Historical
Piano Concerts Series
About
the Musicians
Daesik Cha
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Daesik Cha, a native
of South Korea, has been establishing himself as a ‘renaissance’
musician, whose professional work encompasses concertizing, directing,
teaching, and music scholarship.
He has appeared as pianist in several prominent concerts across
continents. In the US, he was featured as a chamber musician with the
Irving Fine Society at Harvard’s Sanders Theater, and performed as a
soloist in the Franz Liszt bicentennial at Brandeis University. In
addition, he has been invited several times as a musical artist to the
Covington Art Club in KY, giving lectures and recitals. Recently he
performed a piano recital at the Killian Hall in MIT and a lecture
recital at the SMI international music conference in Belfast, Northern
Ireland. He also appeared in several prominent chamber music recitals
in the Boston area during the 2017–2018 season. His organ/piano recital
at the Historical Shirley Meeting House was aired on a local TV
channel. His other performances include concerts as a guest pianist at the 2007 Lucca Opera
Festival in Italy, and a solo recital which he was honored to give at
the Bechstein Hall in the Master Musician Series of Bilthoven,
Netherlands.
He wrote his PhD dissertation on the topic of “Transformation of the
Keyboard Fantasia in the Classical Period (1780–1800).” His scholarly
interests lie in the German instrumental aesthetics and literature of
the Classical and Romantic eras, and the development of church music.
He was a teaching fellow at Brandeis University, and is currently a
music instructor at MIT.
He holds a PhD degree in musicology at Brandeis University and two
Master’s degrees, in music history and literature and in piano
performance.
We are pleased to welcome Daesik Cha to his second appearance in the Historical Piano Series.