Kyung Yu, violin & Elizabeth Parisot, piano

Kyung Yu violin

& Elizabeth Parisot piano

faculty artist series Music of Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and Bartรณk November 6, 2013 โ ข Morse Recital Hall

Robert Blocker, Dean

Faculty Artist Series

kyung yu & elizabeth parisot November 6, 2013 • Morse Recital Hall

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770—1827

Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30, No. 3 I. Allegro assai II. Tempo di minuetto,

ma molto moderato e grazioso III. Allegro vivace

Johannes Brahms 1833—1897

Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78 I. Vivace ma non troppo II. Adagio – Più andante – Adagio III. Allegro molto moderato

intermission

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840—1893

Sérénade Mélancolique, Op. 26

Béla Bartók 1881—1945

Rhapsody No. 1, Sz. 87 I. Lassú: Moderato II. Friss: Allegretto moderato

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Artist Profiles

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 at 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 degree 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.

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