Shea-Kim Duo

Sunday, October 20, 2024 at 3pm 

Bach, Schnittke, Paganini, Haydn, Schumann

Suggested donation: $15 adults, $10 students and seniors, free for ages 13 and under

No reservations required.

The award-winning Shea-Kim Duo was formed in 2014 by husband and wife Brendan Shea (violin) and Yerin Kim (piano). Since then, they have competed internationally and toured the world, performing in Belgium, Italy, Canada, South Korea, and the United States.

Listen to the Shea-Kim Duo’s recent interview with WSKG’s Bill Snyder here.

The Shea-Kim Duo’s awards include a Gold Medal from the Manhattan International Music Competition and the Ackerman Chamber Music Award, while their performances have been broadcast on Klara Continuo (Belgium), PBC (South Korea) and WUFT (USA). The artists have released two highly acclaimed CDs on the Blue Griffin Recording label: “The Sound and the Fury,” including music of Dvorák, Grieg and Janácek, and “All Roads,” featuring works by Beethoven, Schnittke, Schumann and Beach.

Actively involved in promoting chamber music to a broader community and audience, the Shea-Kim Duo regularly presents sensory-friendly concerts that provide high-quality chamber music for individuals and families with autism. The Duo also regularly appears at several notable music festivals, including those of Anchorage, Annapolis and Harborfront, and are the founders and artistic directors of Washington’s Chamber Music in the Bend.

A much sought after soloist, chamber musician and teacher, BRENDAN SHEA, by the age of 11, was performing with orchestras and had played at New York City’s Carnegie Hall. His awards span three continents and include Gold Medal and Audience Award from the Chesapeake International Chamber Music Competition, Grand Prize from the Coleman Chamber Music Competition, First Place with Honors from the Glazunov International Competition in Paris and Bronze Medal from the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. Brendan has been affiliated with two distinguished, award-winning quartets, as a founding member of the Wasmuth Quartet (now Verona) and as a member of the Euclid Quartet. Currently, he serves as concertmaster of the Boise Philharmonic and Langroise Trio Artist-in-Residence at the College of Idaho. His solo career has taken him across the globe, with performances in major venues in Europe and Asia as well as throughout the United States, while he also performs and teaches at prestigious festivals and residencies, including the Encore Chamber Music Festival and Credo Music Festival. Brendan has been a guest faculty member at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and University of Notre Dame and served for five years on the faculty of Indiana University South Bend. His current violin was crafted in 2000 by Samuel Zygmuntowicz in Brooklyn, New York.

Praised by the International Piano Magazine as a “pianist of beautiful finesse and golden tone,” YERIN KIM enjoys a multi-faceted career as soloist, chamber musician, recording artist and educator. She has performed in numerous festival and recital performances in internationally renowned venues, among them: Carnegie Hall, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Rolston Hall at Canada’s Banff Centre for the Arts and Place Flagey in Brussels. Yerin’s debut solo album, “First and Last Words,” with works by Schumann and Schnittke, was released
in 2019 on the Sheva Collection label. Holding a Double Degree in Piano Performance and Psychology from Oberlin Conservatory and College, a Master of Music from Indiana University Bloomington and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, she is equally passionate about music education, and has been teaching a diverse group of students from many parts of the world. Yerin has taught at the Indiana University Bloomington, University of Notre Dame, State University of New York at Stony Brook and South Korea’s Chugye University for the Arts Conservatory, and has recently joined the faculty of Central Washington University as Assistant Professor of Piano and Director of Keyboard Studies.