CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO CULTURES AFTER MOVING TO GREENSBORO FROM CHINA, CHENNY GAN FINDS HER PLACE IN MUSIC.(PEOPLE & PLACES)

From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) | Date: May 9, 2004| Author: Barkley, Meredith | Copyright information

Byline: MEREDITH BARKLEY Staff Writer

GREENSBORO -- Ask UNCG piano professor John Salmon just how good master's degree candidate Chenny Gan is, and he's ready with a story.

"Some of the pieces she did for her master's recital a couple of months ago I couldn't learn, and there are very few pianists on the Earth who could learn them," he said.

"When she played those two etudes by Gyorgy Ligeti (a contemporary Hungarian composer), I just sat in my cha...

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