Atlanta Chamber Players: Mozart, Horne, & Schumanns
$25 ($15 seniors, students & livestream free)
- Tia Roper, flute
- Alcides Rodriguez, clarinet
- Helen Hwaya Kim, violin
- Catherine Lynn, viola
- Brad Ritchie, cello
- Elizabeth Pridgen, piano
Benjamin Horne — I Remember You (regional premiere)
Clara Schumann — Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22
Robert Schumann — Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47
The Atlanta Chamber Players are thrilled to open their 47th Season at Peachtree Road United Methodist Church with stunning classical works by Mozart, Ravel, and both Robert and Clara Schumann. To round out the program, a regional premiere by the Cross-Country Chamber Consortium 2022 winner Benjamin Horne, a quartet featuring clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. This program will be livestreamed.
Founded in 1976 as a mixed ensemble of strings, winds, and piano, the Atlanta Chamber Players (ACP) have earned a national reputation as a pioneer among chamber groups and are widely respected as a cultural treasure in the Southeast.
About Tia Roper, flute
About Helen Hwaya Kim, violin
Helen Hwaya Kim joined the music faculty in 2006 at Kennesaw State University with a stellar performance background. She made her orchestral debut with the Calgary Philharmonic at the age of six, and has gone on to become a respected and sought-after artist. She has appeared as a soloist with the Boston Pops at Boston's Symphony Hall, as well as with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras.
Ms. Kim earned her Bachelor and Master's Degree from the Juilliard School, where her teachers included Cho-Liang Lin and Dorothy DeLay. While at Juilliard, she served as Concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra and was the winner of the Juilliard Concerto Competition at both the Pre–College and College levels. She is the recipient of more than one hundred national and international awards. She won the prestigious Artists International Competition in New York and, as a result, gave debut recitals at Carnegie Weill Hall and the Aspen Summer Music Festival.
A native of Canada, Ms. Kim has been engaged by many of Canada's leading orchestras, including the National Arts Center Orchestra, Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, McGill Chamber Orchestra, and the Windsor, Regina, Victoria and Prince George Symphonies. She has also appeared with the DeKalb, New Orleans, Aspen, and Banff Festival Orchestras, and with orchestras in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Poland.
https://facultyweb.kennesaw.edu/hkim14/index.php