Music Events
Faculty Recital: Dr. Sookkyung Cho
Date and Time
Monday, November 4, 2019 7:30 PM
Description
Monday, Nov. 4, 7:30pm, SVS
Faculty Piano Recital
Dr. Sookkyung Cho
Sonata in A minor, D. 537 Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Allegro ma non troppo
Allegretto quasi andantino
Allegro vivace
Liebesfreud Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962)
Transcribed by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op. 60 Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, Op. 19 Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915)
Andante
Presto
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.
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 and Xi’an Conservatory in China, among others, and
was recently heard on Chicago’s WFMT. A founding member of the New
York-based Almava Trio, she has also been featured in major music
festivals including Yellow Barn, Norfolk, and Sarasota, and was a
Performing Associate at Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine.
As a sought-after pedagogue, Dr. Cho has been invited to
adjudicate competitions at major institutions and organizations
including New England Conservatory Preparatory School, Walnut Hill
School for the Arts, University of Michigan, and Michigan Music
Teachers’ Association. During the current year, she was invited to
judge the China regional round of the Osaka International Music
Competition at Xi’an Conservatory in China and to perform and teach as
a clinician for Gilmore Keyboard Festival’s KeysFest. She has also
taught as a piano instructor for the LINKS Signature Arts Program at
The Juilliard School in New York and as piano and chamber music
faculty at NEC Preparatory in Boston. An emerging performer-scholar,
she was selected to present a lecture-recital at College Music Society
for its biennial International Conference in Korea and has also taught
music theory at Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
She holds a Master of Music degree from Peabody and Bachelor of
Music from Juilliard, where she was honored with John Erskine
Graduation Prize. She also received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree
from Juilliard as C. V. Starr Doctoral Fellow. Her teachers include
Boris Slutsky, Julian Martin, Matti Raekallio, and Jonathan Bass.
Accepting the position of Assistant Professor of Piano,
Artist-Performer at Grand Valley State University, she moved to Grand
Rapids in August 2015 and is proud to call West Michigan home. (www.sookkyungcho.com)
Contact
Dr. Sookkyung Cho
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