Faculty Artist Series: Yu-Parisot Duo

Kyung Hak Yu, violin Elizabeth Parisot, piano with

Ole Akahoshi, cello march 26, 2010 Faculty Artist Series music of Mozart Franck Mendelssohn

Robert Blocker, Dean

march 26, 2010 ¡ 8 pm Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

Kyung Hak Yu, violin Elizabeth Parisot, piano with Ole Akahoshi, cello Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata in B-flat major, K. 454 1756-1791 Largo – Allegro Andante Allegretto

CĂŠsar Franck 1822-1890

Violin Sonata in A major Allegretto ben moderato Allegro Ben moderato Allegretto poco mosso

Intermission

Felix Mendelssohn 1809-1847

Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49 Molto allegro e agitato Andante con moto tranquillo Scherzo: Leggerio e vivace Finale: Allegro assai appassionato

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elizabeth parisot piano

Elizabeth Parisot, pianist, received her DMA from the Yale School of Music in 1973, and has served on the faculty of the School since 1977.

She has appeared in solo and chamber music concerts throughout the world, performing at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center and the National Gallery in Washington, DC, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Hispanic Institute in Madrid, and the Jerusalem Music Center.

With her husband, Brazilian cellist Aldo Parisot, she has toured extensively, joining him in sonata performances as well as in chamber music with other renowned artists. She served as coordinator and performing artist at the Aldo Parisot International Competitions and Courses in Brazil for several years and has also been a guest artist at the International Music Institute in Santander, Spain, the Banff Festival of the Arts, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

Other tours have included concerts in Korea and Italy with violinist Kyung Hak Yu and performances with faculty colleagues Erick Friedman and Aldo Parisot in Taiwan. She has also performed recently with Yo-Yo Ma, Janos Starker, and Ralph Kirshbaum. A collabarative artist with cellists for many years in concerts,

master classes, and competitions worldwide, Ms. Parisot was awarded the title Grande Dame du Violoncelle in 2007 by the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center at Indiana University “in recognition of her universal contributions to the art of cello playing and cellists.�

Elizabeth Parisot has numerous recordings to her credit, including the two Brahms Sonatas for Cello and Piano with her husband Aldo Parisot (Musical Heritage Society); music by Leo Ornstein and Alexei Haieff for cello and piano with Italo Babini (Serenus); Cellists from Yale issued in Brazil (Phonodisc); The Yale Cellos of Aldo Parisot and The Yale Cellos Play Favorites (Delos); three CDs with Queen Elizabeth Competition winner Nai-Yuan Hu; a disc with cellist Carol Ou; music by Ezra Laderman with violinists Erick Friedman and Kyung Hak Yu and cellist Pansy Chang (Albany Records); and works by Strauss and Prokofiev with Kyung Hak Yu.

kyung hak yu violin

Ms. Yu performs extensively with pianist Elizabeth Sawyer Parisot, with whom she has recorded the Strauss and Prokofiev sonatas, and appeared on The Music of Ezra Laderman on Albany Records. She performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Elizabeth Parisot and cellist Ole Akahoshi with the Yale Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Shinik Hahm.

She has appeared as a soloist with the Seattle With Elizabeth Parisot, Ms. Yu has played Symphony, the New Haven Symphony numerous recitals throughout Connecticut and Orchestra, and the Yale Philharmonia, and has Pennsylvania, and has performed to acclaim in performed numerous recitals in New York concert tours of Korea and Italy.

City, Seattle, Aspen, and throughout Korea.

She gave her New York debut concert in Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall as a winner of the Artists International Competition.

Kyung Hak Yu holds both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School and a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music. She has studied with Dorothy DeLay, Paul Kantor, and the late Emanuel Zetlin. Ms. Yu was concertmaster of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra from 1988 until 1999.

Ms. Yu has taught at the Aspen Music Festival and was an assistant to Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard pre-college division. She served on the Fulbright Scholarship Screening Committee for Strings from 1999 to 2002. Ms. Yu has taught violin students at Lehigh University and Swarthmore College and has served on the faculty at Yale since 1988.

ole akahoshi cello

Recently hailed by the Los Angeles Times for his “technical solidity, perfect intonation, and large edgeless tone of buttered-rum quality,” cellist Ole Akahoshi from Germany has concertized on four continents in recitals as well as soloist with orchestras, including the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin and Symphonisches Orchester Berlin. Winner of numerous competitions including the Concertino Praga and Jugend Musiziert, Mr. Akahoshi has had performances featured on cnn, npr, wqxr, Korean Broadcasting Station, and several German stations. He is a recipient of the fellowship award from Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi. Mr. Akahoshi has performed in Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Kennedy Center, Suntory Hall and Tsuda Hall (Tokyo), Seoul Arts Center (Korea), Wigmore Hall (London), and Berliner Philharmonie. He has recorded on the Albany, New World Records, CRI, Calliope, Bridge, and Naxos labels.

Mr. Akahoshi has collaborated with artists such as the Tokyo String Quartet, Sarah Chang, Erick Friedman, Syoko Aki, Ani Kavafian, Cho-Liang Lin, Gil Shaham, Kyung Yu, Chee-Yun, Jesse Levine, Edgar Meyer, Boris Berman, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Garrick Ohlsson, Frank Morelli, David

Shifrin, Ransom Wilson, Myung Wha Chung, Aldo Parisot, and Janos Starker. He has served as faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Camp Encore/Coda, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Festival des Artes de Itu Brazil, and the Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea, where he gives classes every summer.

He has served as a judge of numerous competitions.

At age eleven Mr. Akahoshi was the youngest student to be accepted by Pierre Fournier. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Juilliard and master’s degree from Yale, where he studied with Aldo Parisot. He received the Artist Diploma from Indiana University, where he studied with Janos Starker. Mr. Akahoshi has served as teaching assistant for both Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker; his other mentors were Wolfgang Boettcher and Georg Donderer.

Mr. Akahoshi is the principal cellist of the Sejong Soloists in New York. He has been a member of Seiji Ozawa’s Saito Kinen Orchestra since 1998 and the Tokyo Nomori Opera. Mr. Akahoshi is on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music and the Yale School of Music.

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