Viennese Romance Musicians

Pianist Jeewon Park is rapidly garnering the attentionPhoto of Jeewon Park of audiences for her dazzling technique, poetic lyricism and artistic versatility. She is sought after both as a recitalist and a chamber musician. Jeeown appeared as a soloist at Caramoor, Weill Recital Hall, Norfolk Music Festival, and Steinway Hall. She performed chamber music at the Spoleto USA Festival, Bridgehampton, Beethoven Festival (New York), Emilia-Romagna Festival (Italy), Taos (New Mexico), Music Alp in Courchevel (France), and Kusatsu Summer Music Festival (Japan). In addition, Jeewon appeared in concerts at Caramoor’s Rising Stars, Bargemusic, Alice Tully Hall, 92nd Street Y, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Kravis Center (Florida), San Antonio Chamber Music Society, Rubin Museum (New York City), and the Bronxville Chamber Music Series. Jeewon holds degrees from the Juilliard School and Yale University, where she was awarded the Dean Horatio Parker Prize. Her teachers include Herbert Stessin, Claude Frank and Gilbert Kalish.


Cellist Michal Korman was born in Jerusalem in 1983 and is currently michal 125completing her Masters in Music degree with Timothy Eddy at The Juilliard School. She earned her Bachelor's degree at the Buchman-Mehta School of Music in the cello class of Hillel Zori. Michal performed as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta, with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and with the Israel Camerata Jerusalem, and was invited to perform as soloist with The Tivoli Festival Orchestra, Copenhagen. Michal has participated in various festivals in the U.S. and Europe including the West-Eastern-Divan directed by Daniel Barenboim, the Yellow Barn Festival in Putney, Vermont, and the Marlboro Music Festival. Michal is an active chamber musician. She is a graduate of the Jerusalem Music Center Young Musicians Group and was featured in various live and recorded broadcasts on Israel National radio.


Horn player Ann Ellsworth is the solo horn player for the Grammy-nominated Absolute Ensemble and was formerly a member of the Esbjerg Ensemble, Manhattan Brass, Baltimore Opera, Phoenix Symphony, and Philharmonica del Bajio. The New York Times called her playing "outrageous" and "splendidly projected." An active soloist and chamber musician, Ann performed on several continents and can be heard in numerous recordings, film and television scores, and radio broadcasts. As Artist in Residence at the Lang College of the New School, she led many ground-breaking interdisciplinary events involving improvisation, dance, videography, and landscape architecture. Ann is committed to early music and has presented a lecture recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art using original instruments from their collection. As an advocate of new music, she is a founding member of the New Music and Culture Symposium and has premiered six new works in the past three years. In the summer of 2008 she performed Peter Maxwell Davies' Strathclyde Concerto with the Dartington Festival Orchestra in England. Ms. Ellsworth attended the Eastman and Juilliard Schools, with further study in Oslo, Norway and St. Petersburg, Russia. She held faculty positions at numerous schools in the New York City area and joined the Stonybrook faculty in September 2009.


Violinist Soovin Kim is the founder and Artistic Director

soovin 150of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival. He is increasingly sought after for the character, nuance, and excitement of his performances as concerto soloist, chamber musician and recitalist, both in the U.S. and abroad. Particularly known for his breadth of repertoire, Soovin typically takes on everything from solo Bach and Paganini to the big romantic concertos to new commissions. Highlights of the 2008-09 season were his Russia debut with the Moscow Symphony conducted by Ignat Solzhenitsyn, an octet tour with his own Johannes Quartet and the Guarneri Quartet performing newly-commisioned works by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Derek Bermel, and William Bolcom, and a tour of Europe with pianist Mitsuko Uchida. 


Soovin released his second recording with Azica Records in the summer of 2008, a French album of Fauré and Chausson with Jeremy Denk and the Jupiter Quartet. His first CD with Azica Records, Niccolò Paganini's demanding 24 Caprices for solo violin, was released in February 2006 and was named Classic FM magazine’s Instrumental Disc of the Month.


Soovin grew up for much of his childhood in the Champlain Valley in Plattsburgh, NY. He joined the Vermont Youth Orchestra as its then-youngest member at age 10, and later served as its concertmaster for three years. He is often heard in the Champlain Valley through his performances with the VYO, the Vermont Symphony, on the Lane Series at the University of Vermont, at Middlebury College, and on Vermont Public Radio. He plays the 1709 ex-Kempner Stradivarius.


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