Fundraising Benefit Dinner
for Sejong Cultural Society

Saturday, February 25, 2012
Drury Lane, Oakbrook
100 Drury Lane
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
(630) 530-8300

 

Master of Ceremony: Won Jung Park, KBC TV Chicago, Channel 41

Won J. Park is the producer and the host for KBC TV Ch.41's popular evening show News Magazine for 5 years.
Prior to TV, he was announcer and DJ for various radio stations including Seoul Broadcasting, Radio Korea, and KCBS.
Park also has a professional music career as a choir director, composer, and jazz piano.

Program:

Keynote Speech
Honorable Chul Huh,
Consul General of Republic of Korea

Performances:
Byungman Son, Bongsan Talchum (Korean Traditional Mask Dances) and Salpuri

Korean mask dance dramas are not just dances performed by masked dancers but also include significant dramatic content with masked characters portraying people, animals and sometimes supernatural beings. These folk dramas reflect the frustrations felt by the lower classes towards the Confucian literati Yangban, due to the latter's treatment of the commoners, show the life of the common man and process social problems such as monks who ignore their precepts and men who cast off their old wives.

Mr. Byungman Son has been performing the Korean mask dance over twenty years and has been teaching Bongsan Talchum over eight years in Korea. He is one of the officially designated Bongsan Talchum performer (무형문화재 17호 봉산탈춤 이수자).

What is Bongsan Talchum ?
watch a 4 min video clip "Welcome to Bongsan Talchum"

Also performances by

Sejong Music Competition Winners:

Trenton Takaki, piano
(Piano Senior Division First place and
Best Interpretation of Korean Piece award)
Jennifer Cha, violin
(2010 Violin Senior Division First place and
Best Interpretation of Korean Piece award)
and more...

Reservation and more information at Sejong Cultural Society webstie:

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Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra presents "World Music: Korea"
Jennifer Cha, violin

Sunday, March 18, 2012  3PM
Lincolnwood Community Center
6900 N. Lincoln Ave
Lincolnwood, IL 60712
(847) 673-1540

New Work - Violin solo for Chamber Orchestra
"Minwha Sokeuro" (민화 속으로) by  Sungki Kim

Jennifer Cha, violin
winner of 2010 Sejong Music Competition

"One of the rising stars of the Chicago music scene, 14 year-old violinist Jennifer Cha is already a veteran of the concert stage. Jennifer began playing the violin at the age of 4 while living in South Korea. She gave her first violin recital at the age of 7 and made her concerto debut at the age of 11 with the Oistrach Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Mina Zikri. Miss Cha toured Germany in 2003 and Italy in 2005 for performances, including performing for Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican as part of the Betty Haag Magical Strings of Youth...." ~ source - 98.7 WFMT classical radio website April16, 2011 by David Polk   ...read full article

Listen to Jennifer Cha performing Joy of Ongheya "옹헤야의 기쁨" by Misook Kim at 98.7 WFMT Introductions program
click the play button
April 16, 2011 broadcasting (Audio length 3:04)

(Courtesy of 98.7 WFMT Introductions)

Listen to the WFMT "Introductions" full program with Jennifer Cha
click the play button
April 16, 2011 broadcasting (Audio length 44;13)

(Courtesy of 98.7 WFMT Introductions)

With Support from the Sejong Cultural Society

 

 

 

Music In The Loft presents

Musicians from Ravinia's Steans Music Institute
Friday, April 6, 2012 - 8 pm

Music In The Loft
1017 W. Washington Blvd #4H
Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: 312.919.5030

Miriam Fried, violin	Tessa Lark, violin	Ayane Kozasa, viola
Deborah Pae, cello	Nathan Vickery, cello	Adam Golka, piano

A chamber ensemble selected each year from the most promising musicians attending the institute's summer session at Ravinia. The ensemble has been praised for its "impressive maturity and virtually faultless ensemble." They will perform works by Mozart, Bernard Rands and Schubert.

“The young musicians who played my Second String Quartet so beautifully were extraordinary both in technical accomplishment and sensitive, musical intelligence.” - Bernard Rands, composer

more at Music In The Loft website

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