Performer Biographies

The Clarinetist Composer

David Hattner

David Hattner has lived in New York City since 1996. He is the principal clarinetist of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and has played with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, the Long Island Philharmonic, the Garden State Philharmonic, the Camerata Atlantica, and the Quintet of the Americas. Mr. Hattner made his Lincoln Center Debut at Alice Tully Hall in November, 1996, in the American premiere of Isang Yun’s Quintet #2 for Clarinet and Strings. Before moving to New York he played with several orchestras in the Southeastern United States. He is an honors graduate of Northwestern University, where he studied with the late Robert Marcellus. Prior to his studies at Northwestern, he attended the Interlochen Arts Academy where he studied with Richard MacDowell and Frank Kowalsky. In addition to his clarinet playing, Mr. Hattner is also a conductor, leading concerts with the Oklahoma Chamber Ensemble and the Garden State Philharmonic, and organizing fundraising concerts at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church in Manhattan to feed homeless New Yorkers.

Albert Tiu

Albert Tiu has performed in recital and as orchestral soloist throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, South Africa, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Costa Rica. He was presented in a solo recital at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, the recipient of the 1998 Juilliard William Petschek Recital Award. In 1996, he won first prize in the UNISA Transnet International Piano Competition in Pretoria, South Africa, where he was also awarded special prizes for his performances of Mozart and Rachmaninoff. In addition, Mr. Tiu won second prize in the 1996 Esther Honens Calgary International Piano Competition. In May 1996, he won the Juilliard Gina Bachauer Piano Competition, including the Chopin Prize, which resulted in a live radio broadcast on WQXR New York.
     Mr. Tiu has appeared with orchestras such as the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic, Illinois Chamber Symphony, Juilliard Symphony, Philippine Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony and the orchestras of Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria and Johannesburg. More recently, he played Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto with the Orford Festival Orchestra. In 1998, Mr. Tiu played the Chopin Second Concerto with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic during the Musical Olympus Festival in Russia. He has appeared in the Santander International Festival in Spain, the Festival of the Sound in Canada, the FOCUS! Festival in New York, and at the New York Museum of Modern Art Summergarden Series. Born in the Philippines, Albert Tiu has studied at the Juilliard School, the Boston Conservatory and the University of the Philippines. His major teachers are Jerome Lowenthal and Michael Lewin.