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Sunday

FEB 28

2:00 pm

Sang-Eun Lee, cello Pavilion Chamber Series

Noreen Cassidy-Polera, accompanist

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Dave and Gunda Hiebert are pleased to sponsor this afternoon’s performance by Sang-Eun Lee.

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SANG-EUN LEE, cello

Noreen Cassidy-Polera, accompanist

PROGRAM Suite italienne Introduzione Serenata Aria Tarantella Minuetto e finale

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Sonata for solo cello Fantasia Tema pastorale con variazioni Toccata

GEORGE CRUMB

Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38 Allegro non troppo Allegro quasi menuetto Allegro

Intermission:

JOHANNES BRAHMS

20 Minutes

Sonata in G minor, Op.19 Lento – Allegro moderato Allegro scherzando Andante Allegro mosso

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

Sang-Eun Lee 21-year-old cellist Sang-Eun Lee has been hailed for her expressive artistry and dazzling technique. She won the 2014 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and First Prize at the 2014 YCA Auditions in Seoul, Korea. At 15, she won First Prize at the 2009 Johansen International Competition in Washington, D.C., Second Prize at the 2009 International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, and the Young Musician Prize of the Emanuel Feuermann Competition in Berlin. She was also awarded Germany’s Kronberg Academy Cello Festival’s 2009 Ingrid zu Solms Culture Prize.

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This season, Lee makes her Kennedy Center debut, co-presented with Washington Performing Arts and supported by the Korean Concert Society Prize, and her New York recital debut, sponsored by the Michaels Award. She also performs at Colgate University, Buffalo Chamber Music Society, the Paramount Theatre, the Jewish Community Alliance in Florida, the Lied Center of Kansas, and the Music@Menlo Festival.

Lee has been invited to perform as a soloist with Korea’s leading orchestras including the Seoul Philharmonic under Myung-Whun Chung, the Suwon Philharmonic, the Prime Philharmonic, the Korean National University of Arts Orchestra, the Gangnam Symphony and GMMFS orchestras. She made her Seoul recital debut at the age of 13 on the Kumho Prodigy Concert Series and has given recitals at the Blue House in Seoul and the Musée du Louvre in Paris. Lee has been featured on KBS (the Korean Broadcasting System).

Born in Seoul, Korea, Lee attended the Korean National University of Arts, from the age of nine, where she worked with Myung Wha Chung and Sang Min Park. She currently attends the Curtis Institute of Music, working with Peter Wiley and (YCA Alumnus) Carter Brey.

Noreen Cassidy-Polera The pianist Noreen Cassidy-Polera ranks among the most highly-regarded chamber artists performing today, and maintains a career that has taken her to every major American music center and abroad to Europe, Russia, and performing arts centers of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Seoul. Recent performances include appearances at the Caramoor, Bard, Grand Teton and Cape Cod Chamber Music Festivals, as well as engagements at the Chamber Music Societies of Philadelphia and La Jolla. She has recorded for Sony, EMI, Audiophon and Centaur Records.

Cassidy-Polera has collaborated with leading soloists including cellists Narek Hakhnazaryan, Matt Haimovitz, Carter Brey, Antonio Menesis and Yo-Yo Ma. Winner of the Accompanying Prize at the Eighth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, she regularly collaborates with laureates of the Queen Elisabeth, Tchaikovsky and Naumburg international competitions.

Cassidy-Polera’s mastery of the complete cello-piano repertory is widely-known, as is her dedication to performing the works of living composers. In recent seasons she has performed Elliott Carter’s venerable Sonata for Cello and Piano on tour in Paris, New York and Philadelphia, along with new works by Lowell Liebermann, Benjamin C.S. Boyle and Kenji Bunch to critical acclaim. Her CD Sound Vessels (with cellist Scott Kluksdahl) features the recording premiere of Richard Wernick’s Duo, as well as works of Robert Helps, Augusta Read Thomas and Elliott Carter.

Noreen Cassidy-Polera holds Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Martin Canin.