ΗΜΕΡΟΜΗΝΙΑ
09 Ιουλίου,
21:30
ΧΩΡΟΣ
Πνευματικό Κέντρο
ΜΟΥΣΙΚΟΣ
Soyeon Kate Lee & Ran Dank
ΠΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑ
Witold Lutoslawski
Variations on a Theme by
Paganini
Frederic Chopin
Polonaise in c-sharp
minor, op. 26 no. 1
Leoš Janáček
Sonata
1.X.1905 in e-flat minor
a.
Foreboding
b.
Death
Igor Stravinsky
Firebird for
Piano Solo
F. Chopin
Polonaise in A-flat major, "Heroic" op.
53
------Intermission----------
Maurice Ravel
La Valse
for Two Pianos
Percy Grainger/
George Gershwin
Fantasy for Two Pianos
on "Porgy and Bess"
ΒΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΟ
Soyeon Kate Lee
First prize winner of the prestigious 2010 Naumburg
International Piano Competition, Korean- American pianist Soyeon
Kate Lee has already been hailed by The New York Times as a pianist
with "a huge, richly varied sound, a lively imagination and a firm
sense of style," while The Washington Post has lauded her for her
"stunning command of the keyboard."
Ms. Lee's 2012/13 season highlights include performances at
New York's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Rose Studio, and the
Kaplan Penthouse, as well as Boston's Gardner Museum as a member of
the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society Two. She
collaborates this season with Daedalus and Brentano String
Quartets, violinist Ani Kavafian, cellist Timothy Eddy, and members
of the Chiara String Quartet, among others, and appears in recital
at the Rhode Island College Performing Arts Series, Elon
University, Pittsburg State University, Portland Ovation Series,
Ridotto Music Festival, Music Mountain, and Sheldon Friends of
Chamber Music. In celebration of Benjamin Britten's
centennial, Ms. Lee performs the less traversed Britten Piano
Concerto with the Adelphi University Symphony Orchestra, conducted
by Christopher Lyndon-Gee. An active Naxos recording artist,
her third CD featuring Liszt opera transcriptions will be released
this season and she will return to the Glenn Gould Studio in
Toronto for a two- CD recording of Scriabin's piano works in
April.
Ms. Lee has been rapturously received as guest soloist with
The Cleveland Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, as well
as the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, San Diego Symphony,
symphony orchestras of Columbus, Bangor, Bozeman, Boca Raton,
Wyoming, Bozeman, Cheyenne, Napa Valley, Scottsdale, Abilene,
Naples, Santa Fe, and Shreveport in the United States; the Daejeon
Philharmonic Orchestra (South Korea), Ulsan Symphony Orchestra
(South Korea), Orquesta de Valencia (Spain,) and the Orquesta
Sinfónica Nacional (Dominican Republic), including performances
under the batons of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jahja Ling, Jorge
Mester, and Otto-Werner Mueller.
Recent recital appearances include New York City programs at
Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert
Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Art's Alice Tully Hall,
Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
Cleveland's Severance Hall, the Ravinia Festival's "Rising Stars"
series, Auditorio de Musica de Nacional in Madrid - part of a
13-city tour of Spain, tour of the Hawaiian Islands, Krannert
Center, and Finland's Maanta Music Festival.
Soyeon Kate Lee was featured on the January 2006 cover of
SYMPHONY magazine's annual "Emerging Artists" issue and in the 2008
edition of Musical America's "More Thrills of Discovery." Her debut
CD on the Naxos label, featuring sonatas of Scarlatti, was released
in February 2007 to critical acclaim. KOCH International
Classics (E1) released her second album in April 2009, for which
she was awarded the 2009 Young Artist Award from the Classical
Recording Foundation.
Ms. Lee earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees, and the
Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School. While at Juilliard,
she won every award granted to a pianist including the Rachmaninoff
Concerto Competition, two consecutive Gina Bachauer Scholarship
Competitions, Arthur Rubinstein Prize, Susan Rose Career Grant, and
the William Petschek Piano Debut Award.
Winner of the 2004 Concert Artists Guild International
Competition, as well as the Second and Mozart prizes of the
Cleveland International Piano Competition and the Bronze Medal of
the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition in
Spain, she has worked extensively with Robert McDonald and Jerome
Lowenthal at Juilliard, and is currently pursuing her Doctoral
studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
with Ursula Oppens and Richard Goode. Ms. Lee is a Steinway
Artist.
Ran Dank
Pianist Ran Dank deploys his brilliant technique with
astonishing energy, intellect and intensity, captivating audiences
and critics alike. In the past season of New York concerts alone,
he has performed Beethoven sonatas at Merkin Hall, Prokofiev's
Concerto No. 2 in his debut with the Orchestra of St. Luke's at
Alice Tully Hall, and gained critical acclaim for his "vivacious
playing" (The New York Times) of the Tobias Picker Concerto at
Columbia University's Miller Theatre and for his performance of
Ravel's piano trio at the Chelsea Music Festival for "the sweep and
fire of his playing" (The New York Times).
Current season highlights include a recital debut at the
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and appearances at
Portland Ovations, Merrick-Bellmore Community Concert Association,
Missouri State University, Tannery Pond Concerts, the University at
Buffalo, and Pro Arte Musical in Puerto Rico. Dank also performs in
the inaugural season of the Young Concert Artists ensemble miXt,
with performances at New York City's Merkin Hall, Washington D.C.'s
Kennedy Center, and elsewhere in the U.S.
Mr. Dank has appeared as soloist with the Phoenix, Ann Arbor,
Hilton Head, and Pensacola symphonies, the Cleveland Orchestra as a
laureate of the Cleveland International Competition, as well as the
Orquesta de Valencia in Spain, among others; he has been presented
by the Washington Performing Arts Society's prestigious Hayes Piano
Series at the Kennedy Center, the Chopin Festival in Warsaw,
Finland's Mänttä Festival where his all-Liszt recital was broadcast
on Finnish National Radio; and performed as a chamber musician at
YCA's Tokyo Festival and the Seattle and Montreal chamber music
festivals. Recipient of the Sander Buchman Memorial First Prize of
the 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Mr. Dank
made his New York debut in the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Concert.
At the Auditions, he was also honored with the John Browning
Memorial Prize, the Slomovic Orchestra Soloist Prize, the Albany
Symphony Prize, the Embassy Series Prize for a concert in
Washington DC, and the Saint Vincent College Bronder Prize for
Piano.
In his native Israel, Mr. Dank has been invited as soloist
with the symphony orchestras of Jerusalem, Rishon Lezion, Haifa and
Raanana, as well as the Israel Festival in Jerusalem, and most
recently, at the Israel Conservatory of Music in a recital
celebrating Debussy's 150th anniversary.
In addition to First Prize at the Hilton Head International
Piano Competition, Mr. Dank is a laureate of the Naumburg Piano
Competition and the Sydney International Piano Competition. Mr.
Dank is the recipient of grants from the Arthur Foundation and the
America-Israel Cultural Foundation.
Mr. Dank earned his Bachelor's degree from the Rubin Academy
of Music at Tel Aviv University, where he studied with Emanuel
Krasovsky, and received his Master's degree from the Juilliard
School where he worked with Emanuel Ax and Joseph Kalichstein and
Juilliard's Artist Diploma, under Robert McDonald. He is currently
pursuing his Doctorate of Musical Arts with Ursula Oppens and
Richard Goode at the Graduate Center of the City University of New
York as a chancellor's fellow.