UW Wind Ensemble: South Korea Tour Preview Concert, with Robin McCabe & Donna Shin
$10
- Robin McCabe, piano
- Donna Shin, flute
- Grace Jun, flute
- Eun Ju Vivianna Oh, soprano
- Shaun Day, conductor
- Roger Wu Fu, conductor
- David Stewart, conductor
Ahn Eak-tai — Aegukga (South Korean National Anthem) (Eun Ju Vivianna Oh, soprano)
Joseph Willcox Jenkins — American Overture for Band
H. Owen Reed — The Heart of the Morn (Eun Ju Vivianna Oh, soprano)
John Barnes Chance — Variations on a Korean Folk Song
George Gershwin — Rhapsody in Blue (Robin McCabe, piano)
Albert Franz Doppler — Andante et Rondo, Op. 25 (Donna Shin & Grace Jun, flute)
David Maslanka — Symphony No. 4
The UW WInd Ensemble (Timothy Salzman, director) performs music prepared for the group's upcoming tour of South Korea. WIth Eun Ju Vivianna Oh, soprano, and graduate conductors Shaun Day, Roger Wu Fu, and David Stewart.
About Robin McCabe, piano
Robin McCabe has established herself as one of America's most communicative and persuasive artists, delighting audiences across the United States, Europe, Canada and in nine concert tours of the Far East. Winner of the International Concert Artists Guild Competition and recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation grant, Robin McCabe was the subject of a New Yorker magazine profile, "Pianist's Progress," later expanded into a book of the same title. A member of the Juilliard faculty from 1978 to 1987, she joined the piano faculty at the University of Washington in 1987 and was director of the School of Music from 1994 to 2009. McCabe holds a Michiko Morita Miyamoto Professorship in Piano at the UW.
https://music.washington.edu/people/robin-mccabeAbout Donna Shin, flute
About Grace Jun, flute
Grace Jun is an active soloist, orchestral musician, and teacher based in Seattle, Washington. Currently, Grace is pursuing her Master of Music in Flute Performance at the University of Washington (UW). In 2020, she graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Flute Performance and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the UW. During her time at the UW and now during her graduate program, Grace was/is the principal flutist of the UW Symphony Orchestra and the UW Wind Ensemble. Invited to go on tour to China with the UW’s Wind Ensemble to Xi’an, Beijing, and Chengdu in 2019, Grace was also invited to lead a masterclass at the Xi’An Gaoxin No. 1 Primary School. Prior to this, she performed as principal flute for the West Side Story with the Seattle Symphony at Benaroya Hall, under the baton of Maestro Ludovic Morlot.
https://www.gracejunflute.com/About Eun Ju Vivianna Oh, soprano
Korean American soprano, Eun Ju Vivianna Oh has had an adventure-filled and multi-faceted career as a recording artist, music director, teacher, and a mother of two beautiful daughters but she never gave up her passion to become an opera singer. She has recently re-energized her life-long dream journey as a singer through pursuing a DMA in Voice Performance under the guidance of the esteemed professor Dr. Carrie Shaw.
https://music.washington.edu/people/eun-ju-vivianna-ohAbout Shaun Day, conductor
About Roger Wu Fu, conductor
About David Stewart, conductor
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