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Piano/Violin Duo with Hyeyeon Park & Kristin Lee presented by Noe Valley Chamber Music
On February 28, 2016, at 4:00pm NVCM is proud to present a Piano/Violin recital featuring Hyeyeon Park and Kristin Lee at Noe Valley Ministry.*
Hyeyeon Park, piano
Kristin Lee, violin
Named the recipient of a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Kristin Lee has been praised by The Strad for her "mastery of tone." A violinist of remarkable versatility and impeccable technique, Ms. Lee enjoys a vibrant career as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and educator. Described as a pianist "with power, precision and tremendous glee" (Gramophone), Hyeyeon Park has appeared as soloist and chamber musician on major concert stages throughout the world.
PROGRAM
Busoni/Bach Chaconne for solo piano
Ysaye Sonata No. 2 for solo violin
Sarasate Carmen Fantasy for violin and piano
Beethoven Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer"
3:30pm Doors Open
4:00pm Performance (with a post concert reception to follow)
The performance lasts approximately 2 hours, including a short intermission with wine. Audience members have the chance to mingle with the performers while enjoying light refreshments immediately following the performance.
TICKETS are $20-30, FREE for children 12 and under.
($30 with a discount for students, seniors and advance purchases.)
Childcare is available. Please allow time to look for street parking.
*Please note: Cellist Dmitri Atapine is unable to perform on the series as scheduled due to an injury.
HYEYEON PARK has been described as a pianist "with power, precision, and tremendous glee" by Gramophone magazine. She was selected as a 2012 Artist of the Year by the Seoul Arts Center. She has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician worldwide and is a prizewinner of numerous international competitions, including Oberlin, Ettlingen, Hugo Kauder, Maria Canals, Prix Amadèo, and Corpus Christi. Park is an Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Nevada, Reno, and she can be heard on the Blue Griffin, Urtext Digital, HM, and Naxos labels. She is a faculty member of Music@Menlo's 2015 Chamber Music Institute Young Performers Program.
KRISTIN LEE
An accomplished chamber musician, Ms. Lee is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, following her completion of a three-year residency as a CMS Two artist. This season, she makes her debut appearance with the Camerata Pacifica of Santa Barbara. She has appeared at the Ravinia Festival, Music@Menlo, La Jolla Festival, Medellín Festicámara of Colombia, the El Sistema Chamber Music festival of Venezuela, and the Sarasota Music Festival, among many others. She is the concertmaster of the groundbreaking Metropolis Ensemble, with whom she premiered Vivian Fung's Violin Concerto, written for her, and which appears on Ms. Fung's CD Dreamscapes, released for the Naxos label CD in 2012.
Ms. Lee's performances have been broadcast on WQXR in New York, on Robert Sherman's "Young Artists Showcase," and with guitarist Mattias Jacobsson on Annie Bergen's "The Office Hours." Other broadcasts include PBS's "Live from Lincoln Center," the Kennedy Center Honors, and a guest artist performance on WFMT Chicago's "Rising Stars" series. She also appeared on a nationally broadcast PBS documentary entitled PBS in Shanghai, that chronicled a historic cross-cultural exchange between the Perlman Music Program and Shanghai Conservatory.
Ms. Lee has received many honors, including awards from the 2011 Trio di Trieste Premio International Competition, the SYLFF Fellowship, Dorothy DeLay Scholarship, the Aspen Music Festival's Violin Competition, the New Jersey Young Artists' Competition, and the Salon de Virtuosi Scholarship Foundation. She is also the unprecedented First Prize winner of three concerto competitions at The Juilliard Schoolin the Pre-College Division in 1997 and 1999, and in the College Division in 2007.
Born in Seoul, Ms. Lee began studying the violin at the age of five, and within one year won First Prize at the prestigious Korea Times Violin Competition. In 1995, she moved to the U.S. and continued her musical studies under Sonja Foster. Two years later, she became a student of Catherine Cho and Dorothy DeLay in The Juilliard School's Pre-College Division. In January 2000, she was chosen to study with Itzhak Perlman, after he heard her perform Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with Juilliard's Pre-College Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Lee holds a Master's degree from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Itzhak Perlman and Donald Weilerstein, and served as an assistant teacher for Mr. Perlman's studio as a Starling Fellow. She is a member of the faculty of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, and has served on the faculties of the LG Chamber Music School in Seoul, Korea, El Sistema's chamber music festival in Caracas, Venezuela, and the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival.
ABOUT NOE VALLEY CHAMBER MUSIC
Noe Valley Chamber Music (NVCM) has been presenting superb chamber music to audiences in Noe Valley since 1992. NVCM ticket holders have an opportunity to hear and meet the Bay Area's finest musicians, ensembles, and vocalists in the authentic yet informal chamber music tradition. This concert series allows both established and emerging local artists to develop audiences for their work, and to perform new, old or unusual repertoire in an intimate setting.
For more information please contact Tiffany Loewenberg, Executive Director, NVCM at tiffany@nvcm.org or call (415) 648-5236 or visit our website www.nvcm.org.
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1021 Sanchez Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
United States
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