The Alan Hu Foundation will present a benefit concert to raise mental health awareness and funds for the Alan Hu Scholarship Fund. The concert will be held on Saturday, April 26, 2025, at 7:30 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/benefit-concert/
Tickets are $20 for adults, $15.00 for Seniors, and free for students and children.
“Since 2021, 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 Directors Mark Aubel and Ewen Tsai have prepared a program including the Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor, featuring Mai Weber, piano; Thais Meditation by Massent, featuring Ewen Tsai, cello; Andante and Rondo for Two Flutes and Piano, OP. 25, by Franz Doppler, featuring Li-Ling Chen and Ryan Wang, flute, and Yi-Hsuan Lee, piano; and Carmen Variation by Bizet/Horowitz, featuring Celicia Thendean, piano. In addition, Pleasanton Middle School String Orchestra, Strand Symphony (comprised of musicians from Amador Valley High School and Harvest Park Middle School), and a women’s vocal ensemble from Chabot College will perform.
Mark Aubel, long-time Pleasanton Unified School District music teacher, will conduct many of the orchestral and vocal pieces for the concert.
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.
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.