Pianist Wu Han, violinist Pamela Frank and cellist Yeesun Kim will perform as a trio on Monday, March 16, at 8 p.m. in Union College's Memorial Chapel.
This is the trio's tenth annual appearance in the Schenectady Museum-Union College chamber music series. Since first performing at Union as a trio 10 years ago, each of these artists has found her own international career, but each year they find one day to return to Union as a trio and give a unique concert for this Series. This year the program is to include Haydn's Trio in A major, Hoboken XV: 18, Schumann's Trio in d minor, Op. 63, and Beethoven's popular “Archduke Trio: Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97.
Pianist Wu Han is one of today's most talked-about classical artists and has garnered a reputation as a performer whose impassioned music-making and thrilling style are bringing new life to the concert stage. She has performed at New York's Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Metropolitan Museum; Washington's Kennedy Center and Library of Congress; Boston's Symphony Hall and Cleveland's Severance Hall. The Washington Post has called her a “firebrand pianist, in the spirit of a young romantic.”
American violinist Pamela Frank, an internationally-famed soloist and recording artist, has established an outstanding international reputation across an unusually varied range of performing activity. In addition to her extensive schedule of engagements with prestigious orchestras throughout the world and her recitals on the leading concert stages, she is regularly sought after as a chamber music partner by today's most distinguished soloist and ensembles. Highlights for this season include the world premiere of a new concerto by Ellen Taafe Zwilich commissioned for her by Carnegie Hall, where she will perform with Hugh Wolff and the Orchestra of St. Luke's.
Cellist Yeesun Kim, a native of Seoul, Korea, is a founding member of the Borromeo String Quartet, which won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1991. Since then, the group has performed at many prestigious concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, Washington's Kennedy Center and Jordon Hall in Boston. Yeesun Kim tours with the Borromeo Quartet and also gives frequent concerts with violinist Nicholas Kitchen, her partner in the Quartet as well as in marriage.
Memorial Chapel is located near the center of the Union Campus. Parking is available on campus and on nearby sidestreets.
Tickets, at $15 each ($7 for students), are available in advance at the Schenectady Museum (518) 382-7890 and at the door at 7 p.m. For more information, call 372-3651.