Kyung Yu, violin with
Melissa Rose, piano
faculty artist series March 5, 2016 • Morse Recital Hall
Robert Blocker, Dean
Faculty Artist Series
Kyung Yu, violin with Melissa Rose, piano Saturday, March 5, 2016 • 7:30 pm • Morse Recital Hall Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791
Violin Sonata No. 26 in B-flat major, K. 378/317d I. Allegro moderato II. Andantino sostenuto e cantabile III. Rondo. Allegro
Johannes Brahms 1833–1897
Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Un poco presto e con sentimento IV. Presto agitato intermission
Maurice Ravel 1875–1937
Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, M. 77 I. Allegretto II. Blues. Moderato III. Perpetuum mobile. Allegro
Ravel
Tzigane, M. 76
Artist Profiles
Kyung Yu, violin
Melissa Rose, 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.
Pianist Melissa Rose has a 30-year career partnering with instrumentalists and singers in concerts throughout the United States and abroad. She is a sought-after collaborative pianist whom critics describe as “powerfully musical” (Kansas City Star) and “an exceptional partner” (kcmetropolis. org). A member of Alias Chamber Ensemble in Nashville, she recently completed her twenty-second season with Summerfest Chamber Music in Kansas City. As a pianist keenly interested in performing contemporary music, Rose has participated in numerous premieres and residencies with leading American composers. Her most recent chamber music recordings feature two works by Paul Moravec: Tempest Fantasy on Amorisms (Delos) and a premiere of the Trio for piano, oboe, and horn (forthcoming). She is an alumna of the Yale School of Music (Master of Music degree, 1985) and received the D.M.A. in collaborative piano from the University of Michigan. Currently she is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Piano at the Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music.
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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