Karisa Chiu, violin
Inah Chiu, piano
(Violin Junior division 3rd place & Best Interpretation 12/13/2010)
Flash movie Format
video length 2 min 24 sec
Lutkin Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA
Jan 9, 2011
Eleven year old Karisa Chiu is a sixth grader at Christian Liberty Academy in Arlington Heights. She started the violin at the age of two and studies with her father Cornelius Chiu who is a violinist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Karisa was the first prize winner in the 2007 youth division and the 2010 junior one division in the Chinese Fine Arts Society Competition. She was awarded second place in the 2008 and 2010 primary division and the 2010 junior division in the Society of American Musicians Competition. In 2010 she also received high honorable mention in the DePaul University Concerto Competition. She has performed with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in outreach programs and in Parties of Note Concerts. Karisa is an avid soccer player with the Rolling Meadows traveling soccer team and enjoys playing the piano, reading, and playing with her dog.
Mr. Sheen has been active in writing music in many different styles, including western European music, traditional Korean music, children’s music, film soundtracks, and musicals. He graduated Seoul National University and received his Master’s degree at the New York University Graduate School of Music. He collaborated with pianist Jung Hee Han in the album Blue Bicycle, which later received a critical acclaim. He started the new style music movement “Han-ma-dang” and “Music Composers-ma-dang.” In 2002, Mr. Sheen collaborated with writer-illustrator Jae-soo Liu in the CD-Book Yellow Umbrella, which was named as one of the 10 best illustrated books by the New York Times. Japanese pianist Takako Takahashi made a CD of Mr. Sheen’s music in Japan. He received numerous awards including the Best Young Artists of the Year award from the Korean Ministry of Culture & Tourism in 2003, and the Grand Prize of the Year in composers and conductors categories from the Korean Broadcasting Service (KBS) in 2004. Mr. Sheen is a board member of the Association of Korean Musicians, President of the Composer’s Association (Jahk-gok-ma-dang), and Co-president of the Children’s Arts Production. Currently he is a lecturer at the Korean National University of Arts and Seoul National University Graduate School of Music. |
Dong-il Sheen was born in Seoul, Korea. He was described as “a quiet revolutionary who broke the barrier of classical music” (Culture and Me magazine 2006). In a 2002 article in the New Music Composition and Critics journal, Professor Young-Han Heo of the Korean National University of Arts wrote, “Dong-il Sheen is a composer who filled the huge void in our lives with a new style of creative music. He explored music style that was ignored by other composers and now firmly established his own style.”Yang-San-Do is a folk song from the Kyunggi Province. It originated during the late Chosun dynasty, sung by construction workers during the renovation of the Kyung Bok Palace in Seoul. Later on this tune was developed into a sun sori (folk song), sung with many variations of the verses. The rhythm of the song is in three beats.
The main melody of this piece is played by violin while the piano plays only the accompaniment. It begins with the unmodified Yang-San-Do tune to introduce the audience to the original song, before the violin melody expands to a new level as it explores the melodic variations of the theme while keeping the general, upbeat feeling of the Yang-San-Do tune.