Vivian Jin, piano
(Piano Junior division 2nd place 12/13/2010)
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video length 1 min 50 sec
Lutkin Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA
Jan 9, 2011
Vivian Jin, age 13, started piano lessons at the age of seven and has been studying with Brenda Huang for more than two years. She has won awards in numerous competitions, including the Society of American Musicians, the Chinese Fine Arts Society and Illinois State Music Teachers Association. In May 2010, she won the second place in the Emilio del Rosario Concerto Competition Junior division, which gave her the opportunity to perform with the Harper Symphony Orchestra. She is currently an eighth grader at Scullen Middle School in Naperville, where she plays the piano in the school Jazz Ensemble.
 Misook Kim received her B.A. with the honor of Cum Laude from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. After finishing her “New Star Concert” sponsored by the Cho-sun Newspaper, she entered the graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin where she completed her M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in composition and the certificate of piano performance. Reviewer Mike Greenberg, writing in the San Antonio Express-News, called the composer ‘a bold and unrepentant modernist’. He also has mentioned ‘each of her works presented thus far has impressed with its fearless modernism, its concision and its strong individual profile’. Kim has performed as a composer as well as a pianist in various concerts of her own works from solo to larger ensemble compositions throughout the States and Korea. Including commissions for the MUSICOPIA Concert, Olmos Ensemble, she has won International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) Judith Zaimont Award and the Long Island Arts Council International Composition Competition in 2007. She was a former faculty member at The University of the Incarnate Word and Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. She had also served as a music director at KUMC. In Fall 2006, Kim joined the faculty at the Conservatory of Music at Wheaton College, IL. The compositional plot of Yin-Yang (Infinity) reflects the harmony and balance of the Korean flag and comes from simple melodies of folk songs from Jeju Island. It is strictly written in a 5-note scale, “Kye-Myun-Jo”, with extended use of pedal to express the movement of the universe. |