Thursdays @ Three

The New York Concert Review described Susan Chan as “a thoughtful musician and a sensitive player,” and The New Yorker called her “an energetic advocate for contemporary music.” The Fanfare magazine and the BBC Music Magazine praised her “great technical finesse” and “conspicuous refinement” in her playing on her CD recordings.

Ms. Chan has performed as soloist and chamber musician on four continents, and actively promotes music from Asia and that written by women composers in addition to traditional repertoire. Such venues include Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall; Chopin’s birth house in Poland; Hong Kong City Hall Concert Hall; and Steinway Halls in New York, London and Tokyo. She has also performed on the Pianists of the World Series at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, and the Seattle International Piano Festival Recital Series. She has appeared as soloist with the Dnepropetrovsk State Philharmonic (Ukraine), Hong Kong Sinfonietta, and Portland Columbia Symphony. She is a member of the Rose City Trio and has performed chamber music with members of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony, Oregon Symphony, and Music from China.

In recognition of her creative work and achievements, the Oregon Arts Commission awarded Susan Chan with an Individual Artist Fellowship in 2013. She also received “Special Citation for Championing Piano Music by Asian Composers” recognition in The American Prize Competition 2015, in which she performed commissioned works by Zhou Long and Chen Yi. In addition, she was awarded first prize in the Hong Kong Young Musicians Award Competition and was winner in the Mozart Piano Concerto Competition at Indiana University.

Hailed by Michael Tilson Thomas as “an excellent violinist,” Tomás Cotik is internationally recognized as a soloist, chamber musician, and professor. A much sought-after recording artist, Dr. Cotik is currently involved in more than fourteen CD recordings for Naxos and Centaur records, which have received over a hundred reviews and highest praises from some of the best-known publications. Committed to passing on his passion for music, Dr. Cotik taught at the University of Miami, Florida International University, and West Texas A&M University. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Violin at Portland State University in 2016.

Oregon Symphony principal flute Martha Conwell Long, a native of Chapel Hill, NC, began flute lessons at the age of 8. She attended the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where she studied with the renowned Jim Walker and was the first wind player to receive a Bachelor of Music degree. Martha’s interest in orchestral playing became stronger while in Los Angeles, where she performed with the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra and the American Youth Symphony, two pre-professional training orchestras.

Martha continued her studies at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where she completed a Graduate Diploma as a student of Elizabeth Rowe, principal flute of the Boston Symphony. After graduating from the New England Conservatory, Martha became principal flute of the San Antonio Symphony in Texas. During the summer of 2015, Martha returned to Tanglewood for a fourth summer as a New Fromm Player and was a prize winner at the NFA’s Young Artist Competition.

Martha joined the Oregon Symphony at the beginning of the 2016-2017 season. During her first season, she performed Frank Martin’s Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments with her colleagues under the baton of Maestro Hans Graf. Outside of the orchestra, she is a member of the 45th Parallel Universe and the Arcturus Quintet.

**Image above is flutist Martha Long with pianist Doug Schneider and host Christa Wessel on T@T in September 2019**