram Page
Inspiring Tunes
Pennsylvanian Pianist Provokes Student Learning
By: Jennifer Rios, Editor-in-chief
Issue date: 10/26/07 Section: News
Media Credit: Jason Hook, Photographer
Dr. John Irish, on the trumpet, accompanies acclaimed pianist Helen Lin during a class in the Carr Recital Hall. This was the last performance for Lin in San Angelo before she headed home to Pennsylvania.
The internationally renowned pianist, Helen Lin graced the Carr Recital Hall with her presence as she taught a master class Monday, Oct. 22, along with music professor, Dr. John Irish.
"She's gonna bring that level of talent and musicianship," Irish said before the class.
All music majors were invited to the master class, where Lin performed with Irish and instructed individual students who had the chance to play for her.
Senior Chris Johnston was required to go to Monday's performance for his music class.
"I got brownie points," he said, "but it was mainly for me."
He also attended Lin's performance at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts on Sunday, Oct. 21.
Johnston said Lin worked well with the students in the class and that he especially enjoyed her straightforward approach to things. Other visiting musicians go into too much technical jargon, he said, or go too far into depth.
"She's realistic," he said. "She likes to keep things simple."
"It's outstanding," Irish said about Lin's performances, "Her sound, her technique, her style. It's her unique personal stamp on the music she plays."
Lin said her father's interest in music made a huge impact on her life. Her parents primed her for success, and at the age of 6, she was taking piano lessons.
"Before I knew, I was performing professionally," she said. "I was winning competitions."
She said that it takes a great amount of discipline to perform even simple pieces. Lin was born in Taiwan, where her childhood was one filled with discipline and strong morals. The competitions she entered at a young age helped prime her for winning the Taiwan Piano Concerto Competition and being voted one of the top eight musicians in the world at the Web Concert Hall International Competition.
Lin has spent 15 years teaching young musicians in Pennsylvania, and said her greatest joy comes when students make progress and when she guides them in "the right direction in their lives."
While in college herself, Lin avoided the party scene and focused on her music.
"I'm one of the lucky pianists that didn't go through the rebellion stuff," Lin said.
Even if the students she reaches do not enter the music field, she said, they become a better person because music is in their lives.
"I think it improves the way we see the world," Lin said. "A more idealistic world we create in our minds and make into reality."
San Angelo Press
Ram Page
Inspiring Tunes
Pennsylvanian Pianist Provokes Student Learning
By: Jennifer Rios, Editor-in-chief
Issue date: 10/26/07 Section: News
Media Credit: Jason Hook, Photographer
Dr. John Irish, on the trumpet, accompanies acclaimed pianist Helen Lin during a class in the Carr Recital Hall. This was the last performance for Lin in San Angelo before she headed home to Pennsylvania.
The internationally renowned pianist, Helen Lin graced the Carr Recital Hall with her presence as she taught a master class Monday, Oct. 22, along with music professor, Dr. John Irish.
"She's gonna bring that level of talent and musicianship," Irish said before the class.
All music majors were invited to the master class, where Lin performed with Irish and instructed individual students who had the chance to play for her.
Senior Chris Johnston was required to go to Monday's performance for his music class.
"I got brownie points," he said, "but it was mainly for me."
He also attended Lin's performance at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts on Sunday, Oct. 21.
Johnston said Lin worked well with the students in the class and that he especially enjoyed her straightforward approach to things. Other visiting musicians go into too much technical jargon, he said, or go too far into depth.
"She's realistic," he said. "She likes to keep things simple."
"It's outstanding," Irish said about Lin's performances, "Her sound, her technique, her style. It's her unique personal stamp on the music she plays."
Lin said her father's interest in music made a huge impact on her life. Her parents primed her for success, and at the age of 6, she was taking piano lessons.
"Before I knew, I was performing professionally," she said. "I was winning competitions."
She said that it takes a great amount of discipline to perform even simple pieces. Lin was born in Taiwan, where her childhood was one filled with discipline and strong morals. The competitions she entered at a young age helped prime her for winning the Taiwan Piano Concerto Competition and being voted one of the top eight musicians in the world at the Web Concert Hall International Competition.
Lin has spent 15 years teaching young musicians in Pennsylvania, and said her greatest joy comes when students make progress and when she guides them in "the right direction in their lives."
While in college herself, Lin avoided the party scene and focused on her music.
"I'm one of the lucky pianists that didn't go through the rebellion stuff," Lin said.
Even if the students she reaches do not enter the music field, she said, they become a better person because music is in their lives.
