Sojung Lee Hong has enjoyed her dual career as a performer and educator as Associate Professor of Piano at Judson University, Elgin, IL. She received President's Award from Seoul National University upon graduation, the Founder's Award from Seoul Arts High School as valedictorian, and earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the U.S. she has appeared as a recitalist and concerto soloist in IL, MI, OH, PA, and NJ. She has also given many solo and chamber music concerts at such major venues as the Seoul Arts Center, Sejong Arts Center, and Hoam Arts Hall in Korea. She was invited as a clinician at the annual conference of Illinois State Music Teachers Association at Mililkin University and Eastern Illinois University and taught/performed as a guest artist-teacher at Eum-Youn Summer Piano Academy and Festival, Korea.

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JeongSoo Kim is Associate Professor of Piano at Northern Illinois University. She received her bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University, her master’s degree from the New England Conservatory, and her doctorate in piano performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music. She has had numerous solo and chamber music performances throughout the United States, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and Costa Rica, and has participated in the Aspen and Chautauqua music festivals. She has performed as a soloist with the Philippines Philharmonic Orchestra and Kun-San City Orchestra. Her recent performing activities include solo, chamber, and piano duo recitals at Eastman School of Music, Northwestern University, Boston University, Philippine Women’s University, Seoul City University, Kawai Piano Concert Hall, and Taiwan National Normal University. Dr. Kim has presented lecture recitals at the College Music Society International Conference and the Illinois State Music Teachers’ Association Annual Convention.

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Misook Kim, faculty in composition at Wheaton College received her B.A. with the honor of Cum Laude from Seoul National University and her M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in composition and the certificate of piano performance at University of Texas, Austin.  Reviewer Mike Greenberg, writing in the San Antonio Express-News, called the composer ‘a bold and unrepentant modernist.’ He also wrote her music was fearlessly modern – spiky, protean, often highly compressed, proudly declining to participate in the fashion for “accessibility.’ Kim has performed as a composer as well as a pianist in various concerts of her own works and other composers, including commissions for the MUSICOPIA Concert, Olmos Ensemble. She has won International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) Judith Zaimont Award and the Long Island Arts Council International Composition Competition. The universities where she formerly taught include the University of the Incarnate Word and Trinity University in San Antonio, TX.

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Jennie Brown, guest lecturer in flute at Wheaton College is a founding member of the Chicago New Arts Trio and the Lunaire Chamber Ensemble.  She performed as visiting artists at Eastman School of Music, Indiana State University, the University of Illinois, University of Texas – San Antonio, and Trinity College. She was also a fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Music Academy of the West.  Dr. Brown received her Doctorate of Musical Arts, Performer’s Certificate, and Master’s Degrees from the Eastman School of Music.  She received her Bachelor of Music Degree from Northwestern University.  She is a lifetime member and former president of the Chicago Flute Club, a member of the National Flute Association, and a member of both the Musicians’ Club of Women and the American Federation of Musicians.

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Carolyn Hart, soprano, is Associate Professor and Chair of Voice at Wheaton College. She is a frequent performer of recital, oratorio and orchestral repertoire. She performs regularly in the Chicago area and has toured extensively throughout Canada and Great Britain. Further concerts have taken her to Hong Kong, Korea and most recently New York and Paris. Carolyn holds degrees from the University of Toronto, and completed her Doctorate at the University of British Columbia. Further studies have taken her to the Banff School of Fine Arts; Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh, England; and the Académie de Musique in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Yoonjoo Rachel Song graduated from Seoul Arts High School and Ehwa Women's University, where she was selected to perform the whole movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto. Ms. Song was accepted into the class of Alois Brandhofer, Principal Clarinetist of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Karajan, at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, where she received her BM, graduating with honors. She continued her studies under Ulf Rodenhäuser at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Münich, Germany, where she received her Masters and Doctorate in Music. She performed on numerous stages in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. She also performed at a benefit concert conducted by Lorin Maazel in Munich. In Korea, Ms. Song performed with various chamber musicians, clarinet quartets, woodwind quintets and was a guest clarinetist with the Wonju, Suwon and Korean Symphony Orchestras. She held her first Korean solo recital at the Seoul Arts Center in 2005. She was a member of the Prime Philharmonic Orchestra, and taught clarinet at the Seoul University of Education.

