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Sunday, October 27, 2024
— a “hybrid” event —
Min Young Park
Yejin Lee
Piano 4-Hands
The Art of Four Hands
Signature Pieces for Piano Duo, Played as One
An evening of piano artistry as lifelong friends and musical partners bring to life timeless four-hands masterpieces by Mozart, Schubert, Poulenc, and Brahms. Each piece in this program has become an undeniable staple of the four-hands repertoire, showcasing the elegance, depth, and charm that only a truly harmonious duo can achieve. Through their seamless unity and years of friendship, these two pianists perform with a single breath, creating a musical experience that is as intimate as it is powerful.
BIOGRAPHIES
Min Young Park
Korean Pianist Min Young Park has earned broad recognition for her talented artistry. She was awarded First Prize at the Chopin National Competition in Korea in 2000 at the age of thirteen, and after two years she won First Prize at Asia Chopin International Competition in Japan. In 2008 she was selected as winner at the concerto competition in Seoul National University, and she also won First Prize at the Harrison L. Winter Piano Competition at The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University in 2014.
Park has given number of solo recitals which are; Kumho Young Artist Concert Series at Kumho Art Hall, Rising Talent of Young Pianists concert at Sejong Chamber Hall, solo recital at Leith Symington Griswold Hall, Paul Hall of The Juilliard School, and Concert Hall of Seoul National University. She debuted in Baltimore, USA with Peabody Symphony Orchestra in 2015. Over the last decade, she has appeared with Prime orchestras, Seoul Arts High school orchestra and with Seoul National University Symphony Orchestra as a representative of university at Seoul Arts Center.
As an avid chamber musician, she has performed at The Carnegie Weill Hall, The Juilliard School, St. Paul’s Church of Columbia University in New York. Ms. Park was recently invited to the Music@Menlo, Taos Chamber Music Festival in U.S and the Festival “Aigues-Vives en Musiques” in France. She worked with Wu Han, David Finckle, Gilbert Kalish, Robert McDonald, Judith Ingolfsson, Vladimir Stoupel, Borromeo String Quartet, Brentano String Quartet, and Miro Quartet. She also participated in the Bowdoin International Music Festival in 2014 as a Kaplan Fellowship recipient. At diverse festivals, she has studied with renowned pianists such as Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Joseph Kalichstein, Arie Vardi, John O’conor, Naum Grubert, Matti Raekallio, among others.
Park graduated Summa cum laude from Seoul National University under the instruction of Ick Choo Moon. She completed her master degree of music at The Juilliard School where she worked with Choong Mo Kang. A Graduate Assistantship in Accompanying enabled her to attend The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She recently graduated from The Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University with her Doctoral Music of Arts under the tutelage of Yong Hi Moon. As a devoted educator, Ms. Park taught music minor students on the Peabody at Homewood program from 2019 to 2022 and joined the piano faculty of the Peabody Preparatory in January 2020.
Yejin Lee
Pianist Yejin Lee is an active soloist and a chamber musician based in the United States. Yejin’s performances have been praised for her “coloristic and poetic expressions” and “compelling and thrilling rhythmic senses,” and she has been invited to perform in many prestigious venues around the world. Yejin had her solo debut at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York with the invitation from the Annual Velia International Music Festival, and her appearances include as a guest artist at the Cultural Art Center in Jaen, Spain and the Tyler Recital Hall in Florida, and Seoul Arts Center and Yong San Art Hall in Seoul, Korea. Claimed top awards at a number of national and international competitions, including at Dallas International Piano Competition, Kingsville International Piano Competition, Wideman International Piano Competition, Yejin also had a privilege to perform at leading music festivals and masterclasses at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg, Banff Music Festival, Gijon Music Festival in Gijon, Spain and Piano Texas International Academy & Festival, where she shared musical inspiration with great pedagogues and pianists in this century like Richard Goode, Dmitry Bashkirov, Stephen Hough, John O’Conor, John Perry, and Karl-Heinz Kammering. Yejin holds both piano performance and vocal accompanying degrees from Oberlin Conservatory with honors under Haewon Song and Philip Highfill and Masters and Doctorate degrees under Boris Slutsky from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
She currently serves as a piano faculty at Washington Conservatory of Music and a professorial lecturer at George Washington University. In addition, Yejin is a current member of MTNA and NVMTA, and she manages a private piano studio dedicated to teaching. As a founder and an artistic director of Matinee-M and a pianist member of Baltimore Musicales, she is also committed to bringing classical music into the community.
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