Mozart Sonata No.12 F dur, KV 332 mov.1 on Walter copy by Paul McNulty / Mike Lee

Mozart Sonata performed on Walter piano McNulty by Mike Lee, a pianist, scholar & curator. The piano, used in recording is a concert quality copy made by modern fortepiano builder Paul McNulty. Please subscribe to our RUclips cannel for more fortepiano videos!
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Awarded Second Prize and Audience Prize at the 2011 Westfield International Fortepiano Competition by a jury that included Robert Levin and the late Christopher Hogwood, fortepianist Mike Cheng-Yu Lee’s performances have since garnered attention for the fresh perspectives they bring to familiar repertoire. For his debut recital in Australia he received a rare five-star review in Limelight Magazine: “Try as one might, it was hard to avoid cliché responses like ‘stunning’, even ‘electrifying’. I don’t think I have heard a Mozart recital quite like this. I heard things in Mozart’s music I had never thought possible and certainly had never encountered before.” The Bloomington Herald Times additionally writes: “As a keyboard performer, Lee really is a major talent, no doubt about it; I expect press notices to start coming before long in praise of his musicianship.” Mike is an advocate of pianos that span the 18th- to the early 20th-centuries. Adept at working with both period and modern performers, he has appeared as fortepianist at many early and modern music festivals. As a devoted and experienced teacher, he has recently performed and guest taught at the Royal Academy of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, University of Southern California, Northwestern University, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, among others. Mike has served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Indiana University-Bloomington, Lecturer at the Australian National University, and Director of the ANU Keyboard Institute. As a published scholar, he has presented on issues of performance practice, musical form, and musical embodiment at the Society for Music Theory, the European Music Analysis Conference, and the Society for Music Analysis. Mike studied at the Yale School of Music and holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Cornell University Among his teachers are Malcolm Bilson, Boris Berman, Michael Friedmann and James Webster.
PAUL McNULTY became interested in instrument building after Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Having studied piano technology in Boston, he earned guild qualification as a tuning examiner. Paul McNulty has built more than 300 fortepianos after Silbermann, Stein, Walter, Hofmann, Fritz, Buchholtz, Graf, Pleyel and Streicher. His fortepianos owned by such musicians and musical institutions as Warsaw Chopin Festival, Competition & Institute (Graf 1819, Pleyel 1830 & Chopin’s "Warsaw piano" Buchholtz), Klassik Stiftung Weimar (copy of Liszt's personal 1846 Boisselot piano), Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London, Paris Conservatoire, Trossingen Hochschule fur Musik, Koeln, Augsburg and Hannover Hochschule, Paris Sorbonne, Stanford, Cornel & Harvard University, Oberlin College, Basel Musik Hochschule, Schola Cantorum Musik-Akademie Basel, Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien, Turin Conservatorium, Vicenza Conservatory, Amsterdam and Den Haague Conservatory, Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz, Glyndebourne Festival, UK, Opera National de Paris, Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen, Center and many others, Prof.Paul Badura-Skoda, Alice and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Prof.Malcolm Bilson, Katia & Marielle Labeque, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Ronald Brautigam, Robert Levin, Trevor Pinnock, John Irving, Trudelies Leonhardt, Geoffrey Lancaster and Neal Peres da Costa.
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Really like the way Mike plays Mozart!