"I think it improves the way we see the world," Lin said. "A more idealistic world we create in our minds and make into reality."
San Angelo Press
Interview with Helen Lin (Pianist) Helen Lin received Master’s degree from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and currently, working on her doctoral degree from same University.
MOL: Tell us about the song arrangers from your recordings...
HL: America, the Beautiful was arranged by Bill Wolaver. He is from a musical talented family who now lives in New Milford, Connecticut. Deep River was arranged by Warren M. Angell who is Dean Emeritus of the Warren M. Angell College of Fine Arts at Oklahoma Baptist University. Simple Gifts was arranged by Joseph M. Martin who is very well-known by the churches and colleges. I wanted to record a lot more, unfortunately, I was able to record only six because in Cincinnati, the best recording studio, WGUC, has only Baldwin piano, which I felt that the instrument was not sensitive enough to express my emotion at the level the music requires… I plan to record more of songs with a better instrument in Cleveland, Ohio.
MOL: What was your reasons for the recording?
HL: Church I work enjoys the arrangements I play every Sunday. Church-goers were in tears after they heard them, so, I decided to produce a CD so that people can enjoy not only on Sunday but at their homes too.
MOL: What songs and when do you plan to record more?
HL: I plan to record the following songs…. "At the River" arranged by Joseph Martin and "Yellow River", a virtuoso piece for piano, "A Friend in Jesus" from Symphony No.2, Second movement by J. Sibelius, "Amazing Grace" and Saint-Saens' Swan, Holy Holy and "Going home" from Dvorak's Symphony - all arranged by Marilyn Reimer. I plan to record these songs immediately after my doctoral’s Qualifying Exam in October 2003.
MOL: All the best in your next CD and good luck in your qualifying exam. What do you hope to achieve ten years from now in your music career?
HL: I would like to continue to grow in every aspects of my life artistically and musically. I firmly believe that there is no limitation.
MOL: Who is your favorite performers and why?
HL: I admire several performers… Glen Gould - his performance speaks of purity of his heart and soul. Martha Argerich--she is on fire!! She creates a sense of danger that creates unpredictable excitement for the listeners. Michil Pletnev--his refreshing musical phrases and sensitive touch. Most of all, Sergei Rachmaninov is the best pianist ever in history, my opinion.
MOL: Thank you for the interview and all the best wishes for your career.
To contact the artist, please contact: The Web Concert Hall and write Helen Lin in the Subject
Interviewed in September, 2003
MOL: Tell us about the song arrangers from your recordings...
HL: America, the Beautiful was arranged by Bill Wolaver. He is from a musical talented family who now lives in New Milford, Connecticut. Deep River was arranged by Warren M. Angell who is Dean Emeritus of the Warren M. Angell College of Fine Arts at Oklahoma Baptist University. Simple Gifts was arranged by Joseph M. Martin who is very well-known by the churches and colleges. I wanted to record a lot more, unfortunately, I was able to record only six because in Cincinnati, the best recording studio, WGUC, has only Baldwin piano, which I felt that the instrument was not sensitive enough to express my emotion at the level the music requires… I plan to record more of songs with a better instrument in Cleveland, Ohio.
MOL: What was your reasons for the recording?
HL: Church I work enjoys the arrangements I play every Sunday. Church-goers were in tears after they heard them, so, I decided to produce a CD so that people can enjoy not only on Sunday but at their homes too.
MOL: What songs and when do you plan to record more?
HL: I plan to record the following songs…. "At the River" arranged by Joseph Martin and "Yellow River", a virtuoso piece for piano, "A Friend in Jesus" from Symphony No.2, Second movement by J. Sibelius, "Amazing Grace" and Saint-Saens' Swan, Holy Holy and "Going home" from Dvorak's Symphony - all arranged by Marilyn Reimer. I plan to record these songs immediately after my doctoral’s Qualifying Exam in October 2003.
MOL: All the best in your next CD and good luck in your qualifying exam. What do you hope to achieve ten years from now in your music career?
HL: I would like to continue to grow in every aspects of my life artistically and musically. I firmly believe that there is no limitation.
MOL: Who is your favorite performers and why?
HL: I admire several performers… Glen Gould - his performance speaks of purity of his heart and soul. Martha Argerich--she is on fire!! She creates a sense of danger that creates unpredictable excitement for the listeners. Michil Pletnev--his refreshing musical phrases and sensitive touch. Most of all, Sergei Rachmaninov is the best pianist ever in history, my opinion.
MOL: Thank you for the interview and all the best wishes for your career.
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Interviewed in September, 2003