Salon 2018-06-17 Jasper de Boor

Sunday June 17, 2018 in Mclean

Emerson Avenue Salons proudly presents

Jasper de Boor

violin

The program will include the following:

Violin Sonata No.3, Op.12 No.3, Mvt. 1*                                    Ludwig van Beethoven

Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006                                             Johann Sebastian Bach

24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op.1, #15 in E minor, Posato       Niccolò Paganini

Violin Concerto No.1 in D major, Op.19*                                   Sergei Prokofiev

Prelude and Fugue No. VI in D*                                                   Johann Sebastian Bach
from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 851

*(Jasper’s mom, Geneva Moores, will accompany Jasper on piano for a few pieces)

Jasper de Boor started his studies of violin with Ronda Cole at the age of 3. He is currently co-concertmaster of the American Youth Philharmonic, which he joined in 2014. Since 2015 he has participated in the AYPO Chamber Music program, and he has spent the last six summers playing chamber music at Greenwood Music Camp. He is also a founding member of the Trio Giusto which participated in the 2018 Fischoff Competition. For his solo work, he has won prizes in many competitions; most recently, having won the AYP concerto competition, he played the 3rd movement of the Prokofiev with AYP on June 3, 2018 and he won 1st place in the May 2018 NVMTA String Achievement Award. Jasper also studies piano with Douglas Harrington, plays ultimate frisbee, and works on short films in his spare time. He is currently an 11th grader at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, VA.

(Editor’s note: check out the following YouTube of Jasper, younger than I’ve ever been, playing better than I’ll ever play:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebESIbKgufA  )