Cooke Noontime Concerts: Variety is the Spice of Life
Free
- James Zellers, flute
- Helen Hwaya Kim, violin
- Jasmin Arakawa, piano
Gioachino Rossini — Selected works
Niccolò Paganini — Selected works
Johannes Brahms — Selected works
Virtuoso Variations by Schubert, Rossini, Paganini, and Brahms are performed by Jasmin Arakawa, piano; James Zellers, flute; and Helen Kim, violin.
The John and Linda Cooke Noontime Series are free events presented throughout the year at noon on Fridays.
About Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta
Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta is the Southeast’s largest and most active chamber music organization brings together some of the city's finest resident musicians with internationally-known performers who are dedicated to performing the most delightful, exciting, and interesting music from the chamber repertoire in some of the most acoustically and visually beautiful spaces in Atlanta.
https://chambermusicsociety.emory.edu/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.phpAbout Jasmin Arakawa, piano
Emerson Concert Hall at Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
1700 N Decatur RdAtlanta, GA 30307
United States