Past Concert: 2015/05/23 8:00 PM: Presenting Ha Young Jung, Miles Fellenberg

THE MUSICIANS CLUB OF NEW YORK

Presents

HA YOUNG JUNG, DOUBLE BASS

First Prize Winner
 2013 Serge & Olga Koussevitzky Young Artist Awards

MILES FELLENBERG, PIANO

Saturday, May 23, 2015 at 8:00 PM

Liederkranz Concert Hall
6 East 87th Street
New York City

PROGRAM

Paul Kirby: Suite for Double Bass and Piano

1. Dithering
2. Blues
3. Ballad
4. Confluence

Antonin Dvořák (1841–1904) : Gypsy Songs, Op. 55

I. My Song of Love Rings Through the Dusk

II. Hey, Ring Out, My Triangle

III. All Round About the Woods are Still

IV. Songs My Mother Taught Me

V. Come and Join the Danci

VI. The Gypsy Songman

VII. Give a Hawk a Fine Cage

Edvard Grieg (1843–1907): Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in G major, Op. 13

I. Lento doloroso — Allegro vivace

II. Allegretto tranquillo

III. Allegro animato

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911): Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Vol. 2 (1899)

XI. Urlicht

HA-YOUNG JUNG, DOUBLE BASS

“The best double bass playing I have ever heard.” – Ida Haendel, CBE

"Ha Young is a top talent on the double bass, among the very best I have ever seen." – Timothy Cobb, Principal Bass, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; Double Bass Chair, The Juilliard School

“Disarming prodigy, who achieved the rare distinction of making her instrument seem worthy of solo status.” – Michael White, The Daily Telegraph

Double bassist Ha Young Jung has captivated audiences and music critics alike with her dynamic and engaging performances. Her list of national and international competition successes is considerable and includes the Silver Medal in the Serge Koussevitzky International Double Bass Competition in 2007 (St. Petersburg, Russia), First Prize in the International Society of Bassists’ Competition in 2007 (Oklahoma City, USA), the Grand-Prix in the International String Competition in 2006 (Moscow, Russia), and was selected to be the Solti Foundation’s Musician of the Year in 2006 (Belgium).

Ha Young has performed as a soloist and chamber music in notable venues around the world, including Cadogan Hall (London), Grieg House (Bergen), Opera House (Tel Aviv), Philharmonic Hall (St. Petersburg), Tchaikovsky Great Hall (Moscow), and The Wigmore Hall (London) and She was a guest artist in various national and international music festivals, including the Bergen International Festival, the Eilat International Festival (Israel), the Hardanger International Music Festival (Norway), and Wimbledon International Chamber Music Festival (London). As an orchestral musician she has worked with many distinguished orchestras performing in venues including Alice Tully Hall (New York), Carnegie Hall (New York), and Barbican Centre (London).

She has appeared as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic, Moscow Virtuoso Chamber Orchestra, Southbank Sinfonia, Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, Yonsei Sinfonietta, and the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra.

Ha Young has studied at the Royal College of Music, The Juilliard School, and Yale University. Her principal teachers include Timothy Cobb, Rinat Ibragimov, Chang-Hyoung Lee, Tom Martin, and Don Palmer. She was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in 2009 under the auspices of the ESU Scholarship and has been a member of the Razumovsky Academy since 2006, where she was the recipient of the Razumovsky Trust Scholarship and works regularly with Oleg Kogan. At the Academy, she performed in masterclasses with Ida Haendel, Vadim Repin, Alexander Chaushian, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Pavel Vernikov and Maxim Rysanov.

MILES FELLENBERG, PIANO

Pianist Miles Fellenberg has performed and taught in many different contexts across four continents. He is currently a staff pianist at The Juilliard School and is on the piano faculty at Church Street School for Music & Art. He has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Museum of Modern Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Harvard University, and many other institutions and venues from California to New York.

This past summer 2014, he directed the New Jersey Young Artist Piano Competition (www.njyapc.com), a competition and festival for pianists aged 13-18 and ran workshops on piano, chamber music, and ear training at various high schools and music schools in South Korea. This coming summer 2015, he will be a staff pianist at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. He was previously the chair of the piano program at Rappahannock Summer Music Camp in Virginia and has held teaching and performing residencies in Ecuador, Italy, and China.

Fellenberg graduated from Manhattan School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, and The Juilliard School, where he studied with Jonathan Feldman.

Past Concerts

Past Concert: 2015/05/23 8:00 PM: Presenting Ha Young Jung, Miles Fellenberg