Beethoven String Trios
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2026 | 7:30 PM
St. Paul’s Cathedral (map)
Prepare to be captivated by an extraordinary weekend of concerts featuring violinist Soovin Kim, violist Jessica Bodner, and cellist Marcy Rosen as they bring to life the full cycle of Beethoven’s celebrated Strings Trios!
In Partnership with
SUNDAY, JANUARY 11, 2026 | 4:00 PM
TICKETS
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Weekend Pass (Admission to BOTH concerts)
General Admission: $90
Music Educator: $45
Under-30: $45
Students: $10
Single Tickets
General Admission: $49
Music Educator: $25
Under-30: $25
Students: $5
PROGRAM
Friday, January 9, 2026 | 7:30 PM
Doors at 7 PM
BEETHOVEN Serenade in D Major, Op.8
BEETHOVEN String Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 3
Sunday, January 11, 2026 | 4 PM
Doors at 3 PM
BEETHOVEN String Trio in C Minor, Op. 9 No. 3
BEETHOVEN String Trio in D Major, Op. 9 No. 2
BEETHOVEN String Trio in G Major, Op. 9 No. 1
ARTISTS
Soovin Kim
LCCMF founder and Artistic Director Soovin Kim is an exciting violinist who built on the early successes of his prize-winning years to emerge as a mature and communicative artist. He enjoys a broad musical career regularly performing Bach sonatas and Paganini caprices for solo violin, sonatas for violin and piano ranging from Beethoven to Ives, and new world-premiere works almost every season. When he was 20 years old Mr. Kim captured first prize at the Paganini International Violin Competition, and subsequently received the Henryk Szeryng Career Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. He performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the San Francisco, Dallas, Baltimore, and Indianapolis Symphonies as well as major orchestras in Paris, Rome, Prague, Moscow, and Seoul. Among his many commercial recordings are his “thrillingly triumphant” (Classic FM Magazine) disc of Paganini’s demanding 24 Caprices. He immersed himself in the string quartet literature for 20 years as the 1st violinist of the Johannes Quartet, and now performs in the Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio with pianist Gloria Chien and cellist Paul Watkins.
Soovin Kim is the founder and artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival (LCCMF) in Burlington, Vermont. The University of Vermont recognized his contributions to the community by bestowing an honorary doctorate upon him in 2015. Mr. Kim devotes much of his time to his passion for teaching at the New England Conservatory and the Yale School of Music.
Violin
Jessica Bodner
Jessica Bodner, described by The New York Times as a “soulful soloist,” is the violist of the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet. A native of Houston, TX, Jessica began her musical studies on the violin at the age of two, then switched to the viola at the age of twelve because of her love of the deeper sonority.
Ms. Bodner has recently appeared at venues such as Carnegie Hall, 92nd Street Y, Library of Congress, Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Wigmore Hall (London), Musikverein (Vienna), Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and Seoul Arts Center, and has appeared at festivals including Chamber Music Northwest, Chamberfest Cleveland, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, Yellow Barn, Perigord Noir in France, Monte Carlo Spring Arts Festival, San Miguel de Allende, Istanbul’s Cemal Recit Rey, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Hitzacker, and Heidelberg String Quartet Festival. As a member of the Parker Quartet, she has recorded for ECM, Zig-Zag Territoires, Nimbus, and Naxos.
Recent collaborators include mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, clarinetists Charles Neidich and Jörg Widmann, pianists Menahem Pressler, Shai Wosner, Gloria Chien, and Orion Weiss, violinists Soovin Kim and Donald Weilerstein, violists Kim Kashkashian and Roger Tapping, cellists Deborah Pae, Marcy Rosen, Natasha Brofsky, and Paul Katz, and percussionist Ian Rosenbaum.
Jessica is a faculty member of Harvard University’s Department of Music as Professor of the Practice in conjunction with the Parker Quartet’s appointment as Blodgett Quartet-in-Residence. She has held visiting faculty positions at the New England Conservatory and Longy School of Music, served as faculty at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and Yellow Barn Festival, and has given masterclasses at institutions such as Eastman School of Music, San Francisco Conservatory, Amherst College, University of Minnesota, and at the El Sistema program in Venezuela.
Outside of music, Jessica enjoys cooking, running, practicing yoga, and hiking with her husband, violinist Daniel Chong, their son, Cole, and their vizsla, Bodie.
Viola
Marcy Rosen
Marcy Rosen has established herself as one of the most important and respected artists of our day. She has performed in recital and with orchestras throughout Canada, Japan, Europe, South America, and all fifty United States. Sought after for her riveting masterclasses, she has been a guest of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, the New England Conservatory, the San Francisco Conservatory, the Central Conservatory in China, the Seoul Arts Center in Korea, and the Cartagena International Music Festival in Colombia.
Ms. Rosen has collaborated with the world’s finest musicians and has been a guest artist with the top String Quartets. She was a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet, with which she was Artist-in-Residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts and served as Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University. Since first attending the Marlboro Festival in 1975, she has taken part in 25 “Musicians from Marlboro” tours and has performed in concerts celebrating its 40th, 50th, and 60th anniversaries.
Since 1986, Ms. Rosen has been Artistic Director of Chesapeake Chamber Music in Maryland which houses the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival, an International Chamber Music Competition, and YouthReach, an educational program that provides free lessons to beginning string players. In 2024, she was appointed Artistic Director of the Evnin Rising Stars program at the Caramoor Center for the Arts.
A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Ms. Rosen is currently professor of cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and serves as Artistic Director of Chamber Music Live.