Hear Her Voice in Music: A Celebration of Women in Sound & Poetry
$33.85 ($23.18 with group of 3, $5 ages 16 & under)
- Mia HyeYeon Kim, piano
- Ksenia Popova, soprano
- Rosie Jeongwon Kim
Cécile Chaminade — L'Ondine, Op. 101
Vítězslava Kaprálová — Dubnová preludia ("April Preludes"), Op. 13
Clara Schumann — Impromptu in E major
Pauline Viardot — Der Sterne
Amy Beach — Dreaming, Op. 15, No. 3
Amy Beach — Romance for violin and piano, Op. 23
Bohdana Frolyak — Stuck
Note: This performance, originally scheduled for March 8, has been rescheduled to March 29.
Join us to celebrate the contributions of women to the world of music. Our audience will hear the voices of women composers through their melodies, harmonies, and rhythms. Also our recital includes art songs based on lyrics by female poets, past and present. The program will feature a selection of works by Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Cécile Chaminade, Pauline Viardot, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Rebecca Clarke, and Amy Marcy Beach. We will also perform music of contemporary composers from Pacific Northwest and Ukraine: Sarah Bassingthwaighte, Bohdana Frolyak, and Hanna Havrylets.
Program
Fanny Mendelssohn: March
Pauline Viardot: Selected songs
Clara Schumann: Impromptu in E Major
Clara Schumann: From 3 Romances
Cécile Chaminade: L’Ondine
Amy Beach: Dreaming
Amy Beach: Romance,
Vítězslava Kaprálová: Dubnová preludia (April Preludes), Op. 13
Bohdana Frolyak: Stuck
Bohdana Frolyak: Nocturne
Hanna Havryletz: Ex Libris Improvisazione
Myroslav Volynsky/Anna Volynska: Selected art songs
About Mia HyeYeon Kim
Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Mia HyeYeon Kim began her piano studies at age seven. Her accomplishments include prizes in the Frances Walton Competition, the Metropolitan International Piano Competition, the Texas State International Piano Competition, the Memphis International Piano Competition, the Universal Music Competition, and the Seoul Philharmonic Competition. In spring 2024, she performed George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the UW Wind Ensemble, conducted by Timothy Salzman, in Seattle and Daejeon, South Korea. In 2023, she performed with the Texas Central Philharmonic Orchestra under Stefan Sanders as a winner of the Texas State International Piano Concerto Competition. In 2022, she won the University of Washington’s concerto competition and performed Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the UW Symphony Orchestra under David Rahbee. As a dedicated chamber musician, Kim has performed extensively with both vocalists and instrumentalists in programs ranging from Baroque to modern music. Mia HyeYeon Kim is a professional performance member of the Ladies Musical Club of Seattle, the PNW Kobzar Project, and the Georgia Musicale Group. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at the University of Washington under Craig Sheppard, holding ABD status.
https://www.pianistmiakim.com/
About Rosie Jeongwon Kim
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Rosie Jeongwon Kim studied at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and Carnegie Mellon University. Rosie has performed with Owensboro Symphony, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Portland Columbia Symphony,
Northwest Symphony Orchestra, and The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. She is also a dedicated chamber musician. https://www.facebook.com/jeongwon.kim.336
About Ksenia Popova
Ksenia Popova has been hailed by The News Tribune as “a soprano to watch.” Ms. Popova has sung the roles of Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Juliette (Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette), Micaela (Carmen), Polly Peachum (The Threepenny Opera), Josephine (H.M.S Pinafore)with Tacoma Opera, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) with Pacific Northwest Opera, Josephine (H.M.S Pinafore) with Opera Coeur d’Alene, and Juliette (Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette), Gilda (Rigoletto), Adele (Die Fledermaus) with Vashon Opera. She has participated in community performances for Seattle Opera and Portland Opera. In concert, Ms. Popova appeared as the Soprano Soloist in Carmina Burana with the Greater Seattle Choral Consortium and Sammamish Symphony Orchestra. She is a Metropolitan Opera National Council Third Place Regional winner and has received several Audience Favorite and Encouragement Awards. Ms. Popova also serves as the founder and executive director of Opera On Tap Seattle.
Refreshments provided at no charge.
About PNW Kobzar Project
PNW Kobzar Project continues the authentic Ukrainian kobzar tradition of story telling via the language of music and art songs.
Kobzar (Ukrainian кобзар) literally means 'kobza player', a performer on Ukrainian stringed instrument of the lute family, and more broadly — a performer of the musical material associated with the kobzar tradition. The professional kobzar tradition was established during the Hetmanate Era around the sixteenth century in Ukraine. Kobzars accompanied their singing with a musical instrument known as the kobza, bandura, or lira. Their repertoire primarily consisted of para-liturgical psalms and "kanty", and also included a unique epic form known as "dumas" (Ukrainian equivalent of epic ballads, literal translated to English as "thoughts").
Kobzardom in Ukraine is similar to Western European poet-musician tradition such as Celtic bards, Old Nord/Eddic scalds, French troubadours, and Greek kitharodes. In Ukraine the word kobzar is associated with the great national poet Taras Shevchenko who was greatly influenced by kobzar traditions. His most famous poetry collection is called Kobzar. Urkainians show Taras Shevchenko the deep respect to his contributions to Ukrainian language and literature by calling him Kobzar. In PNW Kobzar Project concerts, we will include art songs based on Taras Shevchenko’s lyrics as well as the instrumental chamber music inspired by his literary and artistic heritage.
In addition to artistic aspect, kobzars were also old Ukrainian tradition keepers and news spreaders while traveling town to town and village to village. They played the role of the social media independent from the state authorities. During the time of serf system introduced to Ukraine by the Russian Empire (1783-1861) kobzars were those few people in Ukraine who could travel and speak freely though both administrative state and religious authorities of the Russian Empire did everything possible to reduce the influence of kobzars.
https://pnwkobzarproject.bandzoogle.comAbout Mia HyeYeon Kim, piano
Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Mia HyeYeon Kim began her piano studies at age seven. Her accomplishments include prizes competitions including the Frances Walton Competition founded by Ladies Musical club of Seattle, the Metropolitan International Piano Competition, Texas International Piano Competition, Memphis International Piano Competition, Universal Music Competition, and Seoul Philharmonic Competition. Recently, she won the concerto competition at University of Washington, and performed Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 with the UW Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Rahbee. She has performed as a soloist at venues such as Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall in New York, Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory in Boston, Cypress Hall at California State University Northridge, Youngsan Art Hall in Seoul, and the Palazzo del Vignola with the Napolinova Orchestra in Todi, Italy. She also presented at masterclasses for legendary pianists including Richard Goode, John Perry, Julian Martin, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Enrico Elisi, Boris Slutsky, Jason Kwak, Hieyon Choi, and Gary Graffman.
https://www.pianistmiakim.com/About Ksenia Popova, soprano
Soprano Ksenia Popova has been hailed by The News Tribune as "a soprano to watch." Ms. Popova has sung the roles of Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Juliette (Gounod's Roméo et Juliette), Micaela (Carmen), Polly Peachum (The Threepenny Opera), Josephine (H.M.S Pinafore)with Tacoma Opera, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) with Pacific Northwest Opera, Josephine (H.M.S Pinafore) with Opera Coeur d'Alene, and Juliette (Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette), Gilda (Rigoletto), Adele (Die Fledermaus) with Vashon Opera.
https://www.kseniapopova.com/