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July 10, 2009: The Atlantic Music Festival Back |
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Performers featured in the Atlantic Music Festival were in studio on Friday, July 10 for a live performance. Violinists Ari Streisfeld and Sin-Kyu Lee performed with Cellist Jonah Kim and composer/pianist Sheridan Seyfried. They were accompanyied by artistic director Solbong Kim. Selections included J.S. Bach's Prelude, from Suite in D and Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata.
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Solbong Kim is the Artistic Director of the Atlantic Music Festival, running from July 4 through 24 at Colby College in Waterville. Still in his twenties, this Korean-American composer, Solbong Kim, offers a diverse body of work. Highlights of performances and premieres in 2009 include performance of Concerto for Viola and Orchestra with violist Sangjin Kim and Cheongju City Philharmonic Orchestra at Symphonic Festival in April, followed by the premiere of Sundial Chronicles (2009) as the composer-in-residence at Seoul Spring Festival in May. That month, Godiva Miniatures (2005) was performed by Koreana Chamber Music Society. His Concerto for Viola and Orchestra will be performed at this year's Atlantic Music Festival.
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Kim grabbed the spotlight of the industry when media giant Bertelsmann Group (now SONY/BMG) announced that his Music for Orchestra (1998) was the grand-prize winner of 2000 World of Expression Awards while he was still a student at The Juilliard School Pre-College Division. Chosen among 3,000 submissions, his work was dubbed, "a sophisticated piece of music that is a listening adventure." Billboard Magazine called him "Bertelsmann’s finest." The following year, Kim entered the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music. While at Curtis, he was named the composer-in-residence by the New York Sinfonietta and received the prestigious Presser Music Award in 2005.
Kim made his Korean debut in 2004 with his Credo (2004), a work written for the Euro-Asian Philharmonic and Chorus, generating great enthusiasm from both the audience and the critics. Credo was praised for its freedom and originality as well as its spiritual inspiration and religious poise. The success of the Credo was followed by his orchestral work Illumination (2004), performed by the Korean Symphony under the direction of the composer Andrew Thomas and Gotham Loops (2007), performed at the 2007 Symphonic Festival in Seoul. His Piano Quartets From The Sixth Hour and Postcard were recorded by the MIK Ensemble followed by a recording of his orchestral works Gotham Loops, Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (2007), Ash Tree Song(2003), and Sacred Meadow (2005) for Stomp/EMI Label. Currently, Kim is serving as the Artistic Director of Dumbo Space, a world class 200-seat theater and post-production facility currently under construction in New York City. |
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Sheridan Seyfried is a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He completed his undergraduate degree at the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Edward Aldwell, Richard Danielpour, Jennifer Higdon and Ned Rorem. Upon graduating from Curtis he received the Alfredo Casella Award in Composition. His diverse body of work includes orchestral, chamber, solo, and film music, and he has received performances throughout the world in major venues, including Prague’s Rudolfinum, Vienna’s Radio Symphony Hall and Salzburg’s Mozarteum. His music has been performed by artists including Ida Kavafian, Anne-Marie McDermott, Steve Tenenbom, and Peter Wiley and by orchestras including the Minnesota Orchestra. In 2001, Seyfried received an ASCAP award for his string quartet, Pro and Contra, and the following year he was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
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| The recipient of a 2006 Presser Music Award, Sheridan Seyfried has been Composer-in-residence at the Music From Angel Fire (NM) festival and with the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, and has appeared at the Chamber Music Northwest (OR) festival. Seyfried has frequently performed his own music, most recently in recital at Washington’s Kennedy Center with violinist Stephanie Jeong. He is currently working on a commission for organist Paul Jacobs. Seyfried is also a member of the musical studies faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music. |
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Born in Seoul, Korea, cellist Jonah Kim moved to the United States to begin his musical studies at seven years of age. After a brief period of instruction from his father, he was accepted to the Juilliard School with full scholarship. During his first year at Juilliard, world-renowned cellist Janos Starker invited him to play at Indiana University and remarked, "Jonah is an exceptional talent. He is at the top of his generation". At only ten years of age, he was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied under Peter Wiley (Guarneri Quartet), solo cellist Lynn Harrell, and Orlando Cole. Kim made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2002 with Maestro Wolfgang Sawallisch and has since appeared with the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra among others. As a recitalist, he has performed in major venues such as the Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.), Kimmel Center (Philadelphia), and the Kravis Center (West Palm Beach, FL). He has been broadcast on radio for WHYY, WITF, and WXEL, as well as on television for NBC and CBS. |
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Born in Seoul, Korea, violinist Sin-Kyu Lee holds a Bachelor’s degree from The Juilliard School, and currently is studying at the same school for a Master’s degree under Toby Appel. He has participated in the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Sarasota Music Festival. Mr. Lee is a winner of Five Towns Young Artist Competition, and the Sae-Jong Competition.He has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Paul Hall, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, and Barge Music as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra principal/member. Scholarships received include the Herman Karpel Scholarship, Romayne Leader Frank Charitable Foundation, Lillian Fuchs Scholarship, Juilliard Alumni Scholarship, Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship, and the A.H. Kuhn Memorial Scholarship.
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Violinist Ari Streisfeld began playing the violin at age six and grew up studying with Philadelphia Orchestra members Paul Arnold and Yayoi Numazawa. He received his Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music studying with Zvi Zeitlin and his Master’s degree from Northwestern University studying with Almita Vamos. He was a member of Dal Niente and has worked with composers Steven Mackey, Bernard Rands, Robert Morris, Ricardo Zohn Muldoon, and David Liptak. Ari attended the Music Academy of the West, New York String Orchestra Seminar, Kent/Blossom Music Festival, and the Lucerne Festival Academy. He was a recipient of an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award and currently resides in Cambridge, MA while pursuing his Doctorate of Musical Arts at Boston University studying with Peter Zazofsky.
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