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Dongmin Kim, Music Director

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JI-YONG,CHRIS

and SHOSTAKOVICH

KYUNGA C.AHN/O.RESPIGHI/D.SHOSTAKOVICH/B.BRI!EN

DONGMIN KIM conductorJI-YONG piano

CHRIS COLE!I trumpet

2 0 1 2 – 2 0 1 3 S E A S O N

CONCERT CYCLE 1

JI-YONG, CHRIS and SHOSTAKOVICH

DONGMIN KIM conductor JI-YONG piano

CHRISTOPHER COLETTI trumpet

September 29 (Sat), 2012, 8pm / Chodae Community Church (Norwood, NJ)

September 30 (Sun), 2012, 3pm / Church of the Heavenly Rest (New York, NY)

KYUNGA CAROLINE AHN Around Us for String Orchestra (commissioned by NYCP) *World Premier

OTTORINO RESPIGHI Ancient Airs and Dances No. 3

1. Italiana 2. Arie di corte 3. Siciliana 4. Passacaglia

= INTERMISSION =

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Concerto No. 1 for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, Op. 35

1. Allegretto-Allegro vivace 2. Lento 3. Moderato 4. Allegro con brio-Presto

BENJAMIN BRITTEN Simple Symphony, Op. 4

1. Boisterous Bourrée 2. Playful Pizzicato 3. Sentimental Saraband 4. Frolicsome Finale

NOTES ON THE PROGRAM

KYUNGA CAROLINE AHN (1975-) Around Us for String Orchestra (2012) Few months ago, one of my friends asked me to translate a letter for his mom from English to Korean. I immediately realized that there was something wrong with his mother. His mom had only few more days to live after battling with terminal cancer for several years. While I was translating his letter, I could not stop thinking about the meaning of our lives in this world. Where are we going and what do we live for.... The only thing that I knew was we neglect to even think about things and people Around Us... how precious and important they are. Inspired by this meaningful occasion, I decided to write a piece that tells about our life story. Simple to listen, but has great meaning to it...'Around Us' is dedicated to New York Classical Players and my friend who lost his mother. The concept of 'being around' led me to come up with the 17th Century Concerto Grosso form that divides orchestra into two groups- Concertino (group of soloists) and Ripieno (Orchestra). The Ripieno group is sorrounded by Concertino and these two groups will alternatively take roles to describe a story of our life.

Kyunga Caroline Ahn OTTORINO RESPIGHI (1879-1936) Ancient Airs and Dances No. 3 (1932) Respighi was perhaps at his finest when conjuring up atmospheric scenes by means of a large orchestra used with virtuosity. But he was also a scholarly man who was fascinated by the music of the past. Using the resources of a modern symphony orchestra, Respighi wrote three suites of 'ancient airs and dances', which are in essence reconstructions and elaborations of music spanning two centuries, in which the original pieces are given new transcriptions and aesthetically dressed in contemporary garb. The third and final suite was composed in 1932, and, unlike the others, is scored for strings alone. The opening Italiana is based on an anonymous late 16th century popular song, and this is followed by a series of short pieces, alternately fast and slow, by the Burgundian lutenist Jean-Baptiste Besard (1567-1617 approx.) After the Siciliana, the final Passacaglia is taken from a work by Lodvicio Roncalli, a significant late seventeenth century Spanish composer who wrote extensively for the guitar.

Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975) Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35 (1933) Shostakovich achieved phenomenal success with his First Symphony in 1926. 7 years later he created his First Piano Concerto. It was written immediately after Shostakovich had penned his 24 Preludes for solo piano. There is a relationship in character and pianistic style between the two works. The concerto's scoring was unique: strings with a prominent role for solo trumpet. The trumpet part

(which is practically a second solo voice) was conceived for Alexander Schmidt, principal trumpet of the Leningrad Philharmonic. Shostakovich was a pianist of considerable gifts. He had studied with Leonid Nikolayev at the Petrograd Conservatory. He won honorable mention at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. The concerto thus provided a bravura showpiece for Shostakovich’s performing career. He gave the premiere on October 15, 1933 with the Leningrad Philharmonic under the baton of Fritz Stiedry. (Stiedry would subsequently garner acclaim at England’s Glyndebourne Festival and New York’s Metropolitan Opera.) The piano’s opening melody is somewhat capricious. The orchestral strings offer a subtle commentary throughout the first movement’s development. (Shostakovich would use a similarly sparse orchestration in his final concerto and the Violin Concerto No.2 of 1967.) The Lento is surprisingly romantic. There are moments when the piano writing approaches Rachmaninoff or early Scriabin. The Moderato movement is an extended cadenza which introduces the Allegro con brio finale. This lively movement gives the trumpet an extended role. There is a sense of musical parody as Shostakovich quotes Beethoven’s Rage Over a Lost Penny, a Haydn sonata, and his own Hamlet incidental music. The entire movement forms a brilliant, rapid fire showpiece for the piano soloist.

Lawrence Budmen BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976) Simple Symphony, Op. 4 (1934) Born on the name day of the patron saint of music, St. Cecilia, Benjamin Britten became, appropriately enough, Britain’s foremost composer. He studied piano and the viola, and began composing at the age of five. His viola teacher, Audrey Alston, introduced the boy to the composer Frank Bridge (also a viola player), and he became Bridge’s only pupil for composition. The pairing was magical: Britten became almost an adopted son to the Bridges, and learned a good measure of his independence from the iconoclastic Bridge, who had already blazed his own trail away from the mainstream of British music. A Simple Symphony dates from 1934 and is the earliest of the composer’s works for string ensemble. The whimsical titles for the movements reflect the music’s origins in childhood pieces written by Britten between the ages of nine and twelve. The work was premiered on March 9, 1934, with the composer conducting the mostly amateur Norwich String Orchestra. In this playful and engaging work, Britten manages to evoke some of the string orchestra textures that would be further developed in his later Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge without overtaxing the capabilities of modestly proficient players. The work definitely benefits from a performance by skilled players, however, particularly in the pizzicato second movement, which is marked Presto possibile (as fast as possible).

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MEET THE ARTISTS

KYUNGA CAROLINE AHN composer Born in 1975 in Seoul, Korea, KyungA (Caroline) earned her Doctor of Music in Composition degree from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Master of Music in Composition and Master of Arts in Music Theory degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from Yonsei University (Seoul). Her compositions include orchestral, chamber, and theatrical works that have been widely performed in South Korea, the United States, and Europe. Her achievements include being chosen in the Miami (FL) selection for New Music Days, as one of the six candidates to represent USA in the ISCM (International Society for Contemporary Music). She has also received the Excellence in Composition prize for her piece “Sailing to the Deep Blue Sea” for Brass Ensemble at the IBCF (International Brass Chamber Music Festival, KY) and an honorable mention by IAWM (International Alliance for Women in Music) for the Libby Larsen Prize for her piece “Midnight Wind” for Chamber Orchestra. Her chamber piece “Forgotten Times: 5 songs on Emily Dickenson’s Poems” has earned her a performance selection for the SCI (Society of Composers, INC) national conference at Ball State University (IN). KyungA also received a commission ‘The 3Beats’ trio, and wrote a variation set on a famous theme of ‘Fur Elise’ by Beethoven which was broadcasted in Morning 8 TV channel in Indianapolis (IN) and performed in Summer Camp at DePauw University, IN and West Lafayette IN by Hannah Lee Piano Trio in June 2012. She recently got a commission from Carmel city of Indiana and wrote theme music for Carmel Festival (IN) in July 2012 which used in TV and Radio commercials for the city. JI-YONG piano A truly extraordinary artist, pianist Ji-Yong has both an awe-inspiring technique and a musical depth well beyond his 21 years. In 2001 at the age of ten, Ji-Yong became the youngest pianist ever to win the New York Philharmonic Young Artists Competition. He subsequently made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in Avery Fisher Hall under the baton of Kurt Masur. In 2005, Ji-Yong won the Piano Competition at the Aspen Music Festival and performed with Peter Oundjian and the Aspen Concert Orchestra in the Benedict Music Tent which led to his debut with the Toronto Symphony the subsequent year. He has additionally performed at venues including the New Jersey Performing Arts Center with the New Jersey Symphony and in recital at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, the Sheremetev Palace in Russia. Ji-Yong has also made numerous recital appearances including in Aspen, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Laramie (WY), Opelika (AL), Memphis, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles (LA), Stuart (FL), Miami,)and New York. His recital at William Jewell College in Kansas City was deemed as one of the top five arts events of the city in 2004 by the Kansas City Star. In 2007, Ji-Yong made his debut on the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival's Rising Star Series.

