Program
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik String Quartet, K.525
I. Allegro
II. Romanza: Andante
III. Menuetto: Allegretto
IV. Finale: Allegro
Sammy Andonian,Violin • Jiwon Hong,Violin
Daniel Panner,Viola • Gloria Kim,Cello
Flute Quartet in D Major, K.285
I. Allegro
II. Adagio
III. Rondeau: Allegretto
Kah Yun Song,Flute • Sammy Andonian,Violin
Amy Dahm Huh,Viola • Gloria Kim,Cello
Gabriel’s Oboe from the Mission (1986) by Ennio Morricone
Alex Chai,Oboe • Yoo-Ran Eunice Park,Piano
Oboe Concerto in C Major, K.314
I. Allegro aperto
II. Adagio non troppo
III. Rondo: Allegretto
Alex Chai,Oboe • Yoo-Ran Eunice Park,Piano
Intermission
Viola Quintet in G minor, K.516
I. Allegro
II. Menuetto: Allegretto
III. Adagio ma non troppo
IV. Adagio – Allegro
Sammy Andonian,Violin • Jiwon Hong,Violin
Daniel Panner,Viola • Amy Dahm Huh,Viola • Gloria Kim,Cello
Daniel Panner enjoys a varied career as a performer and teacher. As violist of the Mendelssohn String Quartet, he concertized extensively throughout the United States and Israel. He has performed at numerous music festivals, including Marlboro, Ravinia, Tanglewood and Aspen, and he has collaborated with members of the Cleveland, Emerson, Guarneri and Juilliard String Quartets. As a member of the Whitman String Quartet, Mr. Panner received the 1998 Walter W.Naumburg Chamber Music Award and served as teaching assistant to the Juilliard String Quartet. Mr. Panner is co-chair of the string department of the Mannes College of Music, where he also teaches viola and chamber music, and he also serves on the faculty of Rutgers University. He has also taught at the Juilliard School, SUNY Stonybrook, Queens College, and the Jerusalem Music Center Summer Courses, and he has given master classes at such schools as Peabody, Hartt and the North Carolina School of the Arts. He has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Orchestra of St. Lukes; he has also toured with Musicians from Marlboro and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. As a guest artist, he has performed with the Juilliard String Quartet, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Daedelus String Quartet, the Flux String Quartet and the Moscow Conservatory Trio. Mr. Panner has been heard on National Public Radio “Performance Today” both as soloist and chamber musician. He has served as the principal violist of such orchestras as the New York City Opera and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. An active performer of new music, he is a member of Sequitur and the Locrian Ensemble and has performed as guest with such new-music groups as Speculum Musicae, the Da Capo Chamber Players, and Transit Circle; he has recorded solo viola works by Thea Musgrave and Victoria Bond, both for Albany Records. Mr. Panner studied with Jesse Levine at Yale University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in history. He continued his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with Joseph dePasquale and the Juilliard School with Samuel Rhodes.
Sammy Andonian, Praised by The Boston Musical Intelligencer for his “sonorous, sweet tone and masterful phrasing,” Armenian-American violinist Samuel Andonian hails originally from Massachusetts, and is a graduate of The Juilliard School and the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Catherine Cho and Donald Weilerstein. His formative mentors also include Natasha Brofsky, Kim Kashkashian, Merry Peckham, and Vivian Hornik Weilerstein. Currently, Andonian is a doctoral fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center as a student of Catherine Cho and Mark Steinberg. Andonian has been a soloist with orchestras such as the Boston Pops Orchestra, the New York Classical Players, the New England Philharmonic, and the Boston Youth Symphony. He has performed on NPR’s From the Top, at Juilliard’s Starling-DeLay Symposium, in recital for Music for Food and Music for Peace concert series, and at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s season-opening gala. As a chamber musician, Andonian has participated in NEC’s Honors Chamber Music program, has attended The Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Music Workshop, Kneisel Hall and Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals, and has performed with artists such as Kim Kashkashian, Donald Weilerstein, Roger Tapping, and members of the Brentano String Quartet. This summer, he will attend the Marlboro Music Festival. Andonian has been a concertmaster for the New York Classical Players, the Moritzburg Orchestra (in recording for Sony Classical), the NEC orchestras, and the Boston Youth
Symphony for three seasons. Important to his musical purpose has been Andonian’s work interning and performing with Music for Food, a musician-led initiative founded by violist Kim Kashkashian, which collects donations from its performances for organizations fighting food insecurity in their local community.
