Sejong Music Competition Winners Concert Performance- required piece
"Dorajie" (도라지) by Rhee Haun
Gallia Kastner, violin
Milana Pavchinskaya, piano
(Violin Junior Division 1st Place, 1/13/2008)
Ganz Hall, Chicago Jan 13, 2008
About the Composer:
Rhee Haun was born in Seoul, Korea. Resident of Wichita, Kansas. She studied music at the Seoul Art High School in Korea and music composition at Wichita State University. Earlier works have been registered with the US Library of Congress.
About the Music:
Dorajie (도라지) is the Korean name of the Bellflower. The root of the flower is used to make a side vegetable dish. Korean ladies like to pick the roots, so they can make Dorajie namul. It is a well known Korean folk song, and I composed for violin with piano accompaniment. Use of the major and the minor key gives the light and shade, but never too shaded. It remains fresh and pure as a young lady. Use of three beats, one of Korean’s common folk rhythms creates the dancing movements.
Gallia Kastner, age 10, started private lesson with Betty Haag-Kuhnke at five and a half performing in local events and then traveling with the violin ensemble and as soloist to Colorado, New Mexico and Lincoln Centre in New York as well as performing at WFMT, Channel 11, and WGN Chicago. Currently, she studies with Almita and Roland Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago and participates in the Junior Academy Orchestra and chamber music coached by Marta Aznavoorian from Lincoln Trio. This year she won 1st place in the Junior I Division at the 2007 Chinese Fine Arts Society and 2007 Sejong Competition. She participates in the swim team and sings in youth choir at St James church.