Kyung Yu, violin & Elizabeth Parisot, piano

fa culty a rtis t s eri es

Kyung Yu violin

Elizabeth Parisot piano

morse recital hall March 3, 2013 • Sunday at 8 pm Music by Bach, Strauss, Prokofiev, and Saint-SaÍns

Robert Blocker, Dean

k yu ng yu & el iza beth par i sot March 3, 2013 • Sprague Memorial Hall • Faculty Artist Series

Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750

Violin Sonata Nº. 3 in E major, BWV 1016 I. Adagio II. Allegro III. Adagio ma non tanto IV. Allegro

Richard Strauss 1864–1949

Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18 I. Allegro ma non troppo II. Improvisation: Andante cantabile III. Finale: Andante – Allegro

intermission

Sergei Prokofiev 1891–1953

Violin Sonata Nº. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 I. Andante Assai II. Allegro brusco III. Andante IV. Alegrissimo – Andante assai, come prima

Camille Saint-Saëns 1835–1921

Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28

As a courtesy to the performers and audience, turn off cell phones and pagers. Please do not leave the hall during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is prohibited.

About the Artists

kyung yu, violin

elizabeth parisot, piano

Violinist Kyung Yu holds 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 Professor Emanuel Zetlin. Ms. Yu was concertmaster of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra from 1988 until 1999. She has appeared as a soloist with the Seattle Symphony, the New Haven Symphony, and Yale Philharmonia orchestras, and has performed numerous recitals in New York 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. 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 in Pennsylvania. She has served on the faculty at Yale since 1988.

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, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, the National Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Hispanic Institute in Madrid, and the Jerusalem Music Center.

With her husband, cellist Aldo Parisot, she has toured extensively. She served as coordinator and performing artist at the Aldo Parisot International Competitions and Courses in Brazil for several years and has been a guest artist at the International Music Institute in Santander, Spain, the Banff Festival of the Arts, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Tours have included concerts in Korea and Italy with violinist Kyung Yu and in Taiwan with Erick Friedman and Aldo Parisot. She has also performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Janos Starker, and Ralph Kirshbaum. A collaborative artist with cellists for many years, Ms. Parisot was awarded the title “Grande Dame du Violoncelle� in 2007 by the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center at Indiana University. Elizabeth Parisot has numerous recordings to her credit, including the Brahms cello sonatas with Aldo Parisot (Musical Heritage Society); music by Leo Ornstein and Alexei Haieff 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 Nai-Yuan Hu; music by Ezra Laderman with Erick Friedman, Kyung Yu, and Pansy Chang (Albany Records); and works by Strauss and Prokofiev with Kyung Yu.

Ms. Yu performs extensively with pianist Elizabeth Sawyer Parisot, with whom she has recorded the Strauss and Prokofiev sonatas, and appeared on Albany Records in The Music of Ezra Laderman. She performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Elizabeth Parisot and cellist Ole Akahoshi with the Yale Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Shinik Hahm. With Elizabeth Parisot, Ms. Yu has played numerous recitals throughout Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and has performed to acclaim in concert tours of Korea and Italy.

Upcoming Events

Bach Collegium Japan

Melvin Chen, piano

march 3

march 27

Woolsey Hall | Sun | 5 pm Bach Motets. Masaaki Suzuki, conductor.

Presented by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. All proceeds will benefit ongoing earthquake relief efforts in Japan.

Tickets $20, Students $10

Morse Recital Hall | Wed | 8 pm Horowitz Piano Series Melvin Chen performs Beethoven’s Bagatelles, Op. 126; music by Joan Tower; and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Tickets $12–22, Students $6–9

Paul Lewis, piano

Brahms: Complete Piano Quartets

march 6

april 2

Morse Recital Hall | Wed | 8 pm Horowitz Piano Series Paul Lewis, “arguably the finest Schubert interpreter of his generation” (Gramophone), performs the three last sonatas by Franz Schubert.

Tickets $12–22, Students $6–9

Morse Recital Hall | Tue | 8 pm Oneppo Chamber Music Series Boris Berman, piano; Julie Eskar, violin; Ettore Causa, viola; and Clive Greensmith, cello, perform the complete piano quartets

by Brahms: No. 1 in G minor, No. 2 in A major, and No. 3 in C minor.

Free Admission

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Robert Blocker, Dean

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