December 2, 2011
Recital, co-presented by the Crow Collection, will feature
2009 Silver Medalist Yeol eum Son
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Maggie Estes, Director of
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, 817.738.6536 (o), 817.739.0459 (c)
Fort Worth, Texas, December 2, 2011-In
celebration of the Cliburn's 50th Anniversary and its longstanding
commitment to new music, the Van Cliburn
Foundation and Crow Collection of Asian
Art will present a special recital of Cliburn
Competition Commissioned Works, featuring 2009 Silver
Medalist Yeol eum Son, piano, hosted by
Shields-Collins Bray on Wednesday, January 25,
2012, at 7:30 p.m. in the Horchow
Auditorium at the Dallas Museum of Art.
The event is free and open to the public with no
tickets required. For more information, patrons can
contact the Cliburn at 817.738.6536 or visit Cliburn.org.
Since its inception in 1962, the Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition has required competitors to perform a newly-composed
work. The Cliburn has made a significant contribution to the
standard piano repertoire in its 50-year history, commissioning 10
pieces specifically for competitions and hosting three American
Composers Invitationals.
Yeol eum Son will perform seven of these
commissioned works, including those by Barber, Bernstein, Bolcom,
Copland, Corigliano, Dello Joio, and Shuman.
Promotional partners for this event include the Dallas Museum of
Art, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and the University of Texas at
Dallas School of Arts and Humanities.
YEOL EUM SON BIOGRAPHY
Korean pianist Yeol eum Son's graceful
interpretations, crystalline touch, and versatile, thrilling
performances have caught the attention of audiences worldwide and
resulted in numerous top prizes at international competitions. Most
recently, she earned second prize at the XIV Tchaikovsky
International Music Competition in Moscow, where she also received
awards for Best Chamber Concerto Performance and Best Performance
of the Commissioned Work. In 2009, Ms. Son claimed both the Silver
Medal and the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best
Performance of Chamber Music in the Thirteenth Van Cliburn
International Piano Competition.
A native of South Korea's Kangwon Province, Ms. Son first drew
international attention when she appeared as a soloist with the New
York Philharmonic conducted by Lorin Maazel on the orchestra's
historic tour to Seoul in 2008. A favorite among international
orchestras, Ms. Son has also appeared with the Israel Philharmonic,
Czech Philharmonic, Mariinsky Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra,
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra of
the Dominican Republic. She has performed with the Seoul
Philharmonic, KBS Symphony, and every other major orchestra in her
home country of South Korea, and is also a regular among orchestras
in the United States. Ms. Son is invited frequently to participate
in international music festivals, including Germany's Bad-Kissingen
Summer Music Festival where, in the summer of 2010, she replaced
Leif Ove Andsnes in an acclaimed solo recital. As a soloist and
chamber musician, she has toured extensively throughout the United
States, Europe, and Asia. Considered one of Korea's most important
pianists, Ms. Son was particularly honored to play at the 2007
welcoming concert for the eighth Secretary-General of the United
Nations, Ban Ki-moon, at the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New York
City.
Highlights of the 2011-2012 season include appearances with the
Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Chamber Music Society with
the Albers Trio, Carmel Center for the Performing Arts, St.
Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, Munich Chamber Orchestra,
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and the Beethoven Easter
Festival.
Yeol eum Son currently studies with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule
für Musik und Theater Hannover in Germany, where she now makes her
home. In addition to her busy performance schedule, Ms. Son is an
honorary ambassador of both the Seoul Arts Center and her home city
of Wonju, Korea. She writes regularly for the Joong-Ang
Times, one of Korea's most widely read publications.
ABOUT THE CROW COLLECTION OF ASIAN ART
The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art
is located in the Dallas Arts District. The Crow Collection offers
a variety of spaces and galleries with changing exhibitions of the
arts of China, Japan, India, and Southeast Asia spanning from the
ancient to the contemporary. The museum offers a serene setting for
quiet reflection, shared learning, and unexpected fun. The upcoming
Asian Sculpture Garden will feature traditional Japanese
landscaping, new Asian art acquisitions, and additional works from
the museum's collection. For more information, please go to
crowcollection.org.
