“Bridge Over Troubled Water 2” April 14th Concert to Benefit Alan Hu Foundation Scholarship Fund

The Alan Hu Foundation will present a benefit concert to raise mental health awareness and funds for the Alan Hu Scholarship. The concert will be held on Sunday, April 14, 2024, at 7:00 PM at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1225 Hopyard Road, Pleasanton, California, 94566.

For tickets or to donate in any amount, please visit our website:
https://alanhufoundation.org/bridge-over-troubled-water-benefit-concert

Tickets are $20 for adults, $15.00 for Seniors, and free for students and children.

“Since 2020, the Alan Hu Foundation has presented scholarship awards to Tri-Valley high school seniors whose college and career aspirations are in mental health fields. We depend upon donations to continue to offer scholarships,” said Foundation President and Co-Founder, Xiaofang Chen. “Alan was a cellist, so a benefit concert is a fitting tribute to his memory, and a way to support promising scholars.”

Concert Artistic Director and cellist Ewen Tsai has prepared a program of works by Rachmaninoff, Bach, and Shostakovich. Featured performers are 2023 Philadelphia International Music Festival winner, Celicia Thendean, and local artists Fonny Chandra, Hansen Liu, and Ewen Tsai.

Fonny Chandra, award-winning pianist and co-founder of Anna Poklewski Academy of Music, and Quatro Music Education School, has taught piano for over 17 years. She holds a master’s degree in Piano Performance from Stephen F. Austin University. Hansen Liu is a music educator and performer based in Pleasanton, with Music Performance degrees in Oboe and Piano from Carnegie Mellon University and University of the Pacific. He strives to help children and adults alike to discover the joy of music, as well as recording and performing. Ewen Tsai has performed and taught internationally for over 20 years and has won awards for her Integrated Music Curriculum and her performances. Her arrangements have been performed worldwide. She holds master’s degrees in both Education and Music Performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The Alan Hu Foundation was created by Xiaofang Chen and Chih-Ching Hu in memory of their son, Alan. He passed away due to mental disorders in 2018 at the age of 15. Their mission is to promote mental health, raise awareness and remove stigma surrounding psychiatric disorders, and to support fundamental research for cures. The Alan Hu Foundation Scholarship was created in memory of Alan, and Sarah Rahman, young people with great promise who lost their lives to psychiatric disorders.