Korea Music Foundation


'09 Annual Holiday Concert Thursday, December 17, 7pm Korean Cultural Service NY 460 Park Avenue (6th floor), NYC Program H. Steckmest - Fantasie on Mendelssohn’s On Wings of Song A. Doppler - Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise Op. 26 for flute and piano Molto Andante Andantino Moderato Allegro Sang Joon Park,flute F. Chopin - Polonaise A-flat major R. Schumann/F.Liszt - Widmung Ji-Yong, piano F. Chopin - *Nocturne* in D major, Op. 27, No. 2 P. Sarasate - Introduction and Tarantella Op. 43 Daniel Cho, violin John J. Niles - I wonder as I wonder Pietro Yon - Jesu Bambino A. Adam - Oh Holy Night Sun Young Chang, soprano Sang Joon Park, flute Sing Along Christmas Carols Juny Jung at piano Meet the Artists Flutist Sang Joon Park* was the recipient of the prestigious 2005 Samuel Baron Prize awarded at the SUNY Stony Brook University where he earned his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree under Carol Wincenc. He studied with distinguished flutists such as Wilbert Hazelzet, Sandra Miller, Janet See, Stephen Schultz, Jed Wentz, Linda Chesis, Judith Mendenhall and Thomas Nyfenger, and participated in Amherst Early Music Festival, Longy Baroque Institute, and Vancouver Early Music Programme. He is the artistic director of the Baroque trio Aula Harmoniae, and is a member of several Baroque chamber groups including Rossignols Amoureux, Flying Forms, Ensemble La Sylva, Newton Baroque, Flying Forms, La Donna Musicale, Catacoustic Consort, Bacchanalia Baroque, Empire Viols, Concert Royal, and The Grand Tour Orchestra, with performances in Canada, the Netherlands, Taiwan and the United States. Mr. Park made his debut as an opera conductor with Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at New York’s Amato Opera in its final 2009 season. Ji-Yong has been hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "a thorough musician with a sound and style that seemed astonishingly mature" and "a gifted, sensitive young pianist who is clearly going places." Under the baton of Kurt Masur, he made a highly acclaimed debut with the New York Philharmonic performing Mozart Piano Concerto in D Minor, K. 466. In addition to his appearance at Avery Fisher Hall, Ji-Yong has performed at such esteemed venues as Chicago's Orchestra Hall, Aspen Music Festival's Benedict Music Tent and Prague's Smetana Hall, and in recital at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, and at St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall. In 2007, Ji-Yong performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Peter Oundjian’s baton. In the 2008-09 season, Ji-Yong performed the Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor with the Nashville Symphony and he made his first worldwide CD release with Telarc as a part of the “From the Top with the Cincinnati Pops” under Erich Kunzel’s baton. Ji-Yong has made numerous recital appearances in Aspen, Baton Rouge, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Laramie, Memphis, Miami, New York, Orlando, the Florida Keys, and on Ravinia's Rising Stars series. In the summer of 2009, Ji-Yong toured as a member of Ensemble DITTO in Korea and will continue to do so every summer. A young, up-and-coming soloist on New York’s concert scene, Daniel Cho currently attends The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division as a scholarship student studying with Hyo Kang. He has given numerous solo and chamber music performances around New York City and in Korea including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2008 as the result of winning the 10th New York Competition. His other teachers include Yu-Jeong Lee and I-Hao Lee. Sun Young Chang, soprano, holds a Master of Music degree and a Professional Studies Diploma from Mannes College, the New School for Music. She performed Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme with the Opera Company of Brooklyn and was a finalist in the Connecticut Opera Guild Competition and the Violetta Du Pont Competition. She was also a semi-finalist in The Joy in Singing Competition in 2008. Her other operatic performances include Ann Troulove in The Rake's Progress, Nella and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Micaela in Carmen and Marguerite in Faust. She recently returned from Hot Springs Music Festival where she gave a number of performances including Brahm’s Liebeslieders Waltzer op.52 and Micaela in La Tragedie de Carmen. Currently, she is a faculty member of Concordia Conservatory and the Westerhoff School of Music & Art. Juny Jung was presented at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in 2004 receiving the highest acclaim. He has also given recitals at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Greenwich House Music School, The Kosciuszko Foundation as well as other halls in New York City and abroad. Mr. Jung received Masters degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and the Mannes College of Music where he earned a Professional diploma as well. He has participated in the International Keyboard Festival in NYC, Hidden Valley Music Festival in Carmel, California and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California where he attended on full scholarship. He is the Music Director of the Simons’ Pond Music Festival, a well-known chamber music series in northeastern Pennsylvania, has presented numerous concerts in the last 10 years including benefit concerts for WJFF National Public Radio and the Louis August Jonas Foundation. His music has been broadcasted on many occasions on WJFF National Public Radio as well as on WQXR 96.3 the radio station of the New York Times. He has been a guest lecturer at NYU. He resides in New Jersey where he teaches piano and appears frequently as accompanist, church musician and concert pianist.
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'09 Annual Holiday Concert

