Eric Guo on McNulty piano Pleyel 1830 - Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 Op. 21 mov. 1 part 2

Eric Guo performing on McNulty fortepiano Pleyel 1830! This piano was originally crafted for the Chopin competition in Warsaw in 2023. Eric, the first prize winner, played on the Pleyel fortepiano at the Chopin Birthday Concert organized by the Chopin Institute. The instrument used in the recording is a concert-quality replica made by modern fortepiano builder Paul McNulty. Please subscribe to our RUclips channel for more fortepiano videos! There are also more videos featuring Paul discussing musical instruments.
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Eric Guo, a prize-winning young musician, recently claimed the 1st prize at the 2nd Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw. He has performed with prestigious orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic, Ural Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, and Minnesota Symphony. Guo has participated in various festivals and courses globally, from Radziejowice to Philadelphia's Curtis Summerfest, and is recognized as one of CBC's 30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30.
PAUL McNULTY developed an interest in instrument building after attending the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Following his studies in piano technology in Boston, he obtained 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.
Paul McNulty's fortepianos are cherished by renowned musicians and prestigious institutions worldwide, including the 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, Turino Conservatorium, Vicenza Conservatory, Bolzano Conservatorio, Amsterdam and Den Haague Conservatory, Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz, Glyndebourne Festival in the UK, Opera National de Paris, Royal Danish Opera Copenhagen, and many numerous others.
McNulty's fortepianos have been embraced by many musicians, including Prof.Paul Badura-Skoda, Alice and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Prof.Malcolm Bilson, Katia & Marielle Labèque, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Ronald Brautigam, Robert Levin, Vladimir Feltsman, Vojtech Spurny, Trevor Pinnock, John Irving, Trudelies Leonhardt, Giorgio Tabacco, Jen-yen Chen, Geoffrey Lancaster, and Neal Peres da Costa and others also in the younger generation.
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