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Kyu James Lee studied Clarinet Performance at New England Conservatory of Music, where he won the Talent Scholarship. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree in Northeastern Illinois University. He was a 3rd prize winner for Kishwakee Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Lee joined faculty at Logo’s Elementary school in Niles since 2005 and also has performed with the Chicago Clarinet Ensemble. He is a founding member of the Con Espiritu Clarinet Quartet featured by Dr. Rose Sperrazza, Assistant 1st Clarinetist at Madison Symphony. His principle teachers were Dong Jin Kim, John Bruce Yeh, Craig Nordstrom, and Rose Sperrazza.

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Jee-Eun Song received her MM in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at Northwestern University and BM in Piano Performance at Oberlin Conservatory.  She won the concerto competition at Norhtwestern University and performed with NU Symphony Orchestra.  She served as an accompanying staff at Northwestern and a faculty for Midwest Young Artist Vocal Program and for VOICExperience(directed by Sherrill Milnes and Maria Zouves) in Chicago, Orlando, and Tampa. She played numerous concerts for Chicago Voice Ensemble in Chicago, Wisconsin, and Detroit. She worked on the collaboration with singers such as Jennifer Larmore, Gianna Rolandi, Elizabeth Buccheri, Sherrill Milnes, Tito Capobianco, and more.

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Eun Kyung Kim has a bachelor’s degree in Cello performance from the Seoul National University, Korea and a master’s degree in Cello Performance and String Pedagogy from the Temple University in Philadelphia. She was a member of Incheon City Orchestra and Civic Orchestra of Chicago. As a church music performer and teacher, she serves as Director of Cello Department at Fellowship Music Academy in Schaumburg, IL and the Korean Church of Chicago in Hoffman Estates, IL, and also performs regularly at Willow Creek Church.

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Soojeong Lee received Bachelor of Music degree in Cello Performance at Seoul National University and Master of Music degree at Northwestern University. She graduated from Seoul Arts High School, was awarded numerous honors including the first prize in the Music World Competition, and soloed with Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra. In Korea, she was a member of Buchon Philharmonic Orchestra and Clematis Chamber Orchestra. She also participated in Bösendorfer Music Seminar in Vienna, Austria. In the U.S. she appeared as a soloist with Korean American Youth Orchestra and performed regularly at Harold Washington Library and Sulzer Library in Chicago as a member of Korean American Piano Trio. She was one of the founding faculty at Canaan Music School in Glenview and a guest cello principle of Northwest Symphony Orchestra.

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Hyun Ji Choi earned her bachelor’s degree from the Juilliard School and her master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music both as a scholarship student.  She is a winner of New York String Teachers Association Competition and Young Artist Chamber Music Competition She performed at Alice Tully Hall of the Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Juilliard Theatre. She also participated in Pacific Music Festival, National Orchestral Institute, Toronto Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and Killington Music Festival. She is working on her doctoral degree on performance at the Eastman School of Music as a graduate award recipient, and a secondary teaching assistant for Professor Alan Harris.  Currently, she is a member of Civic Orchestra of Chicago.

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Nazar Dzhuryn is a native of Lviv, Ukraine. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from the Lviv Music School and a Master of Music degree from the Moscow State Conservatory. Upon graduation, he taught for two years at the Moscow State Conservatory as the Assistant to Professor Gavrysh. He was the principal cellist of the Moscow Conservatory Symphony and the Moscow State Symphony “Young Russia”. He performed in numerous solo recitals throughout Russia, Ukraine, South America, Africa, and the United States and was a soloist with the Moscow Conservatory Symphony, the Moscow State Symphony, and the Lviv Philharmonia Symphony. He currently teaches as a faculty at Northeastern Illinois University and Elgin Community College.  Mr. Dzhuryn also serves as the assistant principal cellist of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra.