In 2010, Ji-Yong made his debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Jirí Belohlávek at the first ever outdoor classical gala concert in Korea and also collaborated with world-renowned ballerina, Sue Jin Kang, other principles from the Stuttgart Ballet (Marijn Rademaker and Jason Reilly), and pianist Marika Bournaki at the Seoul Art Center's Opera House. In November 2010, Ji-Yong made his debut recital at Seoul Art Center's Concert Hall as a part of his 'LISZTOMANIA' tour in Korea. Ji-Yong has also worked on making some of his visions for classical music come true by putting his creative ideas on his performances. For his 'Stop & Listen' outdoor guerrilla performances in the spring of 2010, Ji-Yong worked with one of Korea's renowned pop art painters, Tae Jung Kim and designed his very own piano using pop art, also known as the 'Ji-T' piano. Also in 2010, Ji-Yong collaborated with FREE Tempo for his single 'STAY' and performed and lectured at the HyundaiCard's 'Super Talk I-Innovation in Art' After beginning his piano studies in his native Korea, Ji-Yong and his family came to the United States and enrolled in the Music Preparatory Division of Mannes College, studying with Yuri Kim. Ji-Yong also studied with Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky and he is currently a student of Choong-Mo Kang at the Juilliard School. CHRISTOPHER COLETTI trumpet Since joining Canadian Brass in 2009, trumpeter/arranger Christopher Coletti has performed hundred of concerts, TV and radio appearances around the world with the group, recorded 4 billboard chart-topping/award-winning CDs, filmed multiple music videos, and arranged a plethora of music that The Brass has recorded and regularly performs. Canadian Brass' dedication to music education is a perfect fit for Coletti who enjoys sharing his unique perspective as a full-time performer, active educator, and recent college graduate with students and fellow teachers. Coletti received his Masters Degree from The Juilliard School and his Bachelors Degree from Manhattan School of Music which he completed in just 3 years. Throughout his education, Coletti received multiple awards and scholarships, and won a number of competitions including the Music Academy of the West Chamber Concerto Competition, Manhattan School of Music Concerto Competition, LaGuardia Arts Concerto Competition Staten Island Symphony Concerto Competition, The Tanglewood Music Center Charles E. Culpeper Foundation Fellowship and Susan B. Kaplan Fellowship,The Juilliard School Frieda and Harry Aronson Scholarship, and The Manhattan School of Music President Scholarship. Coletti got his professional start as Principal Trumpet of The Huntsville Symphony in Alabama. Comfortable in many musical styles, Coletti has performed with a wide range of musicians ranging from Yefim Bronfman, Pierre Boulez, Michael Tilson Thomas and Ricardo Muti to Quincy Jones, Carlos Santana, Gloria Estefan, and Miami Sound Machine. Coletti has perfect pitch, is a proficient whistler, and has the unique ability to sing an operatic high C.

NEW YORK CLASSICAL PLAYERS “Exuberant chamber orchestra!” “Admirably dedicated to bringing free music!”

