Light through Violin & Piano [Free Concert + Light Bites & Concert]

Venue: Gallery 2

Afternoon session

15:30-16:10 
Free with Art Center admission. (Please arrive early to secure your seat. To ensure a great experience, entry will be closed once we are at capacity.)

Evening session

17:15–18:00 Lite Bites｜Café Debussy
18:00–19:00 Concert

NT$500｜Members NT$400 → Purchase Tickets (Chinese-language page)

♫･*.Musicians.*･♫

Yu-Lin Tsai | Violin

Born in Taitung; Master's degree from Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt. Studies under Prof. Erik Schumann, Gee Lee, and Vishnevkaya Evgeniya. Violinist of the Frankfurter Opern und Museumsorchester, and a regular performer at the Taiwan Connection (TC) Music Festival since 2019.

Mei-Chun Chou | Piano

Born in Taitung; Performer's Diploma and Master of Arts from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria. Her 2007 debut album was nominated at the Golden Melody Awards. In 2018 she founded Einfach Hall — a healing space centered on listening. Curator of this concert's program.

♫･*.Program.*･♫

(Selected Program for the Afternoon Session. For a fuller concert experience, we warmly welcome you to join the evening session.)

Inspired by Paul Chiang's lifelong pursuit of light, pianist Mei-Chun Chou has shaped this concert around three chapters of his journey — from carving light out of darkness, to letting it filter through, to finding it crystallized within.

I. Carving Light
Early in his career, Paul Chiang faced solitude in a studio with sealed windows — light had to be willed into existence, chiseled out through discipline and faith. This first movement mirrors that inward struggle, where structure and silence give way to the soul's first sound.

• Bach: Chaconne
  The solitary foundation — each double-stop strikes like a chisel against stone.
• Franck: Violin Sonata 
  Piano and violin in dialogue — the first thread of light slipping through a crack.

II. Filtering Light
At the Art Center, light is never still — it passes through architecture, canvas, and breath. In the sea wind and sun of Jinzun, the self becomes weightless, open, permeable.

• Debussy: Clair de lune
  Harmonics and arpeggios dissolve light into something liquid — the soul unguarded.
• Mendelssohn: Song Without Words
  Melody without words — the openness of a life that has learned to receive.

III. Crystallized Light
After all the searching, light is no longer distant — it is the eternal stillness of the present moment, pure and unframed, like the colors in Paul Chiang's paintings.

• Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
  Not a search, but an arrival. Piano as pulse; violin as unbroken light.
• Massenet: Méditation from Thaïs
  Music as compassion — a gentle embrace of life transcended.
• Richard Strauss: Morgen!
  A closing moment of completion — all darkness and silence resolved into tomorrow.

🔔 Visitor Tips

• During the performance, entry and re-entry will be paused for a quieter listening experience.
• As we expect a lively audience, visitors seeking a quieter experience are welcome to explore other galleries during the concert.
• Space is limited; for safety, entry will close once capacity is reached.

🔔 A Note on Photography & Recording

The music performance in the galleries of the Art Center (Light through Violin & Piano) will be photographed and recorded.

By entering the performance space with a ticket, attendees are deemed to have consented to such photography and recording.

The Art Center reserves the right to use, or to authorize others to use, on a perpetual, royalty-free, and worldwide basis, any attendee’s likeness or voice that appears in live streaming, photography, video, audio, or other reproductions of the performance. Such content may be used in whole or in part, including but not limited to public transmission, broadcasting, public screening, reproduction, or other forms of exploitation (including, without limitation, through the Art Center’s official social media accounts or various promotional materials).

Additionally, recording is not permitted during this concert. The musicians warmly invite you to be fully present and enjoy the moment.

✧Concerts are made possible by the Paul Chiang Arts and Cultural Foundation.