March 15, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Maggie Estes, Director of Marketing
mestes@cliburn.org,
817.738.6536
Fort Worth, Texas, March 15, 2011--Yeol eum
Son, silver medalist of the 2009 Van Cliburn International
Piano Competition, will present a free concert on Tuesday,
April 5, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. at Fort Worth's historic
Rose Marine Theater, located at 1440 North Main
Street. This performance is open to the public and does not require
a ticket.
Since 2007, the Cliburn has presented free Community Concerts
annually across Fort Worth. This year's concerts have been
generously underwritten by Chesapeake Energy and
are produced as part of the Cliburn's Musical
Awakenings® children's education program with the
goal of making first-rate, live classical music performance
accessible to all. The Cliburn's Community Concerts provide a
casual and engaging atmosphere for audiences to learn about and
experience the classical masterpieces played by the featured
performers. In addition to the performance at the Rose Marine
Theater, concerts for Musical Awakenings students and
senior citizens will also be held at the Greenbriar, Como,
Southwest, and Northside Community Centers, as well as at the
Resource Connection Campus.
Yeol eum Son
Ms. Son was awarded 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 held
in Fort Worth, Texas, May 22-June 7, 2009. A native of South
Korea's Kangwon Province, she first drew international attention
when she appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic
conducted by Lorin Maazel during their historic tour of Seoul in
2008.
A favorite among international orchestras, she has toured
extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Ms. Son
has appeared with the Israel Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, and
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestras as well as the NHK Symphony and
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestras in Japan and the Jerusalem Symphony
Orchestra in Israel. 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, including the Pacific Symphony, Utah Symphony, and
the orchestras of Greenville, Hudson Valley, Hartford, Springfield
(MO), and Columbus.
In addition to her achievement at the Cliburn Competition, Ms. Son
was the first place winner in Italy's 2002 Viotti International
Music Competition, as well as the winner of Germany's Kissinger
Klavierolympiade in Bad-Kissingen and the 2000 Ettlingen
International Piano Competition. She won third prize in the
triennial Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in
2005. Named Kumho Musician of the Year in 2005, Ms. Son is
supported by the Kumho-Asiana Cultural Foundation.
Yeol eum Son currently studies with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule
für Musik und Theater Hannover in Germany, where she now makes her
home. She holds a degree from the Korean National University
of the Arts, where she studied with Dae Jin Kim. In addition to her
busy performance schedule, Ms. Son is an honorary ambassador of her
home city of Wonju, Korea and writes regularly for the
Joong-Ang Times, one of Korea's most widely read
publications.
About the Van Cliburn Foundation
The Van Cliburn Foundation disseminates classical music
worldwide, and launches and nurtures 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 in
every corner of the globe.
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 over 30,000 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
will be held May 23-29, 2011 at Ed Landreth Auditorium on the
campus of TCU.
Visit Cliburn.org to learn more about the Cliburn as it approaches
the 50th anniversary of the first Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition.
ExxonMobil is the Principal Corporate Sponsor of
the Van Cliburn Foundation. American Airlines;
"Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust," Bank of America,
Trustee; Steinway & Sons; and
XTO Energy Inc. are Official Corporate Sponsors.
Official Sponsors are the Amon G. Carter
Foundation, Arts Council of Fort Worth &
Tarrant County, Beaumont Foundation of
America, the Burnett 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.
