Robert Blocker, Dean
faculty artist series
Kyung Yu, violin with Melissa Rose, piano
Sunday, March 4, 2018 • 3 pm Morse Recital Hall
Faculty Artist Series
Kyung Yu, violin Melissa Rose piano
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827
Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30, No. 2 I. Allegro con brio II. Adagio cantabile III. Scherzo. Allegro — Trio IV. Finale — Allegro
Sergei Prokofiev 1891–1953
Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 I. Andante assai II. Allegro brusco III. Andante IV. Allegrissimo — Andante assai, come prima intermission
Erich Wolfgang Korngold 1897–1957
Incidental Music from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11 I. The Maiden in the Bridal Chamber II. Dogberry and Verges. March of the Watch III. Scene in the Garden IV. Masquerade. Hornpipe
Camille Saint-Saëns 1835–1921
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
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Artist Profiles
Kyung Yu, violin
Melissa Rose, piano
Violinist Kyung Yu holds Bachelor of Pianist Melissa Rose has a 30-year career Music and Master of Music Degrees from partnering with instrumentalists and the Juilliard School and a Master of singers in concerts throughout the United Music Degree from the Yale School of States and at venues in Argentina, Malta, Music. She has studied with Dorothy Santorini, and Russia. She’s a soughtDeLay, Paul Kantor, and Emanuel Zetlin. after collaborative pianist whom critics Ms. Yu was concertmaster of the New describe as “powerfully musical” (Kansas Haven Symphony Orchestra from 1988 City Star) and “an exceptional partner” until 1999. She has appeared as a soloist (kcmetropolis.org). Rose has performed with the Seattle Symphony, the New for twenty-three years with the Summerfest Haven Symphony Orchestra, and the Chamber Music Series in Kansas City. In Yale Philharmonia, and has performed Nashville she is a member of ALIAS numerous recitals in New York City, Chamber Ensemble and performs freSeattle, Aspen, and throughout Korea. quently with the Nashville Ballet. She has She made her New York debut in Weill recorded and edited arrangements for Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as a winner viola/piano of the Tonadillas by Granados of the Artists International Competition. (ViolaSound), one of which was included Ms. Yu has taught at the Aspen Music in the 2017 Grammy-nominated music Festival and was an assistant to Dorothy film, The Music of Strangers. Her chamber DeLay in the Juilliard pre-college division. music recordings are on the Naxos, Centaur, She served on the Fulbright Scholarship Blue Griffin, Delos, Good Child Music, Screening Committee for Strings from and Navona Records labels. As a pianist 1999 to 2002. Ms. Yu has taught violin keenly interested in performing contemstudents at Lehigh University and porary music, Rose has participated in Swarthmore College. She has served on numerous premieres and residencies with the faculty at the Yale School of Music leading American composers. Her most since 1988. Ms. Yu performs extensively recent chamber music recordings feature with pianist Elizabeth Sawyer Parisot, two works by Paul Moravec: Tempest with whom she has recorded the Strauss Fantasy with ALIAS (Delos 2016) and a and Prokofiev sonatas, and has appeared premiere of the Trio with Leslie Norton, on Albany Records in The Music of Ezra horn, and Jared Hauser, oboe (forthcoming Laderman. She performed the Beethoven on Good Child Music). She received a Triple Concerto with Elizabeth Parisot, Master of Music Degree from the Yale cellist Ole Akahoshi, and the Yale School of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Symphony Orchestra under the direction Arts Degree in collaborative piano from of Shinik Hahm. With Elizabeth Parisot, the University of Michigan. At Vanderbilt Ms. Yu has played numerous recitals University, she teaches collaborative throughout Connecticut and Pennsylvania, pianists, coaches chamber music, and is and has performed to acclaim on concert associate dean of the collegiate program tours of Korea and Italy. at the Blair School of Music.
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