Whitney Jin, piano
(Piano Junior division Third Place and Best Interpretation 12/10/2011)
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video length 1 min 47 sec
Lutkin Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA
Jan 8, 2012
Whitney Jin is a 12 year old seventh grader attending Scullen Middle School in Naperville, Illinois. She currently studies piano under the guidance of Brenda Huang.
Whitney has placed in many competitions, including 1st in ISMTA District Audition 2011, 1st in 2010 and 2011 Awards Competition, 1st in 2011 Music Festival in Honor of Confucius, and 2nd in 2011 SAM Competitions.
Other than practicing piano, she enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time with friends and family.
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. |
