9th Annual Sejong Music Competition Winners Concert
Joy of Ong-He-Ya by Misook Kim
Hannah White, violin
Milana Pavchinskaya,
piano
(Violin Senior division Second Place
12/2/2012)
video length 2 min 45 sec
Claudia Cassidy Theather, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL USA
Jan 6, 2013
Hannah White, age 12, has been playing the violin five years. Hannah is a second year merit scholarship recipient of the Music Institute of Chicago's Academy program for gifted pre-college musicians where she currently studies with MIC artist faculty member Hye-Sun Lee. Hannah is also in the Senior MYSO Symphony, MYSO Chamber Ensembles Program, WAYO Orchestra three years, WAYO Chamber Orchestra, and Eastbrook Symphony Orchestra.
She received a gold award from KMMTA for three consecutive years. Hannah won the Milwaukee Symphony Bach Double Competition for which she performed with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Hannah also won the MYSO Concerto Competition and performed with the orchestra. She won the DePaul Concerto Competition where she performed her solo with the Oistrach Symphony Orchestra and was featured on 98.7 WFMT's Introductions Program. She is a two time winner of the the MIC Academy Concerto Competition where she performs her solo with the Academy String Orchestra. She won first place in the Elementary Division of the Sejong Music Competition in 2010. In addition, Hannah has placed in the Society of American Musicians Competition, Frank Stehlik Memorial Scholarship Contest, Lake Country Baroque Competition, Chinese Fine Arts Society Music Competition, and received Honorable Mention at the Madison Youth Concerto Competition.
As featured guest, Hannah was invited two consecutive years to perform for Governors and Delegates at the U.S. - China Chamber of Commerce Annual Gala. Hannah has performed at Milwaukee and Chicago Area businesses.
Misook Kim received her B.M. 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. JOY of Ong-He-Ya
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