$15 Donation @ the Door (or Advance) / Start 9:15pm / Doors 9pm / Seated Show
Violist Jenn Chang, pianist Solon Gordon, and violinist Lily Tsai perform duos and trios for violin, viola, and piano at the Lilypad to benefit Food for Free, an organization that rescues and redistributes 2 million pounds of food a year in Cambridge!
Program:
Martinu — Three Madrigals for violin and viola
I. Poco allegro - Poco vivo
Schubert — Fantasy for piano and violin
Brahms —Horn trio (transcribed for viola, violin, and piano
Lily Tsai
Lily Tsai is a PhD student at MIT researching data privacy in computer systems, but can often be found with her violin in hand. A lover of chamber music, Lily enjoys organizing chamber porch concerts, pop-up and benefit concerts for both the MIT and broader Boston community, and livestream performances as part of the Tsai Duo with her cellist sister, Stephanie. Lily credits her love of music to her teachers---Li Lin and Lynn Chang---and her chamber coaches from Harvard, the Parker String Quartet and Hengjin Park. Prior to college, Lily toured as Concertmistress of the inaugural National Youth Orchestra of the USA and played in the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Aside from playing classically, Lily also arranges and covers songs as part of the Tsai Duo, and when she is not playing music or doing research, Lily can be found running around forests, scrambling up a climbing wall, or reading a book.
Solon Gordon
Solon Gordon enjoys a multifaceted career in music and technology. As a pianist, he specializes in music for strings and piano and finds joy in collaborating with young students, touring professionals, and everything in between. In recent months he has joined cellist Yo-Yo Ma in projects including his "Beginnings" recital and residency in Acadia National Park. As a software engineer, Solon has contributed to fields such as education technology and distributed databases. He has a special interest in making software teams more welcoming and diverse. Solon is ever grateful to his principal musical mentors: Monique Duphil, at Oberlin Conservatory, and Sandra Dennis, at the Community Music School of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Jenn Chang
Jenn (she/her/hers) joined the Biden-Harris Administration in January 2021, serving as the White House Liaison and Senior Advisor at the National Endowment for the Arts. In this role, she helps advance equity and inclusion, economic impact, health and well-being, social cohesion, and civic engagement through the arts. A graduate of Harvard College with a degree in Social Studies, Jenn joined the Arts Endowment after working on the appointments team with the Biden-Harris Transition. Prior to that, she worked as an associated consultant at WolfBrown with a portfolio of performing arts and education clients. She also spent over a decade at Google, where she worked in Strategy and Operations positions across Google Fiber, AdWords, and Grow With Google. In 2016, she took a sabbatical to serve as the Expansion States Operations Director at Hillary for America. While at Google, Jenn received her Master's degree in viola performance at The Juilliard School, studying with Heidi Castleman and Misha Amory. Performance venue highlights include the MoMA sculpture garden and Dizzy’s Jazz Club in New York, Jordan Hall in Boston, and Cafe Revolution in San Francisco. Jenn lives down the street in Cambridge with her husband Solon and their two young children.
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