Music Events
Faculty and Guest Artist Four-Hands Piano Concert: Dr. Cho and Dr. Nam
Date and Time
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 7:30 PM
Description
GVSU Music Faculty member, Dr. Sookkyung Cho, joins Guest Artist, Dr.
Beth Nam, to present an evening of four-hands piano repertoire. This
event is free and open to the public!
GVSU Piano Students will have the opportunity to perform in a
Master Class with Dr. Nam on the same day, Wednesday, Feb. 28th at 3pm
in SVS Recital Hall.
About the performers:
Noted for her “sensitive and imaginative” (New York Concert
Review) playing, Korean-born pianist Sookkyung
Cho has been captivating worldwide audiences with her
personal, thoughtful expressionist style. Recently accepting a
position as Assistant Professor of Piano-Artist Performer at Grand
Valley State University in Michigan, she is also a founding member
of the New York-based Almava Trio. She has appeared in venues such
as Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at
Carnegie Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Sarasota Opera House,
Baltimore Museum of Art, Beaux concerts de la releve in Quebec,
Château de Fontainebleau in France, and Zijingang Theater at
Zhejiang University in China, among others, and was recently heard
on Chicago’s WFMT.
Learn more Dr. Cho here.
Dr. Beth Nam has performed at prestigious
institutions and venues, such as Carnegie Weil Recital Hall and
Lincoln Center Alice Tully Hall, and has also won numerous
competitions and scholarships including the Five Towns Music and Art
Foundation Young Musician Competition and the 15th Annual Young
Pianist Beethoven Competition. She was a recipient of several
teaching fellowships at The Juilliard School including the Gluck
Community Service Fellowship, Morse Fellowship, Piano Minor
Fellowship, and the Music Advancement Program where her students
have been granted acceptances to Juilliard and Manhattan
Pre-Colleges and the Special Music School at Kaufman Center in New
York City. Nam was a piano faculty member at the Geneva Conservatory
of Music in New York City and the Concordia Conservatory in
Bronxville. As an active chamber musician Nam is currently
performing with the Allant trio which has recently released their
first album titled ‘Ignition’ under Sony Classical, and their live
performances have been broadcasted on ABC Classic FM in Australia,
WFMT radio station in Chicago, and MBC network in Korea. In February
2014, the trio gave a highly acclaimed debut recital at Carnegie's
Weill Recital Hall in New York City.
Learn more about Dr. Nam here.
Information
For more information, please visit: http://www.gvsu.edu/piano/2017-2018-44.htm
Contact
Office of Music, Theatre, and Dance
(616) 331-3484