Dr. Amy Dahm Huh is a versatile performer, recognized as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborator with living composers, and cultural advocate bridging East and West. She has been featured in venues including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Spain Zaragoza Auditorium, Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Space, Fukuoka Acros Hall, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, Beijing Forbidden City Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Seoul Arts Center, the United Nations Headquarters, and the South Korean Embassy. Dahm collaborated with members of the 9time Grammy winning Emerson Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, Muir Quartet, and many prominent artists. She premiered Korean composers' works and collaborated with Korean artists during her chamber music tour in Edinburgh, Scotland, Marseille, France, Kronberg, Germany, and Antwerp, Belgium. She established Starry Duo violin-viola ensemble whose two albums were released worldwide in 2015 and 2020. Dahm recently gave lectures and masterclasses at various institutions, such as University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado State University, University of Central Florida, University of South Florida, Florida College, and St. Olaf College. Additionally, she was invited as a special lecturer by universities in Korea, including Hongik University, Konkuk University, Anyang University, Hannam University, Yonsei University, and Kookmin University, focusing on topics “How Music Connects Us Across Cultures,” “The Role of the Artist in Society and the Entrepreneurial Mindset,” “Digital Storytelling Through Music,” and “K-Pop and K-Classic from 1990s to Present.” Dr. Huh is an adjunct professor at Wagner College and serves as the music director of New York Artists Guild and EnoB. She holds degrees from Yonsei University, Mannes School of Music, Boston University under Prof. Michelle LaCourse and Stony Brook University's Doctoral program under the tutelage of Lawrence Dutton and Nicholas Cords.
Gloria Kim Cellist Gloria Kim has appeared in the US and across the globe as both a soloist and sought-after chamber musician. She has performed extensively in renowned concert venues in the New York metropolitan area such asMerkin Hall, Steinway Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall and has toured throughout Europe, China andKorea. She has also performed in many orchestras under renowned conductors, including a tour with AndrePrevin. Other highlights include performing at the UN, US Capitol, and for the US President, Bill Clinton. She has been invited to appear as faculty, concert artist, and to present master classes at the Pan Music Festival at the Seoul National University, Sarasota Music Festival, Verbier Music Festival, 4String Music Festival, TriumphMusic Festival, and Summit Music Festival amongst others. Her first album, “An Evening of Sentimental Classics,” includes the great works of Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Schumann with the Pianist Sehwan Park, and was released in April 2023 in Korea, sponsored by Huks Music. Born into a family of professional musicians, Gloria studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and Manhattan School of Music, where she had the privilege to study under Peter Wiley, David Soyer,
Joseph Silverstein, Gary Graffman, Felix Galimir, and the Guarneri String Quartet. She is a founding member of the BeneSori Quartet, member of the Trio Portinari, and on a faculty at the County College of Morris and the Summit Music Festival in New York. She is currently on the Elite Global Roster of performers at Eva Artistic Management.
