Kevin Park
Artistic Director
DATE
Fri. March 21 - 7:30 PM
South Delta Baptist Church, Delta
Sun. March 23 - 2:00 PM
Vancouver Academy of Music, Vancouver
Mon. March 24 - 1:00 PM
Anvil Centre, New Westminster
Wed. March 26 - 1:00 PM
Highlands United Church, North Vancouver
PROGRAM
MATINEE PROGRAM
EVENING PROGRAM
*Our matinee series consists of one-hour performances with a program separate from the evening concerts.
String Trio in B-Major, D 471
Franz Schubert
Trio à cordes
Jean Françaix
I. Allegretto vivo
II. Scherzo
III. Rondo. Vivo
String Trio in C minor, Op.9 No.3
Ludwig van Beethoven
I. Allegro con spirit
II. Adagio con espressione
III. Scherzo. Allegro molto e vivace
IV. Finale. Presto
String Trio in B-Major, D 471
Franz Schubert
Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola, H. 313
Bohuslav Martinů
I. Poco allegro
II. Poco andante
III. Allegro
Trio à cordes
Jean Françaix
I. Allegretto vivo
II. Scherzo
III. Rondo. Vivo
String Trio in C minor, Op.9 No.3
Ludwig van Beethoven
I. Allegro con spirit
II. Adagio con espressione
III. Scherzo. Allegro molto e vivace
IV. Finale. Presto
VIDEO
YOOJIN JANG
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Applauded by The Strad for her “fiery virtuosity” and “consummate performances,” violinist YooJin Jang is a winner of the 2017 Concert Artists Guild Competition and First Prize winner of the 2016 Sendai International Music Competition. These successes have resulted in a busy itinerary of international recital and concerto engagements as well as the release of two new recordings. The dynamic young talent has been lauded by the Boston Musical Intelligencer as “a performer without fear or technical limitation.”
Her recent concerto performances include appearances with the symphony orchestras of Chautauqua, Dubuque, and Roswell. In recital, highlights include YooJin’s recent Carnegie Hall debut and concerts at Jordan Hall and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert series in Chicago. A passionate chamber musician, YooJin has performed with Caramoor’s Rising Stars and toured with Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute and Musicians From Marlboro.
Internationally, YooJin has performed with the KBS Symphony Orchestra and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as with the Budapest Festival Orchestra led by Ivan Fischer, the Bulgaria National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and Spain’s Extremadura Orchestra. She has also given recitals in Japan at Sendai, Nagoya, and at Hamarikyu Asahi Hall in Tokyo.
In 2017, YooJin released two albums: live performances of the Mendelssohn and Stravinsky Violin Concertos with the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra and Junichi Hirokami and a recital disc featuring music of Mendelssohn, Stravinsky, Grieg, and Sibelius with pianist Kae Ozawa. Her first album, Korean Young Musicians, was released on the KBS (Korean Broadcast System) label, in cooperation with Aulos media & KBS Classic FM. She is also regularly heard on the radio, including a recent appearance on WQXR’s McGraw Hill Young Artists Showcase.
YooJin’s latest victories at CAG and Sendai continue a long line of international competition success. In 2013, she won Japan’s 4th International Munetsugu Violin Competition, which included the loan of the 1697 ‘Rainville’ Stradivari violin. She was also a top prize winner at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, the Michael Hill International Violin Competition (including the Audience Prize and Best Performance of the New Zealand Commission Work), and the Yehudi Menuhin Competition.
YooJin is a co-founder of The Kallaci String Quartet, which made its international debut at the Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, Korea and the Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music. Recognized for her creative work in chamber music, she won the 2011 Borromeo String Quartet Guest Artist Award, and in 2009 she was awarded the Schloss Weikersheim Scholarship as part of the London String Quartet Competition. YooJin has also participated in the Marlboro and Ravinia Festivals, where she worked with artists such as Menahem Pressler, Dénes Várjon, and Peter Wiley.
YooJin holds a Bachelor of Music from The Korean National University of Arts, where she studied under Nam Yun Kim. She also earned a Master of Music, Graduate Diploma, Artist Diploma, and Doctor of Musical Arts from New England Conservatory, as a student of Miriam Fried. Since 2020 she has been an Assistant Professor of Violin on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music.
Hanna Lee
Violist Hanna Lee has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Kimmel Center, Jordan Hall, Suntory Hall, and Seoul Arts Center. Ms. Lee has appeared as a soloist with the KBS Symphony Orchestra, Korean Symphony, Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Jungen Symphony Orchestra, and the Sungnam City Orchestra. As an avid chamber musician, she was invited to perform at Ravinia, Verbier, Kronberg, and Marlboro Festivals. As a member of the Kallaci String Quartet, she has performed complete string quartet works by Shostakovich and Beethoven and has toured in Korea and abroad. As a recitalist, she has appeared at Kumho Cultural Foundation and Seoul Arts Center Series. A recipient of many honors and prizes, Ms. Lee’s awards include major prizes at the International Young Artist Competition (USA) and the Osaka International Competition (Japan). She is a graduate of Korean National University of Arts, Curtis Institute of Music, New England Conservatory, and Kronberg Academy. She has been invited to festivals worldwide, such as Music Alp Festival, Seoul Spring Festival, Pyeongchang Music Festival, and Seoul International Music Festival. Also, she is a member of Kallaci String Quartet, Kumho Soloists, Ensemble Opus, and is guest principal violist at Australian Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Lee is currently on faculty at Korean National University of Arts, Yonsei University, and Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts.
JOONHO SHIM
Joon Ho Shim is a classical cellist. He has been highly praised by Natalia Gutman, one of the world’s most esteemed musicians, as: “a true performer who possesses a blend of a cool head and a warm heart.”
Upon matriculating and graduating Yewon School and Seoul Arts High School as a valedictorian, he started to gain prominence for his exceptional talent as a musician. Joon Ho Shim was recognized for his potential as a soloist after his outstanding performance at the Kumho Prodigy Concert funded by the Kumho Cultural Foundation and in other prestigious competitions including the 32nd Jung-Ang Competition held in 2006. He won second place at the 2012 Antonio Janigro Internation Cello Competition and was given the honour of winning the 2010 Jeunesses Musicales International Music Competition with a unanimous majoriry – an unprecedented case for a Korean musician.
Back in homeland, he performed with Seoul philharmonic, Seongnam philharmonic, Suwon philharmonic, Incheon philharmonic, Gwangju philharmonic, Bucheon philharmonic and WonJu philharmonic. He also continued performing with Deutsche Junge Sinfonie Berlin, Belgrade RTS Orchestra, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, while being invited to perform as a soloist at the Fagerborg Music Festival (Norway), Oudewater Music Festival (Netherland), Szeged Music Festival (Hungary) 2014/2015, Bergen Music Festival and many others.
After studying under Young-Chang Cho at Essen Folkwang Musikhochschule, he also completed his Artist Diploma as he studied under Truls Mork, the maestro of contemporary music, at the Norwegian State Academy of Music. His graduation recital was given the prestige of being nationally broadcasted. He is currently performing actively as a member of ECMA (European Chamber Music Academy) around Europe, while also participating as a member of Kallaci String Quartet in South Korea.