Junior Recital
Sonny Yoo, piano
From the studio of Dr. Bethany Mamola
Sunday, April 6, 2025, 3:30 p.m.
Performing Arts Studio Department of Music
1804 N. Decatur Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30322
Please turn off phones and all electronic devices. Photography, recording, or digital capture of this concert is not permitted.
Intorno all’idol mio
Antonio Cesti from Orontea (1623–1669) with Charles Ascone, double bass
Vado, ma dove? Oh Dei!, K.583
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Porgi, amor, qualche ristoro (1756–1791) from Le Nozze di Figaro
S’altro che lacrime from La clemenza di Tito
Selections from 8 Gedichte aus “Letzte Blätter”, op. 10
Richard Strauss
IV. Die Georgine (1864–1949)
VIII. Allerseelen
Les filles de Cadix Léo Delibes (1836–1891)
—Intermission—
Three Browning Songs, op. 44
Amy Beach
I. The Year’s at the Spring (1867–1944)
II. Ah, Love, but a day
III. I Send My Heart Up To Thee
Nuit d’étoiles
Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Oh! Quand je dors Franz Liszt (1811–1886)
Green Finch and Linnet Bird
Stephen Sondheim from Sweeney Todd (1930–2021)
The Glamorous Life from A Little Night Music
Quando m’en vo Giacomo Puccini from La Bohéme (1858–1924)
This recital is presented by the Department of Music at Emory University. music.emory.edu
Anushka Basu, soprano, (‘26C) is a junior at Emory University from the San Francisco Bay Area, pursuing a double major in Vocal Performance and Quantitative Social Science: Data Science. She has been studying classical singing for nine years and currently studies voice under Dr. Bethany Mamola. Before attending Emory, she participated in programs such as the Washington National Opera Institute, the Metropolitan Opera Guild High School Opera Singers Intensive, and SongFest at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She has won awards in various competitions, including KMMC & Trinity Laban Conservatoire Art Song Festival, the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and the Pacific Musical Society & Foundation. Last summer, she performed her first lead role as Bastienne in Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne in Salzburg, Austria.
At Emory, Anushka is a finalist in the 2025 Emory Concerto and Aria Competition. She has performed in master classes with esteemed artists such as Jake Heggie, Mary Saunders Barton, and Ann Baltz. In addition to singing, she has played piano for sixteen years and has been involved in various Emory ensembles, including Stageworks, Collaborative Piano, and University Chorus. She also enjoys performing at campus events, including the annual Hocofest and the Adhoc Showcase. Anushka currently serves as Vice President of Programming for Delta Phi Epsilon and as an Event Coordinator for Music for Change. In her free time, she enjoys biking, reading, walking around Lullwater, and spending time with her guinea pig, Pianetta - named after her love for piano and operettas.
Seung Hyun (“Sonny”) Yoo was born in Gumi, South Korea. He started the piano at the age of 5, and soon wrote his first composition at 7, an interest that would grow to be a lifetime passion. His work as a pianist is also informed by his early composition studies. He has frequently performed his own piano compositions and duo sonatas, and often writes his own cadenzas for Mozart concerti. His solo repertoire features numerous contemporary works. He was invited to the 2018 edition of American Liszt Society festival to participate in the performance of complete piano etudes by Maurice Ohana and has recently won the First Place in Best Interpretation of the Winning Ohio Call Composition at the Ohio Liszt International Piano Competition with his performance of Sound Echoes by Dolores White.
Winner of the University of Georgia Concerto Competition, Sonny performed Brahms’s monumental Second Concerto with the UGA Symphony Orchestra. Other recent solo highlights include a showcase at Steinway Hall in New York City performing 20th-century piano etudes ranging from Debussy to Lowell Liebermann, a double appearance as the soloist for Rachmaninoff’s Second Concerto with the Stow Symphony Orchestra and a performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14, K. 449 with string quartet which also featured his own cadenza.
Sonny holds a bachelor’s degree in music composition and two master’s degrees in composition and piano where he studied piano with Dr. Donna Lee and composition with Dr. Frank Wiley. He is on his track to receive his doctorate in piano, with two minors, in collaborative piano and music theory respectively, from University of Georgia, studying under Dr. Liza Stepanova. He currently works as a Piano Artist Affiliate at Emory University where he teaches piano and performs on a regular basis.
Bassist Charles Ascone (‘26C) is a junior at Emory University double majoring in Computer Science and Music Performance. He studies double bass under Michael Kurth.
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