Ciaccona Bin Hu

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750):
• 1 Prelude, from the Partita BWV 1006 04:21
• 2 Sonata BWV 1001: I. Adagio 03:45
• 3 Sonata BWV 1001: II. Fuga. Allegro 05:24
• 4 Sonata BWV 1001: III. Siciliana 02:40
• 5 Sonata BWV 1001: IV. Presto 04:37
• 6 Sonata BWV 1003: I. Grave 04:07
• 7 Sonata BWV 1003: II. Fuga 07:22
• 8 Sonata BWV 1003: III. Andante 05:09
• 9 Sonata BWV 1003: IV. Allegro 06:18
• 10 Chaconne, from the Partita BWV 1004 14:31
• 11 Sinfonia BWV 156 04:03
• Total Runtime 01:02:17

Info for Ciaccona

Winner of the 2016 David Russell Bach prize, Bin Hu offers a fresh look into guitar transcriptions of Bach’s solo violin works. With exquisite sensibility and expressiveness and by the use of scordatura and a careful programming, Bin Hu gives personal and captivating performances of Bach’s Prelude from the Partita BWV 1006, the Sonatas BWV 1001 and 1003, the Chaconne from the Partita BWV 1004 and the Sinfonia BWV 156.

Bin Hu, classical guitar

Bin Hu
was born in 1987 in Tianjin, China. He began classical guitar lessons at age 11 with Zhiwei Li, a pioneer and founder of the first classical guitar school in China. He then studied privately in Beijing with Jiajiong Li of the Central Conservatory of Music.

His undergraduate studies were with Heiki Mätlik at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn. He then went to Salzburg to study with Marco Tamayo at the Universität Mozarteum where he obtained his Master of Arts degree with distinction. He is currently completing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Arizona with Professor Tom Patterson. Within the framework of his studies Hu also took part in master classes taught by Sérgio and Odair Assad, David Russell and Ricardo Gallén, among others.

He appears on stage as a solo guitarist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestra and has performed in Austria, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, the Philippines, Spain and the USA. Among the works he has premiered, the most important was with Pärnu Linnaorkester, Estonia, when he gave the world première of a guitar concerto composed by Jorge Rodriguez-Caballero.

As a scholar, he has been invited to several musical institutes in China to present a variety of topics regarding Baroque performance practice. His scholarly activities and interpretations of Bach’s music culminated in winning the 2016 David Russell Bach Prize. David Russell, judge of this competition, remarked after hearing Hu’s interpretation of Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003, “Bin’s performance was powerful and convincing, among the best performances of this sonata I have heard.”

Hu plays a guitar made by Andreas Kirmse.

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