Presentations: CAG Presents
Yoonah Kim, clarinet
Winner, 2016 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
With Mariko Furukawa, piano
Program:
Dawn to Dusk
Jörg Widmann: Fantasie for Solo Clarinet (1993)
Maurice Ravel: Pièce en forme de Habanera
Andrew Hsu: fumarole entombed (2018) *
Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in E-flat Major
*Commissioned by CAG with the generous support of the Adele and John Gray Endowment Fund
The first solo clarinetist to win CAG in nearly 30 years, Yoonah Kim became the first woman to win first prize at the Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition in 2016. She is also a member of Ensemble Connect, a highly selective two-year fellowship program under the joint auspices of Carnegie Hall, The Weill Institute, and The Juilliard School.
Upcoming in the Series
Argus Quartet
Co-First Prize Winner, 2017 CAG Competition
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Sponsored by Marilyn G. and Joseph B. Schwartz, longtime friends of CAG
The Argus Quartet has quickly emerged as one of today’s most dynamic and versatile young ensembles, winning First Prize at both the 2017 CAG Victor Elmaleh Competition and the 2017 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition. As the current Graduate Quartet in Residence at The Juilliard School, Argus is dedicated to reinvigorating the audience-performer relationship through innovative concerts and diverse programming. In that spirit, the ensemble’s repertoire includes not only masterworks of the chamber music canon, but also a wide range of pieces by living composers.
Ted Hearne: For David Lang (2017)
Juri Seo: Respiri (2016)
Janáček: String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters”
Intermission
Haydn: String Quartet in B minor, Op. 33 No. 1
Christopher Theofanidis: Visions and Miracles (1997/2002)
Prevailing Winds
CAG Encores!
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
CAG welcomes artists Imani Winds; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Steven Lin, piano; Tom Gallant, oboe; and PUBLIQuartet for a program of wind-centered works by Poulenc, Martinů, Russell Platt, and Valerie Coleman.
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Dominic Cheli, piano
Co-First Prize Winner, 2017 CAG Competition
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
Applauded by MusicWeb International for his “splendid playing…great skill and technical prowess,” St. Louis native Dominic Cheli‘s career is rapidly advancing. In addition to winning the CAG Competition in 2017, he was named the winner of the Music Academy of the West Concerto Competition and released his debut CD for the Naxos label, featuring the music of Muzio Clementi. Highlights of his 18-19 season include performances at the Mostly Mozart and Ravinia Festivals, in addition to his Weill Recital Hall debut with CAG.
The program will include works by Liszt, Scriabin, and David Hertzberg (world premiere – a co-commission by the BMI Foundation and CAG).
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