Annie Gao, 7/2/2025: MSU Muelder Summer Carillon Series

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I. Two Baroque Arias by Johann Sebastian Bach

from Italian Concerto, BWV 971 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

II. Andante

from Concerto for Violin and Oboe, BWV 1060R

II. Adagio

II. Piano Music from Sonatinen
Album I: Sonata in C, Hob. XVI:35 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)

Allegro con brio

Adagio

Finale

Sonatine in F Major, Op. 36, No. 4 Muzio Clementi (1752–1832)

Con spirito

Andante con espressione

Allegro vivace

III. Selections from The “Surprise Symphony” from Symphony No. 94, Hob. I:94 Franz Joseph Haydn

1. Andante

2. Menuetto con Trio

IV. 19th and 20th Century Romance:

Uit Myrthen, Op. 25 Robert Schumann (1810–1856)

3. Der Nussbaum arr. B. Zwart

Beautiful Dreamer Stephen Foster (1826–1864)

Hymne à l’amour Edith Piaf (1915–1963)

Annie Gao is a carillonist, a laureate of the 2024 Queen Fabiola

Carillon Competition, and software engineer from the sunny

suburbs of Southern California. She first met the carillon in 2017 as a

member of the Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs, completed

her GCNA Carillonneur exam in 2020, and graduated from Yale in

2021 with a combined B.S./M.S. in Computer Science. She then had

the tremendous privilege of continuing her carillon studies inter-

nationally with Geert D’hollander, Boudewijn Zwart, and Eddy

Marien, and along the way, was selected for the quinquennial Kors

Monster Festival Performance Nomination (2024), as well as The

Diapason's "20 Under 30" list (2025). She has taught carillon

performance masterclasses all over the United States, and currently

serves the GCNA as chair of the Emerging Artists Grant committee

and jury member of the Carillonneur Exam. In her free time, Annie

enjoys competitive ping pong, puzzles and brainteasers, good

reads, and opportunities to explore and improve her fascinatingly

bad sense of direction.

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