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The New York Classical Players (NYCP) is a professional chamber orchestra of highly-gifted young instrumentalists from different cultures committed to bringing FREE classical repertoire concerts to the public. Envisioned by Dongmin Kim in 2009, the NYCP brings together seven nationalities combining personal and cultural strengths and a high level of chamber musicianship based upon democratic principles in the process of creating music. Trained at distinguished music institutions, members of the NYCP are en route to careers as critically acclaimed soloists, chamber musicians, and orchestral musicians in major American orchestras. Music Director Dongmin Kim has conducted orchestras in Germany, Italy, Mexico, Canada, Korea, and the States such as the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C. and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Studying with Kurt Masur, Leonard Slatkin and Christoph Eschenbach, he was awarded the distinguished Karajan Fellowship and served a residency with the Wien Philharmonic at the Salzburg Music Festival, and was a cover conductor as the Schmidt Conducting Fellow at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Now in their third season in 2012-2013, the NYCP continues to present 12 FREE CONCERTS in different venues around the New York metropolitan area. Repertoire includes pieces spanning from Bach and Haydn to Frank Lewin. This season’s guest artists include Cho-Liang Lin(violin), Stefan Jackiw(violin), Brook Speltz(cello), Chris Coletti(trumpet), Ji-Yong(piano), Eunshik Pakr(piano) and the Andy Lin(erhu). In addition, the NYCP is highly committed to creating new repertoire to convey a different dimension of interest to the public by presenting pieces by young outstanding composers of today, including, Jay Lin, KyungA Caroline Ahn and Lan-In Winnie Yang. As one of today's most exciting young performing arts organizations, the NYCP takes on the responsibility of being an emerging cultural source by connecting people with a broader world of musical art and culture.

MISSION The New York Classical Players reaches out to diverse audiences in order to enrich the human spirit and enhance cultural vitality of life through performances at the highest artistic level by today's most exciting young instrumentalists making their artistic careers in New York metropolitan area and beyond.

CORE VALUE Uncompromising artistic excellence Engagement with community Innovative vision Collaboration and Teamwork Committed to fiscal responsibility

MUSICIANS VIOLIN SIWOO KIM ALEXI KENNEY YOOJIN CHO ROBIN BRAUN DE SIERRA JISUN KANG XIAO WANG DANBEE PARK VIOLA SUNGHEE CHOI FITZ GARY MADELINE SHARP CELLO HYERI JANG MICHAEL UNTERMAN JONATHAN LO DOUBLE BASS ANDREW ROITSTEIN

ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP DONGMIN KIM music director / principal conductor

Dongmin Kim is quickly establishing himself as one of the most exciting and versatile conductors of his generation. He gave a critically acclaimed debut with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center. He was also at the podium with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the

Indianapolis Symphony, the Jacksonville Symphony, the Memphis Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Virginia Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmonica de la UNAM, the Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic and the Ensemble Zandonai, among many others. Dongmin has conducted The Magic Flute at the Seoul Arts Center with “9-sold-out” performances. He was the first to conduct a new opera Lorenzo de Medici by P.Q.Phan in 2007. He led Die Flut by Boris Blacher, and Bastien und Bastienne by Mozart. As assistant conductor at the IU Opera Theater, he covered La Traviata, Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, The Tale of Hoffman, and West Side Story among others. Dongmin was awarded the distinguished The Karajan Fellowship and served a residency with the Wien Philharmonic at the Salzburg Music Festival. He has also studied and worked together with Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, Leonard Slatkin, Christoph Eschenbach, Mstislav Rostropovich, Sergiu Comissiona, and Gustav Meier. As one of conducting staffs at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra as the Schmidt Conducting Fellow, a position he has held until 2006, Dongmin covered entire classical series for such artists as Raynold Leppard, Andrew Litton, Christoph Poppen, Garrick Ohlsson, Andre Watts, Lynn Harrell and Lang Lang. As a fine violist, Dongmin Kim has held the principal viola positions at the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra under the music directorship of Michael Tilson-Thomas, the Yonsei Symphony Orchestra in Seoul and the IU Symphony Orchestra. He was the first violist ever to win First Prize in the Yonsei Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition where he appeared as solo violist with great success. As a recitalist and chamber musician, he has given numerous concerts in Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore as well as the United States. A native of Seoul, Dongmin Kim studied orchestral conducting at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University under David Effron, Thomas Baldner and Imre Pallo. As associate instructor, he taught the graduate conducting courses, and served as the music director of the IU All Campus Orchestra. Prior to his study in the States, he graduated from Yonsei University, where he was awarded the Music Merit Scholarship.

