UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, September 3. 1996
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Student wins piano contest
Tao Chang's practice earns gold in Slovakia
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansan staff writer
After a performance in Hong Kong by the University of Kansas' internationally renowned pianist Sequeira Costa, Tao "Felix" Chang plucked up the courage to go backstage and ask to be Costa's pupil.
Tao "Felix" Chang, Shatin, Hong Kong, graduate student, practices on the piano in Murphy Hall yesterday afternoon. In July, Chang won first prize in the I.N. Hummel international piano contest
In July, Chang's courage was rewarded with a gold medal at the J.N. Hummel International Piano Competition, an award highly prized among pianists worldwide.
- Chang, a Shatin, Hong Kong, graduate student, was stunned when he won.
"At first, I couldn't understand. I had no feeling," he said. "But afterwards I realized my dream had come true."
Fifty pianists from around the world participated in the seven-day competition in Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
Chang performed in front of 11 judges and an audience of more than 100. He played J.N. Hummel's quintet opus 87 and Frederic Chopin's concero No. 1 in E minor opus 11. Costa, the Cordelia Brown Murphy distinguished professor of mano, sat on the curv.
Chang said he was honored to play for such great pianists. But he wasn't nervous.
"I don't really pay attention to whether I win competitions," he said. "I have lost so many times. I really didn't care."
Chang was the first person to win first prize in the competition's three-year history. Previous winners had not collected enough points to earn the distinction. He received a cash award in Czechoslovakian currency that was worth approximately $3,000. He also will play concerts in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary,
Poland and Austria.
He said he was looking forward to playing in Poland, the home country of his favorite composer, Chopin. As an Asian pianist, he expects audiences to be interested in his interpretation of the Western classical tradition, he said.
For two weeks before the competition, he practiced from midnight to 7 a.m. He usually practices four to six hours every evening, he said.
"Night has a special atmosphere,"
he said. "I feel the emotion of the music more closely."
Chang said he played piano as a tribute to the gift God had given him. He hopes winning the competition will be a stepping stone to a career as a live concert platform musician, he said.
Costa said Chang was a gifted and hardworking student whose style was poetical.
"He doesn't just play the notes; there is a message in his playing," Costa said.
Praton likened the expansion of the universe to a loaf of raisin bread rising.
Foundation financed Melott's research. His colleagues were Elizabeth Praton, assistant professor of physics at Grinnell College, and Margaret McKee, a senior at Grinnell
"The bread dough is expanding uniformly, and the space between each raisin is increasing the same amount over time. So if you are sitting on a raisin, you see the farther raisins moving faster than the nearer raisins. The speed at which they are moving away is directly proportional to how far away they are from you," she said.
Melott said McKee's involvement was significant because she was relatively young. He said it showed students they could get involved in research regardless of their age.
"She's not even a graduate student and she's got her rimage on a research paper," he said. "It's too bad it wasn't a KU student."
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