Zlatomir Fung program

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MAR 24 2:00 pm

Pavilion

Zlatomir Fung cello

Zlatomir Fung appears by arrangement with Young Concert Artists, Inc. www.yca.org

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Dave and Gunda Hiebert are pleased to sponsor this afternoon’s performance.

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PROGRAM Zlatomir Fung, cello Janice Carissa, piano

Selections from 11 Capricci for Solo Cello Capriccio No. 1 Capriccio No. 2 Capriccio No. 6 Capriccio No. 11

Joseph Dall’Abaco (1710–1805)

Baal Shem, B. 47 Vidui Nigun Simchas Torah

Ernest Bloch (1880–1959)

Sequenza XIV for Cello

Luciano Berio (1925–2003)

20-Minute Intermission Prelude

Katherine Balch (1991–)

Sonata in E Minor, Op. 38 Allegro non troppo Allegretto quasi Menuetto – Trio Allegro

Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)

Program is subject to change.

Please see your pre- and post-performance emails for program notes.

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Zlatomir Fung Cellist Zlatomir Fung recently captured First Prize at the 2018 Schoenfeld International String Competition in China. He was also awarded the competition’s sole performance engagement prize, for a concert with Poland’s Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mr. Fung has appeared as soloist in the U.S. with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Boston Pops, Santa Cruz Symphony, Ann Arbor Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony and the New England Philharmonic. Abroad, he has been heard with Romania’s State Philharmonic of Sibiu, the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Bucharest, and the Lausanne Sinfonietta in Switzerland.

As a First Prize Winner of the 2017 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Mr. Fung makes his recital debuts in the Young Concert Artists Series at New York’s Merkin Concert Hall and Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center this season. He also won special performance prizes from the Buffalo Chamber Music Society Prize, the Embassy Series Prize in Washington, D.C., the Friends of Music Concerts Prize in Sleepy Hollow, NY, the Paramount Theatre Prize in Vermont, the Lied Center of Kansas Prize, the Sunday Musicale Prize in New Jersey, and the Slomovic Prize for sponsorship of an Orchestra Partnership Project concerto engagement.

Mr. Fung was a 2016 Presidential Scholar for the Arts, and he won the 2017 Astral National Auditions as well as First Prize at the George Enescu International Cello Competition in Romania. He has been featured on NPR’s radio show From the Top six times as well as on Performance Today.

Born in Oregon of Bulgarian-Chinese heritage, Zlatomir Fung and his family moved to the Boston area so he could attend the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. He is currently a full Kovner Fellowship student of Richard Aaron and Timothy Eddy at The Juilliard School. Outside of music, he enjoys cinema, reading philosophy and chess.

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Janice Carissa Janice Carissa’s engagements for 2019 include her second appearance with the Philadelphia Orchestra and a Ravinia Tour with Miriam Fried. Recent career highlights include her debut with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra playing Mozart Piano Concerto, and performances as soloist with the Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea; Midwest Young Artists Symphony Orchestra; Symphony in C; the Eastern Wind Symphony; and the Bay Atlantic Symphony. She appears regularly with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Concert Series, and has given solo recitals in New Mexico, Arizona, California and New York.

Ms. Carissa was invited to perform for the Auditorium opening at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris and has performed at notable venues including The Sydney Opera House, Stern and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall in New York, Miller Theater in Columbia University, Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University, the Kimmel Center, United Nations in New York, Oxford University’s St. Hilda’s College, Chicago’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music’s Concert Hall in Warsaw.

Ms. Carissa has been featured on television and radio throughout Indonesia and in the U.S. on Voice of America, WHYY-TV, WQXR, and NPR’s From the Top, and her numerous honors include a 2018 Career Grant from Charlotte White’s Salon De Virtuosi and being named a Young Scholar of Lang Lang’s International Music Foundation and Top Prize Winner of the IBLA Foundation’s 2006 International Piano Competition.

A native of Indonesia, Janice Carissa has performed for the President of Indonesia and other dignitaries at the Presidential Palace in Bogor, and for Lady Dewi Sukarno in Bali. She is currently the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studies with Gary Graffman and Robert McDonald.