Karen Kim – Past Concerts
Grammy Award-winning violinist Karen Kim is widely hailed for her sensitive musicianship and passionate commitment to chamber and contemporary music. Her performances have been described as "compellingly structured and intimately detailed" (Cleveland Classical), "muscular and gripping" (New York Classical Review), and having "a clarity that felt personal, even warmly sincere" (The New York Times). She has performed in such prestigious venues and series as Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium and Zankel and Weill Recital Halls; the Celebrity Series of Boston; the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; the Vienna Musikverein; London’s Wigmore Hall; the Musée d'Orsay in Paris; the Seoul Arts Center; and Angel Place in Sydney, Australia. She received the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance in 2011 for her recordings of the complete quartets of György Ligeti.
Esteemed for her versatility across a broad spectrum of musical idioms and artistic disciplines, Ms. Kim has collaborated with artists ranging from Kim Kashkashian, Jörg Widmann, and Shai Wosner to Questlove & The Roots and the James Sewell Ballet. She is a member of the Jasper String Quartet, winners of Chamber Music America's prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award and the Professional Quartet in Residence at Temple University's Center for Gifted Young Musicians. She is also a member of the critically acclaimed Talea Ensemble, Ensemble Échappé, and Deviant Septet, and she is a founding member of the "forward-looking, expert ensemble" Third Sound (The New Yorker).
Ms. Kim received a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Violin Performance, as well as a Master's degree in Chamber Music from the New England Conservatory, where she worked with Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashian, Roger Tapping, Paul Katz, and Dominique Eade. She is a supporter of the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation.
Fortas Chamber Music Concerts: Jasper String Quartet
Vivian Fung — String Quartet No. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130
$58
Gordon Beeferman: ALERTA!
Gordon Beeferman — THE SWAY
Gordon Beeferman — APOCALYPSCAPADES
Gordon Beeferman — TUNNEL VISIONS
$25 advance, $30 doors ($20 student/senior 65+ with ID)
Gordon Beeferman: ALERTA!
Gordon Beeferman — THE SWAY
Gordon Beeferman — APOCALYPSCAPADES
Gordon Beeferman — TUNNEL VISIONS
Free
TIME:SPANS Festival: Talea Ensemble – Enno Poppe
$20 ($10 senior/student)
TIME:SPANS Festival: Talea Ensemble: Alessandrini, Iannotta, Yi Ting Lu, Zubel
Yi-Ting Lu — Timelessness I: Individualism
Agata Zubel — FLASH
Patricia Alessandrini — Pastorale (Hommage à Alfred Schnittke)
$20 ($10 senior/student)
CMNW: Voices of the Soul featuring Fred Child
Wang Jie — Blame the Obituary (world premiere)
Komitas — Armenian Folk Songs
Richard Strauss — Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18
$47.50-$62.50 ($20 ages 18-29, $10 ages 17 & under)
CMNW: Voices of the Soul featuring Fred Child
Wang Jie — Blame the Obituary (world premiere)
Komitas — Armenian Folk Songs
Richard Strauss — Violin Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 18
$47.50-$62.50 ($20 ages 18-29, $10 ages 17 & under)
CMNW New@Night: International voices
Lembit Beecher — Stories from My Grandmother (2009)
Edvard Baghdasaryan (Eduard Baghdasarian) — Rhapsody for violin and piano
Magnus Lindberg — Caprice for solo violin (2022)
$30 ($20 under age 30, $10 under age 18)
Talea Encores: Kendall, Saariaho, Saunders, Lewis
Kaija Saariaho — Duft (for solo clarinet)
Rebecca Saunders — White (for solo trumpet)
George Lewis — Seismologic (for solo bassoon & electronics)
$20 ($10 student/senior)