Peoples' Symphony Concerts: Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio
$20.80-$31.20 ($10.40 student/essential worker)
- Gloria Chien, piano
- Soovin Kim, violin
- Paul Watkins, cello
Maurice Ravel — Piano Trio in A minor, M. 67
Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 97 "Archduke"
Chamber music powerhouses Gloria Chien, piano; Soovin Kim, violin; and the Emerson Quartet's Paul Watkins, cello; combine talents for Beethoven's "Archduke" Trio, Ravel Trio, and Saint-Saëns arrangement of Orpheus by Franz Liszt.
About Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio
The Chien-Kim-Watkins Trio comprises three of classical music's most highly esteemed artists performing today: pianist Gloria Chien, violinist Soovin Kim, and cellist Paul Watkins. The trio has been performing together since 2019 and presented Beethoven's groundbreaking Piano Trio cycle at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in 2022.
About Peoples' Symphony Concerts
Peoples' Symphony Concerts mission is to serve the citizens of the New York area who are on a limited budget by presenting classical music performances of the highest caliber at affordable ticket prices.
https://www.pscny.org/About Gloria Chien, piano
About Soovin Kim, violin
Soovin Kim enjoys a broad musical career regularly performing Bach sonatas and Paganini caprices for solo violin, sonatas for violin and piano ranging from Beethoven to Ives, Mozart and Haydn concertos and symphonies as a conductor, and new world-premiere works almost every season. When he was 20 years old, Kim received first prize at the Paganini International Violin Competition. He immersed himself in the string quartet literature for 20 years as the first violinist of the Johannes Quartet. Among his many commercial recordings are his “thrillingly triumphant” (Classic FM Magazine) disc of Paganini's demanding 24 Caprices, and a two-disc set of Bach's complete solo violin works that were released in 2022.
Kim is the founder and artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival (LCCMF) in Burlington, Vermont. In addition to its explorative programming and extensive work with living composers, LCCMF created the ONE Strings program through which all third- through fifth-grade students of the Integrated Arts Academy in Burlington study violin. The University of Vermont recognized Soovin Kim's work by bestowing an Honorary Doctorate upon him in 2015. In 2020, he and his wife, pianist Gloria Chien, became Artistic Directors of Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon. He, with Chien, were awarded Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's 2021 CMS Award for Extraordinary Service to Chamber Music. Kim devotes much of his time to his passion for teaching at the New England Conservatory in Boston, and the Yale School of Music in New Haven.
https://cmnw.org/artists/artists/soovin-kim/28/