Lei Liang’s A Kite Over the Grassland was the world premiere on Leland Ko’s December 11, 2025, recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Naumburg commissioned the piece and presented the concert.
Ko was one of two first-prize winners in the Foundation’s 2024 International Cello Competition. The other, Jonathan Swensen, had given his Naumburg recital in the same hall five weeks earlier, premiering a solo cello suite by Paul Wiancko.
