# Event Details - **Event Name**: An Evening with Yu Yu Liu and Scott Cuellar - **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 14 Dec, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Sun, 14 Dec, 2025 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for a night of cello and piano music with Yu Yu Liu and Scott Cuellar!About this EventAn Evening with Yu Yu Liu and Scott CuellarCome join us for a musical evening at the Roy Barnett Recital Hall at UBC! This will be our very first collaboration since our Juilliard years. We're very exctied to share this special night with you all!The program consists of:Ludwig van Beethoven Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69Bohuslav Martinů Cello Sonata No. 2, H. 286Johannes Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99Cellist Yu Yu Liu and pianist Scott Cuellar present a recital of three major sonatas of the cello-piano repertoire: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 3, Bohuslav Martinů’s Cello Sonata No. 2, and the monumental Sonata No. 2 by Johannes Brahms. Liu is based in Vancouver, and regularly performs with many of the Vancouver region’s orchestras, including Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Opera, and Victoria Symphony, and others. Cuellar is an assistant professor of piano at Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music, and performs regularly in solo, chamber, orchestral, and concerto capacities.Beethoven’s third cello sonata is one of his most tuneful works, as well as one of his most optimistic and harmonious. The sonata is unusual in that it doesn’t feature a slow movement aside from a short introduction to the finale. Instead, all three movements are generally upbeat in character, despite the fact that Beethoven marked in his original manuscript inter lacrymaset luctus – “amid tears and sorrow.” The first movement is introduced by the cello alone with one of Beethoven’s most memorable melodies, and the pace of the movement remains leisurely and comfortable. The second movement acts as a scherzo, in A minor, with the character of a rustic country dance. The final movement begins with a slow, wanderingintroduction before the finale proper begins, full of life and exuberance.Martinů’s Cello Sonata No. 2, written in 1941, was written during the composer’s time living in New York City, a city he disliked living in, as he battled homesickness for his Czech homeland. The work is typical of Martinů’s style, featuring an intense nervous energy, rife with syncopation and punctuation in its two fast outer movements. The first movement is relentlessand rhythmically complex, with significant interplay between the piano and cello. It is ferocious and full of tension, culminating in a gut punch at the end of the movement. The slow middle movement is entirely opposite in character, deeply meditative, slowly unfolding across a melancholic landscape. The third movement is similarly brooding and in perpetual motion, with very little space for the usual cheerful send-off seen in many sonata finales, instead retaining its frenetic energy throughout.Brahms’s two cello sonatas, in E minor and F major, respectively, are some of his most important achievements. The F major sonata manages to radiate immensity despite featuring only two instruments, exuding a sense of nobility from start to finish. The first movement is Brahms at his grandest, with the cello casting soaring melodies and the piano supplying plush textures throughout the movement, as well as the unusual use of measured tremolos in both the cello and piano for fullness of effect. The slow movement is expansive, beginning with chorale-like writing in the piano punctuated by pizzicatos from the cello. What follows is some of Brahms’s most soulful music, the cello melodies inward-looking and deeply personal, with the piano creating ethereal textures. The third movement, usually a scherzo, is typical of Brahms in that it is not much lighter in character compared with the rest of the work. It is full-textured and often shadowy, which allows for the fourth and final movement to be significantly brighter and more exuberant in character; the finale has a light footstep and great optimism, leading to an explosive ending. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/b5aeff10-a95e-11f0-ba86-a3b9cb3896e2-rimg-w494-h740-dc050503-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/c0624110-a95e-11f0-ba86-a3b9cb3896e2-rimg-w958-h740-dc191c13-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/vancouver/an-evening-with-yu-yu-liu-and-scott-cuellar/100001462483179559 - **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, concerts, live-music - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fan-evening-with-yu-yu-liu-and-scott-cuellar-tickets-1462483179559 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 33.4, max: 33.4, currency: CAD ## Event venue details - **city**: Vancouver - **state**: BC - **country**: Canada - **location**: UBC School of Music - **lat**: 49.2674387 - **long**: -123.2567701 - **full address**: UBC School of Music, 6361 Memorial Road, Vancouver, Canada ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Yu Yu Liu (https://allevents.in/org/yu-yu-liu/26917218) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/0e71bf308e50e0710af7dc9b49187eed8dfe0b647b1a9d826003ef223c07ad83-rimg-w1200-h1798-dc040601-gmir.jpg?v=1760488494 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/cbdd4d1be6b36dd8eef10d9dd82ef529e642de4165edd829c835a2eb48c79fe6-rimg-w400-h400-dc040601-gmir.jpg?v=1760488493 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? 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He has taught at the Oberlin Piano Institute and will join the faculty of the Montecito Music Festival in Summer 2025. He has appeared as a soloist with the San Antonio Symphony, the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic, the Rochester Symphony Orchestra, the Lima Symphony Orchestra, and several others.Cuellar is featured on composer Gity Razaz’s debut album, The Strange Highway (2022) with violinist Francesca DePasquale, released on BIS Records. In 2024, he commissioned composer Arthur Gottschalk to write Six Contrefacts: When George Met Dorothy, a song cycle for baritone and piano, which he premiered with bass-baritone Timothy Jones at the DiMenna Center under the auspices of Tribeca New Music. He has performed with many of the world’s great artists, including violinists Cho-Liang Lin, Jennifer Koh, Benjamin Beilman and Chee-Yun; cellists Mark Kosower and Desmond Hoebig; pianists Joseph Kalichstein, Haochen Zhang, and Jon Kimura Parker, mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung, and the Miró, Rolston, Verona and Ulysses Quartets. He has performed at the La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest, the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival and the Cactus Pear Chamber Music Festival. He has been heard on WQXR in New York, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Seattle’s King FM, Houston Public Media, and others.Mr. Cuellar won the gold medal at the 2016 San Antonio International Piano Competition (now Gurwitz), where he also received prizes for the best performance of both a Romantic work (Schumann’s Humoreske), as well as of a Russian work (Prokofiev’s 4th Sonata). He was the gold medalist in the solo division of the 2013 Virginia Waring International Piano Competition (now Palm Springs International), where he was also awarded the silver medal in the concerto division and was the winner of the Krenek Prize for the best performance of a work by Ernst Krenek. Additionally, he was the bronze medalist at the 2016 New Orleans International Piano Competition.Mr. Cuellar holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where he studied with Jon Kimura Parker; he earned a Master of Music from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Julian Martin, and he received his Bachelor of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Alvin Chow. During his time at Oberlin, he won three of the largest prizes offered to pianists: the Oberlin Concerto Competition, the Arthur Dann Competition, and the John Elvin Prize for Juniors. He is an Assistant Professor of Piano at Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music. Prior to his appointment at Syracuse, he was an Assistant Professor at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he taught chamber music, among other teaching duties." } ] } ] ```