A String Quartet from the Royal College of Music

Following the Passionate Keyboard Series and Chamber Series, the KCC Home theatre is also showcasing some of the brightest young classical music talent currently studying and performing in the UK.

The quartet led by violinist Yoonseo Sally Lee will present a fresh interpretation of Haydn’s Quartet Op 20 No 3 movement 1 on violin, viola and cello. This will be followed by a performance of one of Hoffmeister ’s most beautiful duo pieces, his 6 Duets for violin and viola Op 19 No 2.

*Please note: this concert will be available to watch on our YouTube channel for two weeks after the live-stream.

• Programme
  J. Bach Largo from Sonata for violin solo No.3. Paganini - Caprice No.24
  A. Hoffmeister 6 duets for violin and viola Op 19: No 2
  J. Haydn Quartet Op 20: No 3

Performers

Yoonseo Sally Lee (South Korea), first violin, has performed at Wigmore Hall, The Sheldonian Theatre as a soloist, and played in several prestigious venues as an orchestral player, such as Royal Festival Hall, Mansion House (London), Menuhin Festival in Gstaad (Switzerland) and Konzerthaus Berlin. She has been a finalist for numerous competitions, such as Concours Flame, (Paris) and Music Club of London Competition.

Yoonseo Sally Lee currently studies with Radu Blidar at the Royal College of Music in London, where she has been awarded an annual scholarship. Sally began to play the violin when she was four years old. She was selected to the 'Seoul Arts Centre for gifted young children' in Seoul when she was seven and won a number of awards before coming to the UK where she was offered a place to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School.

On the second violin, Annie Pham (USA) made her orchestral debut at age 10 and has soloed numerous times with orchestras throughout the Pacific Northwest including the Seattle Festival Orchestra, the Federal Way Symphony Orchestra, the Eastside Symphony Orchestra, the Coeur d’Alene Symphony Orchestra as a prizewinner of its 2014 National Young Artists Competition, and with the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra as the 2015 Winner of its Concerto Competition.

Violist Nakyung Park (South Korea) has played in prestigious venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Royal festival hall, and Watford Colosseum, St. James Piccadilly and the Queen Elizabeth Hall and numerous times in St Paul’s Cathedral. Also, she was involved in RCM Symphony Orchestra where she performed in Buckingham Palace under the baton with Maxim Vengerov and John Wilson.

Cellist Abigail Lorimier (USA) was a member of the 2013 NAfME US National Honors Orchestra, the 2014 BU Tanglewood Institute, and the 2016 Orchestra of the Americas, to which she was the youngest member admitted for their Baltic and Nordic European tour.

Abigail has additionally been a string fellow with the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute in Washington DC for two summers and a member of the 2019 Irish Chamber Orchestra Academy.