Inside Chamber Music with Bruce Adolphe

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Grand Thoughts on a Small Scale Wednesday Evening, February 27, 2013 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio

BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer YEKWON SUNWOO, piano KRISTIN LEE, violin

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INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Grand Thoughts on a Small Scale BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer YEKWON SUNWOO, piano KRISTIN LEE, violin

GEORGE ENESCU (1881-1955)

Sonata No. 3 in A minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 25, “Dans le caractère populaire roumain” (1926)

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meet tonight’s

ARTISTS

Composer Bruce Adolphe has written music for many renowned musicians and ensembles, including Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Sylvia McNair, the Brentano String Quartet, the Beaux Arts Trio, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. His opera Let Freedom Sing: The Story of Marian Anderson, with a libretto by Carolivia Herron, was premiered in 2009 by the Washington National Opera, which performed it again in March 2011. His Self Comes to Mind, written with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, premiered at the American Museum of Natural History in 2009, featuring Yo-Yo Ma. Of Art and Onions: Homage to Bronzino, which he composed for the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was premiered in 2010 at the Met Museum and received its European premiere at the Teatro Goldoni in Florence. His Reach Out, Raise Hope, Change Society for chorus and chamber ensemble—a work about civil rights and social justice commissioned

for the 90th anniversary of the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work— premiered in November 2011. A new music festival in Colorado, Off the Hook, invited Bruce Adolphe to be composer-in-residence for its inaugural season in 2012 and has invited him to return in that position for 2013. Mr. Adolphe’s Coyote Scatters the Stars (a musical tale of order and chaos) was featured on 12/12/12 at the opening ceremony of MoMath in New York, the only museum of mathematics in the US. In addition to composing, he holds several positions concurrently: founder and director of the Meet the Music! family concert series and resident lecturer at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; keyboard quizmaster on public radio’s weekly Piano Puzzler on Performance Today; and founder and creative director of The Learning Maestros. The author of three books on music, Mr. Adolphe has taught at Yale, The Juilliard School, and New York University, and was recently appointed composer-in-

residence and adviser in music research at the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC. His book The Mind’s Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination will be published in an expanded and revised second edition by Oxford University Press in 2013.

This season, Mr. Adolphe celebrates 20 years at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Violinist Kristin Lee enjoys a vibrant career as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She has performed concertos with orchestras throughout the US and abroad, including the Saint Louis Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, Ural Philharmonic of Russia, Pusan Philharmonic, and Korean Broadcast Symphony. As a recitalist, she has performed at Ravinia’s Rising Stars Series, the Salon de Virtuosi at Steinway Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre in Paris, the Kumho Art Gallery in her native Seoul, and throughout northern Italy. A winner of Juilliard’s Concerto Competition and the Aspen Music Festival’s Violin Competition, she was a top prize winner of the 2012 Naumburg Competition, Astral Artists Auditions in 2010, and Italy’s Premio di Trieste Competition in 2011. Upcoming highlights include performances at the Strathmore Series in Maryland, and solo appearances with the Temple University Orchestra, West Virginia Symphony, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she has made appearance at the Ravinia Festival, Music@Menlo, Sarasota, Festival Mozaic, Festicamara de Medellin, and the Perlman Music Program. Ms. Lee earned a master’s degree from The Juilliard School in 2010 under Itzhak Perlman and Donald Weilerstein and served as an assistant teacher in Mr. Perlman’s studio.

She is an Artist of the Chamber Music Society, a former member of CMS Two, and

on the faculty at the Aaron Copland School of Music in Queens College.

As winner of the 2012 William Kapell International Piano Competition, Yekwon Sunwoo performed as soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the direction of David Lockington.

He has performed as soloist with Orchestre National de Belgique under the baton of Marin Alsop, the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie under the baton of Paul Goodwin, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Christopher Wilkins, l’Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc, Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra, and Daegu Orchestra. He made his New York City debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2009 as winner of the Florida International Piano Competition.

Other awards include First Prize in the 2012 Piano Campus International Concours, an award in the 2010 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, First Prize in the 2009 Concours International de Piano “Interlaken Classics,” and First Prize in the Daegu Broadcasting Competition. He has performed at the Summit Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Toronto Summer Music Academy and Festival, and Music from Angel Fire. In addition, he has given numerous recitals throughout France, Germany, Switzerland, and Morocco. His chamber music experience includes an invitation from the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation in 2007, touring Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Panama. Born in AnYang, Korea, Mr. Sunwoo has studied with Min-ja Shin and Sun-wha Kim in Korea, and with Seymour Lipkin at the Curtis Institute of Music. He is currently pursuing his master’s degree at The Juilliard School studying with Robert McDonald.