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“Pages from a Travel”

Florent Schmitt (1870-1958)

Schmitt was a prolific composer for all his long life—notching 138 opus numbers, including every genre except for opera—but the works he is remembered for were written in his youth. He was difficult to pigeonhole, and has been called everything from conservative to neo-Romantic to revolutionary. His music, characterized by rhythmic energy, refined orchestration, and tonal harmony, combines his admiration for impressionism and the beginning of the reaction against it. It contains from echoes of Franck to anticipations of Stravinsky. Dutilleux wrote that Schmitt "gave back to the French school certain notions of grandeur."

Schmitt only got interested in music during his teenage years, and studied in Nancy and later in Paris with Massenet and Fauré. He won the Prix de Rome in his fifth attempt, aged 30. From Rome he sent his first masterpiece, the choral-orchestral Psalm 47 (1904). Three years later he wrote a ballet, later rearranged as symphonic poem, La tragédie de Salomé, whose violence was uncommon in French music and which became his most famous piece. He was a member of the Societé Musicale Indépendante in 1908, director of the Conservatoire de Lyon (1922-1924), and music critic for Le Temps (1929-1939). In 1932, he appeared as soloist in his Symphonie Concertante for piano and orchestra in Boston. In 1938 he was appointed President of the Societé Nationale de Musique. Other important works were his Piano Quintet (1908), a string quartet, the Sonata Libre en deux parts enchainées for violin and piano, and two symphonies, the last of which was premiered only two months before his death. © Hector Bellman, All Music Guid

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Seven Little Pieces for Flute and Piano

Misook Kim, faculty in composition at Wheaton College received her B.A. with the honor of Cum Laude from Seoul National University and her M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in composition and the certificate of piano performance at University of Texas, Austin.  Reviewer Mike Greenberg, writing in the San Antonio Express-News, called the composer ‘a bold and unrepentant modernist.’ He also wrote her music was fearlessly modern – spiky, protean, often highly compressed, proudly declining to participate in the fashion for “accessibility.’ Kim has performed as a composer as well as a pianist in various concerts of her own works and other composers, including commissions for the MUSICOPIA Concert, Olmos Ensemble. She has won International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) Judith Zaimont Award and the Long Island Arts Council International Composition Competition. The universities where she formerly taught include the University of the Incarnate Word and Trinity University in San Antonio, TX.

She won the Sejong International Music Composition Competition in 2008. Video clips of the performances of her winning piece "Joy of Ong He Ya", for violin and piano pre-college students are posted on the Sejong Cultural Society website. Performance by Jennifer Eugena Cha (12 years old) at Sejong Music Competition Winners Concert. Performance by Desiree Ruhstrat, (Lincoln Trio Member) at the 2009 Sejong Benefit Concert.

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Konzertstueck, No. 2

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.

The grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, he was born into the notable Jewish family which later converted to Christianity. He was recognized early as a musical prodigy, but his parents were cautious and did not seek to capitalise on his abilities. Indeed his father was disinclined to allow Felix to follow a musical career until it became clear that he intended to seriously dedicate himself to it.

Early success in Germany was followed by travel throughout Europe; Mendelssohn was particularly well received in England as a composer, conductor and soloist, and his ten visits there, during which many of his major works were premiered, form an important part of his adult career. His essentially conservative musical tastes however set him apart from many of his more adventurous musical contemporaries such as Liszt, Wagner and Berlioz. The Conservatoire he founded at Leipzig became a bastion of this anti-radical outlook.