ABOUT THE DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
Located in the vibrant Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas,
the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) ranks among the leading art
institutions in the country and is distinguished by its innovative
exhibitions and groundbreaking educational programs. At the heart
of the Museum and its programs are its global collections, which
encompass more than 24,000 works and span 5,000 years of history,
representing a full range of world cultures. Established in 1903,
the Museum welcomes approximately 600,000 visitors annually and
acts as a catalyst for community creativity, engaging people of all
ages and backgrounds with a diverse spectrum of programming, from
exhibitions and lectures to concerts, literary events, and dramatic
and dance presentations. The Dallas Museum of Art is supported in
part by the generosity of Museum members and donors and by the
citizens of Dallas through the City of Dallas/Office of Cultural
Affairs and the Texas Commission on the Arts.
ABOUT THE DALLAS SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of
Music Director Jaap van Zweden, presents the finest in classical
music at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, regarded as one of
the world's premiere concert halls. Maestro van Zweden was named
Musical America's Conductor of the Year 2012, reflecting
his critically acclaimed work with the DSO and as guest conductor
with some of the world's most esteemed orchestras. The largest and
oldest performing arts organization in the southwest, each year the
DSO reaches more than 240,000 adults and 60,000 children through
performances, educational programs and community outreach
initiatives.
ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS SCHOOL OF ARTS
AND HUMANITIES
TheSchool of Arts and Humanities (http://www.utdallas.edu/ah/)
emphasizes education that seeks and creates connections, combining
critical with creative thought, theory with practice, and arts and
humanities with other fields of knowledge. Our goal is to foster in
students an intense curiosity informed by rigorous attention and
the ability not only to solve challenging problems but also to
communicate the process and importance of the solution.You will
find a rich array of courses in the School of Arts and Humanities.
We offer courses in literature, foreign languages, history,
philosophy, music, dance, drama, film, and the visual arts. We also
offer innovative programs like Arts and Technology that connect the
worlds of engineering, humanities, and the creative arts.
ABOUT THE VAN CLIBURN FOUNDATION
The Van Cliburn Foundation disseminates classical music
worldwide, and nurtures and launches young artists' careers through
the quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the
ensuing three-year international concert tours of its medalists,
award-winning documentaries, and a syndicated radio series
dedicated to the Competition and its most memorable performances.
By making the competition available in its entirety on the
Internet, the Foundation has extended its outreach to listeners
around the world.
The Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition will take place May 24-June 9, 2013, at Fort
Worth's Bass Performance Hall and will welcome 30 of the world's
finest young pianists to Texas. From the beginning, the Competition
has been committed to showcasing both the extraordinary talent of
its competitors in recital performance as well as their ability to
collaborate with other musicians. The Fourteenth Competition will
mark the first Cliburn appearance by the world-renowned Brentano
String Quartet in the performance of a piano quintet with each
semifinalist. The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, which has joined
every finalist of every Cliburn Competition onstage, will perform
two concerti with each finalist, under the baton of Maestro Leonard
Slatkin for the first time. Maestro John Giordano will serve as
chairman of the jury for his eleventh Competition since assuming
the post in 1973.
For audiences in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, the Van
Cliburn Foundation promotes great music and world-class artists
through the annual Cliburn Concerts series. It reaches 33,000
elementary school students annually with the education programs of
Musical Awakenings®. In 1999, it established the
International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs™, which
The Boston Globe proclaimed "a celebration of music, and
the people who have to make music, no matter what." The sixth
Amateur Competition was held May 23-29, 2011, at Ed Landreth
Auditorium on the campus of TCU.
Visit Cliburn.org to learn more about the Cliburn during its
50th Anniversary year in 2012.
ExxonMobil is the Principal Corporate Sponsor
of the Van Cliburn Foundation. American Airlines;
"Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust," Bank of America,
Trustee; The Pangburn Foundation, JPMorgan Chase,
N.A., Trustee; and XTO Energy Inc. are
Official Corporate Sponsors. Official Sponsors are the Amon
G. Carter Foundation, Arts Council of Fort Worth
& Tarrant County, the Burnett
Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Foundation,
the Sid W. Richardson Foundation, and the
T. Boone Pickens Foundation.
Star-Telegram is the exclusive print media
sponsor, and WRR 101.1 FM is the official radio
station of Cliburn Concerts.
