Hay Music: Korean Duo
Hay Music: Korean Duo
HAY MUSIC invites you to an afternoon concert at Dorstone House to hear performances by an exciting young duo from South Korea, featuring Marisol Lee on violin and MinJung Baek on piano.
PROGRAMME
Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Violin in A major, Op.12 No. 2
Brahms Two Intermezzi from Klavierstucke Op 118 (solo piano)
No 1 in A minor
No 2 in A major
Brahms Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano in D minor, Op. 108
INTERVAL
J S Bach Sonata for solo violin No. 2 in A minor, BMV 1003
Ist mov. Grave
4th mov. Allegro
Schubert Violin Sonata in A major, D.574 “Grand Duo”
Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94bis
Hay Music are most grateful to the Korean Cultural Centre UK for their co-production of this concert. Opened by the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in January 2008 in London under the jurisdiction of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, the Korean Cultural Centre UK has played a vital role in the enhancement of friendship, amity and understanding between Korea and the UK through cultural and educational activities.
Marisol Lee
Violinist Marisol Lee was born in Seoul, and started learning the violin at the age of five. She graduated from Seoul National University at the top of her class. In 2006 she transferred to the German National College of Music in Munich and in 2012 she was awarded the “Dowager Viscountess Rothermere Scholarship” and “Violet Strutton Award” to enter The Royal Academy of Music London, and a scholar at “Hattori Music Foundation”. Marisol Lee plays a violin "Giovanni Francesco Pressenda" on loan from the Royal Academy of Music, where she is studying for her MA in Performance.
MinJung Baek
The Winner of the 2012 Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Competition, Korean pianist MinJung Baek began studying the piano at the age of four, entered her first competition at five and by eleven she had won fifty Korean national competitions. Later, she won top prizes at many international piano competitions. She has been invited to and played at numerous music festivals including the 2012 City of London Festival and 2013 Brighton Festival.
MinJung completed Master of Performance with distinction under the guidance of Ronan O’Hora and Martin Roscoe at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she won the 2011 Beethoven Prize and is currently studying on the Artist Diploma programme as a full scholarship student and has also completed an Artist Diploma at the world famous Accademia Pianistica Internazionale “Incontri col maestro” di Imola, Italy with Leonid Margarius, a pupil of Regina Horowitz. Recent highlights include debut concerts at the Wigmore Hall, St Martins in the Field (World Pianist Series), Purcell Room, Benjamin Britten Theatre and the Barbican.
