92Y: Musicians from the Curtis Institute of Music & John de Lancie, narrator, perform Stravinsky's 'L'histoire du soldat' & more
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- David Shifrin, clarinet
- Soovin Kim, violin
- John de Lancie, narrator
Francis Poulenc — Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon, FP 32a
Krzysztof Penderecki — Duo Concertante for Violin and Double Bass
Nick Diberardino — Darmok & Jalad
Igor Stravinsky — L'Histoire du soldat ("The Soldier’s Tale")
Musicians from the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music perform Stravinsky's bold, jazzy, modern work for narrator and orchestra, with actor John de Lancie (Star Trek) taking on the role of narrator/soldier/devil.
De Lancie has a deep connection to Curtis – his father, John de Lancie, Sr. was the longtime principal oboist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and later director of the Curtis Institute. The program also includes selections featuring instrumentation employed in the Stravinsky work – clarinet and bassoon via Poulenc's masterful, rarely performed Sonata; violin and double bass in a neoclassical Penderecki work; along with a new commission by esteemed Curtis Institute faculty member Nick DiBerardino. Opening the concert is young Vietnamese composer and Curtis alum Viet Cuong's Well-Groomed, a fabulously inventive solo piece for snare drum, credit card and comb, setting the stage for the pronounced percussion of the Stravinsky work.
Attending online: Concert available for viewing online for 72 hours from time of broadcast.
Attending in person: Masks are highly recommended at 92NY. Visitors are not required to show proof of vaccination.
About 92Y
About Curtis on Tour
Curtis on Tour features extraordinary emerging professional artists performing alongside celebrated faculty and alumni. Grounded in Curtis's "learn by doing" philosophy and steeped in the school’s distinguished history of artistic excellence, this innovative global touring initiative is an integral component of a Curtis education.
For more than 10 years, Curtis on Tour artists and ensembles have delighted audiences around the globe with performances that are "exhilarating from beginning to end" (Washington Post).
https://www.curtis.edu/curtis-performances/on-tour/About David Shifrin, clarinet
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/