Thursday, December 17, 7pm
Korean Cultural Service NY
460 Park Avenue (6th floor), NYC

Program

H. Steckmest - Fantasie on Mendelssohn’s On Wings of Song

A. Doppler - Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise Op. 26 for flute and piano
Molto Andante
Andantino Moderato
Allegro

Sang Joon Park,flute

F. Chopin - Polonaise A-flat major
R. Schumann/F.Liszt - Widmung

Ji-Yong, piano

F. Chopin - Nocturne in D major, Op. 27, No. 2
P. Sarasate - Introduction and Tarantella Op. 43

Daniel Cho, violin

John J. Niles - I wonder as I wonder
Pietro Yon - Jesu Bambino
A. Adam - Oh Holy Night

Sun Young Chang, soprano
Sang Joon Park, flute

Sing Along Christmas Carols

*Juny Jung at piano

Meet the Artists

Flutist Sang Joon Park was the recipient of the prestigious 2005 Samuel Baron Prize awarded at the SUNY Stony Brook University where he earned his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree under Carol Wincenc. He studied with distinguished flutists such as Wilbert Hazelzet, Sandra Miller, Janet See, Stephen Schultz, Jed Wentz, Linda Chesis, Judith Mendenhall and Thomas Nyfenger, and participated in Amherst Early Music Festival, Longy Baroque Institute, and Vancouver Early Music Programme. He is the artistic director of the Baroque trio Aula Harmoniae, and is a member of several Baroque chamber groups including Rossignols Amoureux, Flying Forms, Ensemble La Sylva, Newton Baroque, Flying Forms, La Donna Musicale, Catacoustic Consort, Bacchanalia Baroque, Empire Viols, Concert Royal, and The Grand Tour Orchestra, with performances in Canada, the Netherlands, Taiwan and the United States. Mr. Park made his debut as an opera conductor with Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at New York’s Amato Opera in its final 2009 season.

Ji-Yong has been hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "a thorough musician with a sound and style that seemed astonishingly mature" and "a gifted, sensitive young pianist who is clearly going places." Under the baton of Kurt Masur, he made a highly acclaimed debut with the New York Philharmonic performing Mozart Piano Concerto in D Minor, K. 466. In addition to his appearance at Avery Fisher Hall, Ji-Yong has performed at such esteemed venues as Chicago's Orchestra Hall, Aspen Music Festival's Benedict Music Tent and Prague's Smetana Hall, and in recital at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, and at St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall. In 2007, Ji-Yong performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Peter Oundjian’s baton. In the 2008-09 season, Ji-Yong performed the Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor with the Nashville Symphony and he made his first worldwide CD release with Telarc as a part of the “From the Top with the Cincinnati Pops” under Erich Kunzel’s baton. Ji-Yong has made numerous recital appearances in Aspen, Baton Rouge, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Laramie, Memphis, Miami, New York, Orlando, the Florida Keys, and on Ravinia's Rising Stars series. In the summer of 2009, Ji-Yong toured as a member of Ensemble DITTO in Korea and will continue to do so every summer.

A young, up-and-coming soloist on New York’s concert scene, Daniel Cho currently attends The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division as a scholarship student studying with Hyo Kang. He has given numerous solo and chamber music performances around New York City and in Korea including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2008 as the result of winning the 10th New York Competition. His other teachers include Yu-Jeong Lee and I-Hao Lee.

Sun Young Chang, soprano, holds a Master of Music degree and a Professional Studies Diploma from Mannes College, the New School for Music. She performed Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme with the Opera Company of Brooklyn and was a finalist in the Connecticut Opera Guild Competition and the Violetta Du Pont Competition. She was also a semi-finalist in The Joy in Singing Competition in 2008. Her other operatic performances include Ann Troulove in The Rake's Progress, Nella and Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Micaela in Carmen and Marguerite in Faust. She recently returned from Hot Springs Music Festival where she gave a number of performances including Brahm’s Liebeslieders Waltzer op.52 and Micaela in La Tragedie de Carmen. Currently, she is a faculty member of Concordia Conservatory and the Westerhoff School of Music & Art.

Juny Jung was presented at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in 2004 receiving the highest acclaim. He has also given recitals at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Greenwich House Music School, The Kosciuszko Foundation as well as other halls in New York City and abroad. Mr. Jung received Masters degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and the Mannes College of Music where he earned a Professional diploma as well. He has participated in the International Keyboard Festival in NYC, Hidden Valley Music Festival in Carmel, California and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California where he attended on full scholarship. He is the Music Director of the Simons’ Pond Music Festival, a well-known chamber music series in northeastern Pennsylvania, has presented numerous concerts in the last 10 years including benefit concerts for WJFF National Public Radio and the Louis August Jonas Foundation. His music has been broadcasted on many occasions on WJFF National Public Radio as well as on WQXR 96.3 the radio station of the New York Times. He has been a guest lecturer at NYU. He resides in New Jersey where he teaches piano and appears frequently as accompanist, church musician and concert pianist.