DAXUN ZHANG leader / double bass

"If the bass is finally to produce a headliner, the instrument can have no better champion than Zhang,"

- The Washington Post DaXun Zhang received Japan’s prestigious Aoyama Award in 2010. In April 2007, Mr. Zhang won an Avery Fisher Career Grant, only the second

double bassist in the history of this prestigious award. He is the first double bass player to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and start a career under the auspices of Young Concert Artists. He also won the La Jolla Music Society Prize, the Orchestra New England Soloist Prize, and The Fergus Prize. In April 2006, Mr. Zhang performed his arrangement of Waxman's Carmen Fantasy in at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall with Keith Lockhart conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's. Mr. Zhang was the first double bassist ever to win first prize in the 2003 WAMSO Competition, leading to a performance with the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra with Osmo Vanska, conducting. In 2001, Mr. Zhang was the youngest artist ever to win the International Society of Bassists Solo Competition. He has also received the Grand Prize of the American String Teachers Association National Solo Competition. Mr. Zhang has performed extensively with the Silk Road Project, including concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall, and in China and Japan. He recorded the soundtrack to a 10-part documentary series with the Silk Road Project and its Artistic Director, Yo-Yo Ma, which aired in Japan on NHK Television. As concerto soloist, Mr. Zhang has appeared with prominent orchestras such as the Minnesota Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Lukes, the Tokyo Symphony, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony, etc. He has given recitals in US, Canada, UK, Italy, Panama, Japan, Korea and China. As a chamber musician, Mr. Zhang has appeared in music festivals such as the La Jolla Summer Fest, Music@Menlo, Strings in Mountains, Vancouver Summer Combustion and Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival. He was also a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two. A native of Harbin, China, He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and continued his studies in the U.S. at the Interlochen Arts Academy and received his Artist Diploma at the Indiana University School of Music. He has served on the faculty of Northwestern University and is Assistant Professor of Double Bass at the University of Texas at Austin.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS DONGMIN KIM Music Director/Principal Conductor BRIAN B. CHANG President, Cogent Global, Inc. JULIE C. KIM Pianist SEUNGHAE YANG Novelist/Writer YEJI CHA Brooklyn Academy of Music YE JIN KIM Design Director, La Prairie MINGI CHOI Physiatrist, Somerset Orthopedic Associates, P.A.

STAFF YEJI CHA general manager Brooklyn Academy of Music ANNA CHAE managing director BMW of North America YE JIN KIM art director La Prairie/ Joliyou by Ye Jin, Inc. YOOMI PAICK music arranger/librarian Tennessee Tech University EUNSHIK PARK sound designer Pianist

ARTISTIC ADVISORY JANOS STARKER cello Jacobs School of Music Indiana University JAIME LAREDO violin/conductor Music Director, Vermont Symphony Orchestra CHEE-YUN violin Concert Violinist DAVID KIM violin Concertmaster, Philadelphia Orchestra ALEXANDER KERR violin Concertmaster, Dallas Symphony Orchestra TSUYOSHI TSUTSUMI cello President, Toho Gakuen School of Music, Japan SHARON ROBINSON cello Faculty at Cleveland Institute of Music MICHELLE KIM violin Assistant Concertmaster, New York Philharmonic Orchestra DANIEL HEIFETZ violin Founder/Director, the Heifetz Music Institute  

 

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