Jiwon Hong Violinist and violist Jiwon Hong (formerly known as Jiwon April Kim) has received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School where she studied with Prof. Hyo Kang and Dr. I-Hao Lee. She has graduated from Stony Brook University where she received a doctorate degree studying under Emerson String Quartet, Jennifer Frautschi, and Nicholas Cords. An avid chamber musician and new music performer, Jiwon has appeared at venues including Carnegie Hall, Elbphilharmonie, Lincoln Center, Spectrum, and National Sawdust. Her world premiere performance of Roberto Sierra’s Duo Concertante for violin and viola as part of Summergarden series at the Museum of Modern Art in 2014 was reviewed by The New York Times and New York Classical Review as “high-energy” and “high quality.” During her studies at Juilliard, Jiwon has been mentored by Andre Emelianoff, Lewis Kaplan, and Joseph Kalichstein among many others. As a member of Juilliard Orchestra, she has worked with celebrated conductors such as the late James DePreist, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Alan Gilbert, and Robert Spano. She also has participated in masterclasses by James Ehnes, Garth Knox, Tokyo String Quartet, Anner Bylsma, and Joseph Silverstein at international summer music festivals. Jiwon has performed at Lucerne Festival Academy, Toronto Summer Music Festival, and New Music for Strings Festival as principal violist. In the past seasons, she has been invited to Banff Chamber Music Residency and Starry Nights Chamber Music Series.
Pianist Dr. Yoo-Ran Eunice Park, born in Seoul, Korea, made her debut with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 11 after winning the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra Competition by a unanimous vote. She has been a soloist with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Indiana University Student Orchestra, Amadeo Philharmonic Orchestra and the New York Symphony Orchestra. She has performed solo recitals throughout the world. Her awards included first prize in American Protégé International Competition, second prize in New York Artist International Competition, first prize in the Music Journal Competition, the MTNA Piano Concerto Competition, and Lansing Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. Recently Dr. Park was awarded New Jersey Senator’s Award and Grace Meng U. S Congress Award for her excellence in the field of Music and Art in the New York region. Dr. Park received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music from The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and received Doctor of Music from Indiana University Bloomington under tutelage of Prof. André Watts. Her dissertation, “Cyclic Elements in Schubert’s Last Three Piano Sonatas, D. 958, 959, and 960” was highly praised by the doctoral committee and was broadcast on NPR radio station, WJFF. From 2007 to 2012, Dr. Park served as an Associate Instructor in Piano at Indiana University Bloomington and currently resides in New York where she teaches, performs, and serves as a competition judge.
Flutist Kah Yun Song received her Master of Music Degree and Graduate Performance Degree from The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University studying with Marina Piccinini. During her music career at Peabody, she performed at the John F. Kennedy Center Hall in Washington DC with James Galway and Jeanne Galway. Also, she played in the Baltimore Symphony led by Marin Alsop. She played with numerous flutists such as Jeanne Baxtresser, Jim Walker, Karl Heinz Schutz, Paul David and more. As a soloist, Ms. Song has had recitals around the world and has won competitions including Mid Atlantic Flute Fair Young Artist and San Diego Young Artist Competition. As a dedicated teacher, students of Ms. Song have made an entrance audition to County Band and Regional Band. Also, her students won numerous competitions including New York Flute Club Competition, as well as students admitted to Julliard Pre-College, and she has received Certificate of Recognition as a teacher. Her students have performed at prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Currently, Ms. Song is flute faculty at New York Music School and JCC Thurnauer School of Music while pursuing Doctor of Musical Arts at Mason Gross Music Arts of Rutgers University studying with Bart Feller.
Alec Chai is an oboist from Colorado Springs, CO. As a recent graduate of the Yale School of Music, Alec studied with Stephen Taylor, where he was named a winner of the Yale School of Music Chamber Music Society Competition as well as a recipient of the YSM Alumni Association Prize. Alec also attended Yale University for his undergraduate studies, where he received a B.S. in Chemistry with distinction along with several university-wide awards for his contributions to the arts. In his freshman year, he became just the third oboist to be chosen as winner of the William Waite Concerto Competition and performed Bohuslav Martinü’s Oboe Concerto with the Yale Symphony Orchestra. He was previously a winner of YoungArts and represents Yamaha USA as a Yamaha Young Performing Artist. Outside of music, Alec also has a love for sports and the outdoors, and enjoys hiking, fitness, snowboarding, and basketball.
** NYAG has launched a young artist series to support gifted young players by providing opportunities to perform at the Lincoln Center, sponsored by the New York Artists Guild. Alec Chai has been selected as the first young artist of the season. To audition for future seasons, apply at the link below. x