VISION + Friends – A Benefit Concert for Ukraine
Free (RSVP available)
- Doori Na, violin
- Jocelyn Zhu, violin
- Kate Arndt, violin
- Kelly Talim, violin
- Ravenna Lipchik, violin
- Grace Takeda, viola
- Lydia Grimes, viola
- Rayna Weiser Fishman, viola
- Sarah Sung, viola
- Aaron Wolff, cello
- Caitlin Thomas, cello
- Daniel Scoggins, cello
- Drake Driscoll, cello
- Noah Koh, cello
- Beyza Yazgan, piano
- Yun Janice Lu, piano
- Ivalas Quartet
- Marian Anderson String Quartet
Gabriela Lena Frank — Selected works
Mark O'Connor — Selected works
Mykola Lysenko — Selected works
Myroslav Skoryk — Melody
Osvaldo Golijov — Tenebrae
Valentin Silvestrov (Valentyn Sylvestrov) — Postlude for solo violin
Please join The VISION Collective for an evening of live music in support of Kyiv School of Economics Foundation. All proceeds from this event will go to Kyiv School of Economics Foundation, helping them to restore destroyed infrastructure in Ukraine. The KSE Foundation has teamed up with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education of Ukraine to rebuild destroyed clinics and hospitals and renovate bomb shelters in Ukrainian schools.
About The VISION Collective
The VISION Collective was founded in 2018 at The Juilliard School by Executive Director and cellist Drake Driscoll, Director of Programming and violist Sarah Sung, and violinist Timothy Chooi. The collective's mission is to build meaningful relationships with and among refugees and new Americans by sharing and exchanging music between diverse communities. At the local level, VISION performs collaborative concerts at immigrant organizations in the tri-state area. Current partner organizations include Building One Community and the YMCA New Americans Initiative. In the summer of 2019, VISION took their work overseas for the first time, performing one concert at each of three refugee camps in central Germany, interacting with approximately 120 children and adults from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, and Turkey. In recognition of their work, The VISION Collective has received the George J. Jakab Global Enrichment Grant, the Juilliard Entrepreneurship Grant, the Norman Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant, and the Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach.
https://1visioncollective.org/About Doori Na, violin
Known for his sweet and "sumptuous" (The New York Times) tone, American-born violinist Doori Na took up violin at the age of four and began his studies with Li Lin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He quickly made his first performance with orchestra at age seven with the Peninsula Youth Symphony as the first prize winner of the concerto competition. Thereafter Doori went on to win top prizes in The Sound of Music Festival, The Korea Times Youth Music Competition, the Chinese Music Teacher’s Association, The Menuhin Dowling Young Artist Competition, The Junior Bach Festival, VOCE of the Music Teacher's Association of California, and The Pacific Musical Society. Receiving full scholarships to private high school Crossroads School of Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, he moved to Los Angeles to study with renown violin teacher, Robert Lipsett, at The Colburn Music School. There he appeared as soloist with the Palisades Symphony, Brentwood Symphony, and Torrance Symphony. During that time, the summer of 2004 was Doori’s first time at the Perlman Music Program where his expression and musical identity were greatly influenced. He has been a part of the program ever since and participated in many of their special residencies in Florida, Vermont, New York, and Israel.
Currently living in New York City, Doori plays with numerous ensembles around the city. He has played with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with tours in the US, Japan, and Europe performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York and the Musiverien in Vienna. Other orchestras include American Symphony Orchestra at Bard College, American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House, and Riverside Symphony at the Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. The music of our time has also been an integral part of Doori's New York life. He is part of the New Music Project of Argento Chamber Ensemble performing the works of Georg Friedrich Haas, Beat Furrer, Tristan Murail, and many more. One of his favorite groups to work with is New Chamber Ballet, where he has been a member since 2013. He provides live solo music for dance at their regular venue of City Center Studios and have also gone on tour to Lake Tahoe, Germany, and Guatemala.
Chamber music has always been a big part of Doori’s growth as a musician. His first endeavor playing in an ensemble was with the Luna Trio as a teenager, and were finalists at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 2016. From then on, he has collaborated with members of the Juilliard String Quartet, New York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera and has been fortunate to tour with Itzhak Perlman at venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Other notable experiences include performing at the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach with the Bonhoeffer Trio and Les Amies trio.
Doori has also found that teaching and doing outreach is essential to being a well rounded musician. He currently works at the Juilliard School as a teaching assistant to Catherine Cho and gives lessons as well as running play-through classes for the students. In 2015, he returned to the Music Teacher’s Association of California to give a masterclass and recital for their annual convention. Outreach to schools includes going to Sarasota, Florida with the Perlman Music Program/Suncoast, Brazil with Juilliard Global Ventures, the British International School of Chicago with Juilliard President Joseph Polisi, and more.
Doori attended the Juilliard School with the Dorothy Starling and Dorothy Delay scholarships and holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree where he studied under Itzhak Perlman, Catherine Cho, and Donald Weilerstein. He was concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra and was fortunate to play on a Guadagnini and Vuillaume violin from the Juilliard School's prestigious violin collection.
https://doorinaviolin.com/About Jocelyn Zhu, violin
About Grace Takeda, viola
About Sarah Sung, viola
Australian-Korean violist Sarah Sung has travelled globally, performing at orphanages, prisons, rehabilitation centers, and nursing homes since the age of eight. Her purpose as a musician is strongly rooted in her passion to use music as a way of bringing healing and peace to broken communities. She has a vested interest for North Korean defectors and dreams of providing them with free music education.
Sarah is currently in the highly selective Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master's Program at The Juilliard School, studying with Paul Neubauer and Cynthia Phelps. At Juilliard, she is a Gluck Community Service Fellow, and serves as a principal violist of the Juilliard Orchestra. Festival appearances include the Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop, ChamberFest, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Yellow Barn, and International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove and Open Chamber Music directed by Steven Isserlis.
https://www.yellowbarn.org/artist/sarah-sungAbout Aaron Wolff, cello
About Caitlin Thomas, cello
About Beyza Yazgan, piano
About Yun Janice Lu, piano
About Marian Anderson String Quartet
Marianne Henry, violin
Nicole Cherry, violin
Diedra Lawrence, viola
Prudence McDaniel, cello