Korean Music Association (KMA) 40th Autumn Concert
$30 / $50 / $75
Giuseppe Verdi — "Va, pensiero" from Nabucco
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Franz Lehár — "Lippen schweigen" from Die lustige Witwe ("The Merry Widow")
Claude Debussy — L'isle Joyeuse ("The Isle of Joy"), L. 106
Modest Mussorgsky — Pictures at an Exhibition
Giuseppe Verdi – “Va, pensiero” from Nabucco
The Maiden Selling Flowers
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto (3rd mvt.)
Franz Lehár – “Lippen schweigen” from Die lustige Witwe
Various – Korean Gagok
Claude Debussy – L’isle Joyeuse
Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition
This year, we are celebrating our 40th anniversary at our annual concert, its history starting from 1980. This year’s concert will begin with the Korean Music Association's Evergreen Chorus presenting choir numbers including “Va, pensiero” from the opera Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi and “The Maiden Selling Flowers,” which is a genre of Korean vocal classical music. After the choir, Lisa An, winner of the Grand Prize at KMA 18th Youth Music Competition, will perform a solo piece, the third movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Popular opera numbers and Korean Gagok will also be presented by KMA members Yujin Kim and Peter Jeon from LA. Their performance will include the duet “Lippen schweigen” by Franz Lehár from Die lustige Witwe.
The second half of the concert will be filled with music performed by world-renowned pianist Hai-Kyung Suh. She will perform Debussy's L’isle Joyeuse and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
Hai-Kyung Suh, pianist in Solo Recital in the second half
Dream Orchestra present internationally acclaimed pianist Hai-Kyung Suh in Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 at Irvine Barclay Theatre and Solo Recital debut at very intimate performing venue, Zipper Hall in downtown Los Angeles.
Short after winning the famous Busoni piano competition, she has performed at the most prestigious concert halls around the world. She has performed and toured with Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of London, London Royal Philharmonic, Tokyo National Symphony, the Berlin Symphony, Frankfurt Symphony, and other major orchestras in the world.
Hai-Kyung Suh has worked with the following major conductors: Charles Dutoit, Ivan Fischer, Paolo Olmi, Jens Nygaard, Reccardo Muti, Ditry Kitaenko, Pavel Kogan, Alaxander Dimitiev, Franz Wesler-Most, Zendek Macal, and more.
Among her many recordings, she is the only woman artist to record the complete Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky piano concertos under Deutsche Grammophon.
Some of the reviews include:
"Hair-raising virtuosity." (Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin)
"Resoundingly made the transition from prodigy to self-confident 'Old Master.'" (New York Concert Review)
Hai-Kyung Suh is a cancer survivor who underwent treatment for stage III breast cancer. She made her incredible comeback to the concert stage in 2008, and now we get to hear her at the peak of her artistry.
KMA, led by Muung Kim, is a nonprofit music organization with a history of over 39 continuous years of Autumn concerts, with the addition of Spring Open Concerts for the last seven years. Even though Korean classical music is less frequently performed in this Greater Seattle area, KMA’s high esteem for Korean classical music has made it possible to give a concert every year. KMA features a wide variety of classical music such as Gagok, Korean folk, opera, and so on. Aiming at healing and entertaining the Korean-American as well as a wider immigrant American community with their yearning for cultural connection, the concert will include popular Western classical music through contemporary Korean-American interpretation.
Alongside the concerts, KMA holds music competitions for young musicians and donates to causes such as Cornerstone Medical Services and victims in the sinking of MV Sewol. KMA also performs at various concerts in the community including Celebrate Asia, which is part of the Seattle Symphony’s New Music WORKS initiative.
For tickets, please call (253) 414-2000, (206) 313-1515, or (425) 679-1231.
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater)
4140 George Washington Ln NESeattle, WA 98105
United States
https://meanycenter.org/visit/venues/katharyn-alvord-gerlich-theater
(206) 543-4880