Mendelssohn's work includes symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano and chamber music. He also had an important role in the revival of interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his creative originality is now being recognized and re-evaluated. He is now among the most popular composers of the Romantic era.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Sonata for Two Clarinets and Piano

Flutist-composer-pianist Gary Schocker is an accomplished musician of outstanding versatility.  At age 15, he made his professional debut when he performed as soloist with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

He has won numerous competitions including the Young Concert Artists, the National Flute Association, the NY Flute Club and the East-West Artists. Often, he concertizes in duo with guitarist Jason Vieaux.  Internationally, he has toured and taught in Colombia, Panama, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, Japan, Germany, France and Italy.Schocker has composed sonatas and chamber music for most instruments of the orchestra.

He also has written several musicals, including Far From the Madding Crowd and The Awakening, which can be heard on Original Cast Recordings. Both shows were winners of the Global Search for New Musicals in the UK and were performed in Cardiff and at the Edinburgh Festival, as well as in New Zealand. In New York, they were winners of the ASCAP music theatre awards.

Schocker has won the International Clarinet Association’s annual composition competition twice and the National Flute Association’s annual Newly Published Music Award numerous times. Among artists who have played his compositions, James Galway gave the American premier of Green Places with the New Jersey Symphony.

In 2008 Schocker was commissioned to write the required piece “Biwako Wind” for the International Flute Competition in Biwako, Japan for which he also served as judge.

Gary has private flute studios in NYC and Easton, PA where he dually resides.  He is on the faculty at NYU.  He performs on both Haynes and Powell flutes and headjoints of David Williams (platinum) and David Chu (boxwood). 

source - websit:e www.garyschocker.com

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Cello Duet "with 2 obligato Eyeglasses"

Ludwig van Beethoven;(1770 – 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time.

Born in Bonn, which was then capital of the Electorate of Cologne and a part of the Holy Rman Empire of the German Nation in present-day Germany, he moved to Vienna in his early twenties and settled there, studying with Joseph Haydn and quickly gaining a reputation as a virtuoso pianist. His hearing began to deteriorate in the late 1790s, yet he continued to compose, conduct, and perform, even after becoming completely deaf.

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Sonata K-358

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (German: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ amaˈdeus ˈmoːtsart], full baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart (1756 – 1791), was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over six hundred works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers.

Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always composing abundantly. Visiting Vienna in 1781 he was dismissed from his Salzburg position and chose to stay in the capital, where over the rest of his life he achieved fame but little financial security. The final years in Vienna yielded many of his best-known symphonies, concertos, and operas, and the Requiem. The circumstances of his early death have been much mythologized. He was survived by his wife Constanze and two sons.

Mozart always learned voraciously from others, and developed a brilliance and maturity of style that encompassed the light and graceful along with the dark and passionate—the whole informed by a vision of humanity "redeemed through art, forgiven, and reconciled with nature and the absolute". His influence on all subsequent Western art music is profound. Beethoven wrote his own early compositions in the shadow of Mozart, of whom Joseph Haydn wrote that "posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years".

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Danse Rituelle Du Feu

Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946)

Born in 1876 in Cadiz, the historical seaport town at the southern-most tip of Andalucia, Manuel de Falla is the greatest Spanish composer of this century. His formal musical education began with piano lessons, and when Falla was twenty his family moved to Madrid where he studied with the distinguished teacher José Tragó. He then went on to study composition with Felipe Pedrell, the teacher and scholar who led the revival of Spanish music which took place towards the end of the nineteenth century. In 1904 Falla's one-act opera La vida breve (Life is Short) won the composition competition of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes and at the same time he was awarded a prestigious piano prize organised by the piano makers Ortiz y Cussó.

In 1907 he achieved a long-held ambition of travelling to Paris and was welcomed there by Ravel, Debussy (with whom he had previously corresponded) and especially by Paul Dukas. He completed several chamber works and began work on Noches en los jardines de Espãna (Nights in Gardens of Spain )before the outbreak of war in 1914 compelled him to return to his native country. Two years later he was approached by Diaghilev to write a work for the Russian Ballet and in response composed a mime-play in two tableaux, El corregidor y la molinera (The Magistrate and the Miller's Wife) which, with some subsequent revisions, became El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat), and was produced highly successfully in London in 1919 with choreography by Massine and designs by Picasso.

