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SUMMARY:Yoonah Kim\, clarinet & Wynona Wang\, piano
DESCRIPTION:Robert Schumann: Romance in F-sharp major\, op. 28 no. 2 Robert Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 1 in f-sharp minor\, Op. 11  \n\n\n\nClara Schumann: 3 Romances for violin and piano\, Op.22\,(arranged for clarinet and piano by Yoonah Kim)  \n\n\n\nJohannes Brahms: Sonata in E-flat major for clarinet and piano\, Op. 120 No. 2 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHailed by The New York Times for her “inexhaustible virtuosity”\, clarinetist Yoonah Kim is rapidly earning recognition as a young artist of uncommon musical depth and versatility. Yoonah is a winner of the 2016 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. The first solo clarinetist to win CAG in nearly 30 years\, this Korean-Canadian artist joins the ranks of prominent solo clarinetists discovered by CAG\, including David Shifrin\, Michael Collins\, and David Krakauer. \n\n\n\nRecent performance highlights include Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with the Maui Chamber Orchestra\, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue in a new arrangement for solo clarinet and string orchestra by Texu Kim\, and the World Premiere of a new concerto by Eric Nathan for Violin and Clarinet\, with violinist Stefan Jackiw and the New York Classical Players. Her recent chamber music appearances include performances of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with Stefan Jackiw\, cellist Jay Campbell and pianist Orion Weiss at Princeton University and the Crypt in New York City and also with the Junction Trio (Stefan Jackiw\, Jay Campbell\, and pianist Conrad Tao) at Rockefeller University.  \n\n\n\nYoonah recently made her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall\, and has also given debut recitals for Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts series\, Washington Performing Arts’ Music in the Country series\, Chamber Music Society of Little Rock and Union County Performing Arts Center. She also appeared as concerto soloist with the Arkansas Symphony Youth Orchestra\, the Chesapeake Youth Symphony\, and the DuPage Symphony Orchestra.  \n\n\n\nIn 2016\, Yoonah became the first woman to win first prize at the Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition\, leading to her world premiere performance of Pocket Concerto by American composer Dag Gabrielsen at The Music for All National Festival in Indianapolis\, presented by Yamaha. Earlier that year\, she was a featured soloist at Juilliard’s Focus Festival\, performing Donald Martino’s A Set for Clarinet at Peter Jay Sharp Theater in New York City. \n\n\n\nFrom 2016 to 2018\, Yoonah was a member of Ensemble Connect (formerly Ensemble ACJW)\, a highly selective two-year fellowship program under the joint auspices of Carnegie Hall\, The Weill Institute\, and The Juilliard School. With Ensemble Connect\, she performed regularly at Carnegie Hall\, often in collaboration with renowned conductors and guest artists. Highlights include collaborations with Sir Simon Rattle at Zankel Hall\, and with soprano Natalie Dessay at the Philharmonie de Paris. \n\n\n\nYoonah tours regularly with the ensembles FOUNDERS and Frisson\, and has appeared at chamber music festivals\, including the Marlboro Music Festival\, Mainly Mozart Festival\, Chautauqua Music Festival\, California’s Festival Napa Valley\, Maine’s Bay Chamber Music Festival\, Bravo! Vail\, Sarasota Music Festival\, and The Banff Centre Music Festival and the Thessaloniki Festival in Greece. \n\n\n\nBorn in Seoul and raised in British Columbia\, Yoonah Kim holds a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Mannes College of Music at The New School\, where she studied clarinet under Charles Neidich. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChinese pianist Wynona Wang was selected as First Prize winner of the 2018 Concert Artists Guild International Competition\, which is just the latest in a series of impressive first prize performances\, along with the 2017 Wideman International Piano Competition in Louisiana. Among the many performance prizes awarded to her with these victories\, she will make her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall during the 2019-20 season on the CAG Winners series. \n\n\n\nAn active performer in China\, Europe and the United States\, Wynona recently earned her Performer’s Diploma under the tutelage of the eminent pianist Alessio Bax at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. While at SMU. she appeared in multiple concerto performances as well as numerous recitals and chamber music concerts\, including collaborations with cellist Andres Diaz and with the Escher String Quartet. Her upcoming itinerary features recitals in New York and Florida\, and concerto engagements in California and Texas. \n\n\n\nOther recent North American performances include the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra\, and the Meadows Symphony Orchestra of SMU in Dallas\, and such major festivals as PianoTexas\, Morningside Music Bridge in Calgary\, Canada\, the International Keyboard Institute & Festival in New York City\, and the Chautauqua Institution. Internationally\, Wynona has been a featured soloist with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine\, and the Romanian Mihail Jora Philharmonic Orchestra in Italy. She has also given numerous solo piano recitals in China—including cities such as Beijing\, Qingdao\, Hangzhou\, Wuhan\, Shenzhen\, Kunming\, Ningbo\, and Dalian—as well as in Spain (Madrid) and Indonesia (Jakarta). \n\n\n\nIn addition to her most recent first prize successes\, she has also garnered top honors at numerous competitions: the Meadows Concerto Competition at SMU; the Artist Recognition Scholarship Awards Competition at NYC’s International Keyboard Institute & Festival; the Hamamatsu International Piano Academy Competition in Japan; the First Indonesia Pusaka International Piano Competition in Jakarta; IX International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in Ukraine; and the Chautauqua Piano Competition. \n\n\n\nBorn in Beijing\, Wynona Wang began playing piano at age 4\, and went on to study at both the Music Elementary and Secondary schools at the prestigious Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) in Beijing. In fall 2016\, she was awarded a full scholarship for her Performer’s Diploma at Southern Methodist University in Dallas\, and she now lives in New York while pursuing her undergraduate degree at The Juilliard School as a student of Dr. Robert McDonald. