MUSIC AT EMORY
2022–2023
MUSIC AT EMORY
Caleb Park, cello Senior Recital
with Matthew Brower, piano, and Kaito Mimura, violin
Saturday, April 8, 2023, 2:00 p.m.
Emerson Concert Hall, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Program
Suite No. 6 in D Major, BWV 1012
Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude (1685–1750)
Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque
—Brief Intermission—
Duo for Violin and Cello, op. 7
Caleb Park, cello
Caleb Park, 22, from Columbia, Maryland, is a cellist studying chemistry and music performance at Emory University. He has been playing for 18 years and currently studies under Guang Wang of the Vega Quartet. Park has also studied at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University with Alison Wells. Park serves as co-principal cello in the Emory University Symphony Orchestra (EUSO) and has served as principal cellist in the Peabody Youth Orchestra. He has won numerous competitions— including the EUSO Concerto and Aria Competition—and was a quarterfinalist in the 2015 National Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. In 2016, Park performed Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Concert Artists of Baltimore Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Edward Polochick. Park has attended the Indiana University Performance Academy and Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, and has worked with renowned cellists such as Amit Peled, Zuill Bailey, and Lynn Harrell. In the summers of 2016–2018, Park was one of six cellists to participate in the Verbier Music Festival. He currently plays an Ernst Heinrich Roth Markneukirchen 1938 reproduction of an Antonius Stradivarius Cremona 1714 German cello, generously loaned by the Carlsen Cello Foundation.
Matthew Brower, piano
Ernest Bloch (1880–1959)
Matthew Brower is an artist affiliate in piano at Emory University and Agnes Scott College and a member of 6-WIRE, a violin–erhu–piano trio that combines classical chamber music with styles from around the world. Brower has appeared in many prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Kimmel Center, and the Shanghai Oriental Art Center. He received his doctoral and master’s degrees in collaborative piano from the University of Michigan and his bachelor’s degree in piano performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Zoltán Kodály Allegro serioso, non troppo (1882–1967)
Morceaux de fantaisie, op. 3
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Elégie in E-flat Minor (1873–1943)
Variations on a Theme of Rossini, H. 290
Bohuslav Martinu (1890–1959)
Kaito Mimura, violin
Kaito Mimura, a senior at Emory University, is a chemistry and music double major. He began studying the violin at age three when his grandfather gave him his first violin and soon after, began violin lessons with his mother. He met Caleb Park after being part of the Verbier Junior Festival Orchestra during summer 2018. Since then, they have continued to make music together during their time at Emory.
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Cover Design: Lisa Baron | Cover Photo: Mark Teague
This recital is presented by the Department of Music at Emory University | music.emory.edu2022–2023
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