Following the deaths of his parents in 1919 he settled in Granada, where he remained until the end of the Civil War (1939), and composed several of his most important works including El retablo de maese Pedro (Master Peter's Puppet Show), Psyché and Concerto per clavicembalo (Harpsichord Concerto). He then moved to Argentina and worked there until his death in 1946 just a few days before his 70th birthday, leaving the vast oratorio Atlántida still unfinished.

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A Cellist’s Variations on “Home on the Range”

Tom Flaherty has received grants, prizes, awards, and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, American Music Center, the Pasadena Arts Council, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, the Delius Society, the University of Southern California, "Meet the Composer", and Yaddo.

Published by Margun Music, Inc. and American Composers Editions, his music has been performed throughout Europe and North America, and is recorded on the Albany. Klavier, Bridge, SEAMUS, Capstone, and Advance labels.

He earned degrees at Brandeis University, S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, and the University of Southern California; his primary teachers in composition include Martin Boykan, Bülent Arel, Robert Linn, and Frederick Lesemann. He studied cello with Timothy Eddy and Bernard Greenhouse.A founding member of the Almont Ensemble, he currently holds the John P. and Magdalena R. Dexter Professorship in Music and is Director of the Electronic Studio at Pomona College. He is an active cellist in the Los Angeles area.

Recent commissions include A Heckuva Job for guitarist David Starobin,  When Time Was Young for Lucy Shelton, and Moments of Inertia for Dinosaur Annex, and Gleeful Variants for Genevieve Lee.    

souece - website: www.tomflahertymusic.com

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Invitation

꿈을 심는 가을 음악회

주최: 시카고 한국일보, 서울대학교 시카고지역 동창회
Northeastern Illinois University Auditorium
2009년10월24일(토요일) 5시30분
Tickets: $30

천고마비(天高馬肥)의 계절이라고도 하는 가을이 돌아왔읍니다.  맑고 푸른 하늘아래 단풍이 노랗게 물들어 가는 평원에서의 안식과, 곡식이 알알이 영글며 수확을 맡게되는 결실의 계절을 맞이하게 되었읍니다.  이제 얼마 안 있으면 다사 다난했던 올해 한 해도 뒤로 보내면서, 또 한번 희망의 새해를 맞이하여 새로운 시작을 또 하게됩니다.  이러한 시점에서, 우리는 우리에게 주어진 시간과 기회, 그리고 주위의 따뜻한 사랑, 우정과 인정을 또다시 감사하게 됩니다.  

하루하루를 분주하게 살아가는 우리들이지만 우리의 생활엔 반드시 쉼과 나눔이 필요합니다. 아름다운 음악의 세계에 잠시라도 침잠하여 쉬고, 또한 젊은 우리의 후배들과의 나눔을 가질 수 있도록 “꿈을 심는 가을 음악회” 를 10월 24일 토요일 오후 5시 30분부터 Northeastern Illinois University 대강당 에서 열게 되었습니다.  .

이번 음악회의 모든 수익은 향학열이 높고, 학업성적이 우수하며, 또한 지역사회에 봉사활동을 많이한 우수한 젊은 한인 대학생 및 대학원 학생을 찾아, 재정적 도움을 주고자 하는 장학사업에 쓰여지게 됩니다. 

우리 젊은 2세 들의 빛나는 미래의 꿈을 심어줄 장학사업의 일환인 이 음악회는 또한 우리 시카고 한인 지역사회의 예술 문화 수준을 더 한층 높이는데 크게 공헌할 것입니다.

음악의 감동과 함께 우리의 가진 것을 나누는 기쁨을 더불어 누리는 아름다운 시간에 동참해 주시고 후원해 주심을 진심으로 감사드리며 풍성히 나누는 마음에 하나님의 큰 축복이 넘치시길 소원합니다.