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                        \n                            \n                \n                    \n\n        \n    A bonus concert in the beautiful month of May! \nCritically acclaimed pianist Kristina Marinova performs four rhapsodies not often heard together in a live performance. These works for solo piano present a range of technical demands as well as contrasted moods\, colors\, and tonal progressions. They express spontaneity and bursts of improvisation with interplay between stark drama\, dance\, virtuosity\, and dazzling yet tender reflection.\n\n     \n\n\n\n        \n          \nCANCELED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES \n     \n\n        \n                    \n                    \n\n        \n                \n        \n    \n    \n        \n        \n                    \n                \n                        \n        \n                        \n                        \n                        \n                    \n\n        \n        Kristina Marinova has been described as a virtuoso pianist with extreme energy and youthful vibrance. Her clear and precise tone enhances her stormy expressions and performances\, full of grace\, serenity\, style\, and beauty. \nShe is currently working on a new concert series in New York\, a music festival in France\, as well as numerous collaborative concerts in the US and Europe. Her next recording project will be the Goldberg Variations\, BWV 988 by Johann Sebastian Bach. \nA native of Plodiv\, Bulgaria\, Kristina entered the world of art at the age of four. She was accepted to the National Academy of Music and Dance for Gifted Children “Dobrin Petkov” and went on to attend the National Conservatory of Music in Sofia\, Burgaria. The pianist holds a Masters Degree in Piano Performance from the University of Michigan\, where she was offered a full graduate fellowship and later was invited to specialize at the Keyboard Collaborative Arts Program at the University of Southern California(USC). \nKristina has appeared in major music festivals as a performer and educator and has collaborated with some of the world’s most prominent musicians. She has also been awarded numerous prizes and fellowships including the Virtuoso Etudes Piano Competition\, German Compositions Piano Competition\, Piano Solo Concerto Competition for the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra\, the Ohrid Summer Festival\, UCA Piano Concerto Competition and UCA Piano Competition\, and the Arts on Tour- Arts Council. \n 
URL:https://friendsmusic.org/event/may-2021/
LOCATION:Stamford United Methodist Church\, 88 Main St.\, Stamford\, NY\, 12167\, United States
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SUMMARY:Misha & Cipa Dichter\, piano
DESCRIPTION:Misha Dichter\, pianist\n\n\n\nNow in the sixth decade of a distinguished global career\, MISHA DICHTER remains one of America’s most popular artists\, extending a musical heritage from the Russian Romantic School\, as personified by Rosina Lhevinne\, his mentor at The Juilliard School\, and the German Classical style that was passed on to him by Aube Tzerko\, a pupil of Artur Schnabel. He also studied composition and analysis with Leonard Stein\, a disciple of Arnold Schoenberg.  \n\n\n\nBorn in Shanghai to parents who had fled Poland at the outbreak of World War II\, Misha Dichter and his family moved to Los Angeles when he was two; he began studying the piano at five. At the age of 20\, while enrolled at the famed Juilliard School in New York City\, he won the Silver Medal at the 1966 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow\, which helped launch an enviable concert career. Shortly thereafter\, on August 14\, 1966\, Mr. Dichter was the guest soloist in a Tanglewood performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Erich Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony Orchestra\, a concert that was broadcast nationally on NBC and subsequently recorded for RCA. Two years later\, he made his New York Philharmonic debut under the baton of Leonard Bernstein\, collaborating on the same concerto. Appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic\, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra\, the principal London orchestras and every major American orchestra soon followed.  \n\n\n\nA recognized champion of Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony #2\, Age of Anxiety\, Misha Dichter performed this great work with David Zinman and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the 2016 Ravinia Festival. During the 2017-18 season\, he collaborated on Age of Anxiety with Maestro Zinman and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin\, David Itkin and the University of North Texas Symphony Orchestra and Ward Stare and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.  \n\n\n\nMisha Dichter has performed and recorded with some of the most illustrious conductors of the 20th and 21st centuries\, among them Leonard Bernstein\, Pierre Boulez\, Colin Davis\, Lawrence Foster\, Valery Gergiev\, Carlo Maria Guilini\, Bernard Haitink\, Mariss Jansons\, Kiril Kondrashin\, Erich Leinsdorf\, James Levine\, Lorin Maazel\, Neville Marriner\, Kurt Masur\, Riccardo Muti\, Eugene Ormandy\, Carlos Prieto\, André Previn\, Simon Rattle\, Gerard Schwarz\, Robert Shaw\, Leonard Slatkin\, Robert Spano\, William Steinberg\, Michael Tilson Thomas\, Hans Vonk\, Edo de Waart\, David Zinman and Pinchas Zukerman\, while notable chamber music collaborations have included violinists Itzhak Perlman\, Mark Peskanov and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg\, cellists Lynn Harrell and Yo-Yo Ma and the American\, Argus\, Cleveland\, Emerson\, Guarneri\, Harlem\, St. Petersburg and Tokyo string quartets. With his wife\, pianist Cipa Dichter\, he has toured North America and Europe\, presenting both masterworks and neglected scores of the two-piano and piano-four-hand repertoires. Mr. Dichter has been seen frequently on national television and was the subject of an hour-long European television documentary.  \n\n\n\nMisha Dichter’s discography on the Philips\, RCA\, MusicMasters and Koch Classics labels are legendary\, iconic and musically omnivorous\, encompassing the major scores of Beethoven\, Brahms\, Chopin\, Gershwin\, Liszt\, Mussorgsky\, Schubert\, Schumann\, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. A noted exponent of Liszt’s piano works and a champion of the composer’s forward-looking contributions to the development of music\, Mr. Dichter was honored in 1988 with the “Grand Prix International du Disque Liszt\,” presented for his Philips recording of the master’s piano transcriptions. His first recording with Cipa Dichter is a three-CD set of Mozart’s complete piano works for four hands and is available on the Nimbus label. American Record Guide called the album “an unmitigated delight\,” and Music Web International named it a 2005 “Record of the Year.”  \n\n\n\nIn 2007\, Misha Dichter took a three-month hiatus from the concert stage to deal with the onset of Dupuytren’s Disease\, a contracting of one or more fingers. After totally successful surgery and physical therapy\, Mr. Dichter returned to public performance and became a supporter of\, and spokesperson for\, the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. A brief audio/video presentation\, “Dupuytren’s Contracture: Misha Dichter – A Pianist Reborn\,” is accessible on YouTube.  \n\n\n\nMisha Dichter is an accomplished writer\, having contributed articles to many leading publications\, including The New York Times. He is also a talented sketch artist\, and in 2012 an e-book of his music-related illustrations\, “A Pianist’s World in Drawings\,” was released by Rosetta Books. Available on Amazon.com\, BN.com and from iTunes\, the e-book compiles over 50 original drawings that were created over the span of Mr. Dichter’s half-century career. (For more information\, visit www.apianistsworldindrawings.com)  \n\n\n\nFiercely dedicated to extending his artistic traditions to new generations of pianists\, Misha Dichter conducts widely attended masterclasses at major conservatories\, universities and music festivals\, including Aspen\, Curtis\, Eastman\, Harvard\, Juilliard\, Yale and Holland’s Conservatorium van Amsterdam.  \n\n\n\nwww.mishadichter.com \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n                    \n                        \n                        \n                            \n                \n                    \n\n        \n    A bonus concert in the beautiful month of May! \nCritically acclaimed pianist Kristina Marinova performs four rhapsodies not often heard together in a live performance. These works for solo piano present a range of technical demands as well as contrasted moods\, colors\, and tonal progressions. They express spontaneity and bursts of improvisation with interplay between stark drama\, dance\, virtuosity\, and dazzling yet tender reflection.\n\n     \n\n\n\n        \n          \nCANCELED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES \n     \n\n        \n                    \n                    \n\n        \n                \n        \n    \n    \n        \n        \n                    \n                \n                        \n        \n                        \n                        \n                        \n                    \n\n        \n        Kristina Marinova has been described as a virtuoso pianist with extreme energy and youthful vibrance. Her clear and precise tone enhances her stormy expressions and performances\, full of grace\, serenity\, style\, and beauty. \nShe is currently working on a new concert series in New York\, a music festival in France\, as well as numerous collaborative concerts in the US and Europe. Her next recording project will be the Goldberg Variations\, BWV 988 by Johann Sebastian Bach. \nA native of Plodiv\, Bulgaria\, Kristina entered the world of art at the age of four. She was accepted to the National Academy of Music and Dance for Gifted Children “Dobrin Petkov” and went on to attend the National Conservatory of Music in Sofia\, Burgaria. The pianist holds a Masters Degree in Piano Performance from the University of Michigan\, where she was offered a full graduate fellowship and later was invited to specialize at the Keyboard Collaborative Arts Program at the University of Southern California(USC). \nKristina has appeared in major music festivals as a performer and educator and has collaborated with some of the world’s most prominent musicians. She has also been awarded numerous prizes and fellowships including the Virtuoso Etudes Piano Competition\, German Compositions Piano Competition\, Piano Solo Concerto Competition for the Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra\, the Ohrid Summer Festival\, UCA Piano Concerto Competition and UCA Piano Competition\, and the Arts on Tour- Arts Council. \n 
URL:https://friendsmusic.org/event/april-2021/
LOCATION:Stamford United Methodist Church\, 88 Main St.\, Stamford\, NY\, 12167\, United States
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