Robert Blocker, Dean
faculty artist series
Kyung Yu violin with Melissa Rose, piano
Morse Recital Hall March 4, 2017 • Saturday at 7:30 pm
Faculty Artist Series
Kyung Yu, violin with
Melissa Rose, piano March 4, 2017 • Morse Recital Hall
Claude Debussy 1862–1918
Sonata in G minor for violin and piano, L. 140 I. Allegro vivo II. Intermède. Fantasque et léger III. Finale. Très animé
Samuel Barber 1910–1981
Canzone (Elegy), Op. 38a
George Gershwin 1898–1937 trans. Jascha Heifetz
Three Preludes (1926) I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso II. Andante com moto e poco rubato III. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso intermission
John Corigliano b. 1938
Sonata for violin and piano (1963) I. Allegro II. Andantino III. Lento IV. Allegro
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Artist Profiles
Kyung Yu, violin Violinist Kyung Yu holds bachelor of music 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 Orchestra, and the Yale Philharmonia, and has performed numerous recitals in New York City, Seattle, Aspen, and throughout Korea. She made her New York debut 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 in 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 the Yale School of Music since 1988. Ms. Yu performs extensively with pianist Elizabeth Sawyer Parisot, with whom she has recorded the Strauss and Prokofiev sonatas, and has 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 on concert tours of Korea and Italy. Melissa Rose, piano Pianist Melissa Rose has a thirty-year career partnering with instrumentalists and singers in concerts throughout the United States and abroad. She is a soughtafter collaborative pianist whom critics describe as “powerfully musical” (Kansas City Star) and “an exceptional partner” (kcmetropolis.org). A member of the 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 a doctor of musical arts in collaborative piano from the University of Michigan. She serves as associate dean and associate professor of piano at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.
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