Jasmine Choi, guest artist
 

Date & Time

Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 5:30pm

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Monthly Concerts: Jasmine Choi, guest artist
Mariko Furukawa, piano Program Afternoon of a Faun for flute and piano Claude Debussy (1862-1918)   Sonata in E Major Op.15 for flute and piano (US premiere performance) I. Allegretto grazioso II. Adagio III. Intermezzo :Allegretto con moto IV. Grave - Allegro assai Richard Rössler (1880-1962)   Intermission Garak for...
Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center 55 Lexington Avenue (entrance on East 25th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues)
 

Location

Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center
55 Lexington Avenue
(entrance on East 25th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues)

Jasmine Choi, guest artist

Mariko Furukawa, piano

Program

Afternoon of a Faun for flute and piano

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

 

Sonata in E Major Op.15 for flute and piano
(US premiere performance)
I. Allegretto grazioso
II. Adagio
III. Intermezzo :Allegretto con moto
IV. Grave - Allegro assai

Richard Rössler (1880-1962)

 

Intermission

Garak for flute and piano

Isang Yun (1917-1995)

 

Zoom Tube for flute solo

Ian Clarke (b. 1964)

 

Four Souvenirs for flute and piano
I. Samba
II. Tango
III. Tin Pan Alley
IV. Square Dance

Paul Schoenfield (b. 1947)


Ms. Choi's appearance is made possible in part by Straubinger Flutes, Inc. and Ruth Baker. Program subject to change.

Admission: $25 at the door ($15 for students/seniors); free to NYFC members.


Jasmine at February Concert

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Jasmine Choi

Note: See NYFC's interview with Jasmine in its Nov. 2012 newsletter.

Hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “a major talent with a robust tone,” Jasmine Choi is an active soloist, chamber musician, and full-time orchestral musician. Choi has recently joined the Vienna Symphony(Wiener Symphoniker) as principal flute under the music director Fabio Luisi, and had served as associate principal flute of the Cincinnati Symphony under the music director Paavo Jarvi. She has been critically acclaimed on international stages for her rich tone, technical brilliance, superb musicianship, and charismatic stage presence since an early age.

Nominated by Symphony magazine as one of "America's Emerging Artists," Jasmine Choi was presented on the "Rising Stars" series at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall presented by the Astral Artists. Recent performance highlights include solo recitals at Wigmore Hall in London, Konzerthaus Schubert Saal in Vienna, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Seoul Arts Center in Seoul, and has appeared as soloist in the Musikverein Golden Hall in Vienna, Konzerthaus Mozart Saal in Vienna, Dvorak and Smetana Halls in Prague, and Disney Hall in Los Angeles. She has performed as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Juilliard Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Salzburg Mozarteum, Czech Philharmonic Chamber, Seoul Philharmonic, among many others. Choi was invited as soloist for the National Flute Association (NFA)’s 40th anniversary in Las Vegas, and was highly celebrated with her solo performances including the opening gala concert and the closing ceremony, as well as a solo recital and also served as a jury member of their Young Artist Competition.

Born in Seoul and raised in Daejon, South Korea, Jasmine Choi is from a musical family and began her musical studies on the violin and piano at an early age. She began playing the flute at the age of nine, and one year later gave her first public performance with the Chongju Chamber Orchestra in Haydn's Concerto in D Major. Her professional solo career in Korea began at the age of fourteen, and she has been appearing as soloist in Korea numerous times a year. Her live performances and recordings are frequently broadcasted in Korea on national television and radio. At 16, Jasmine Choi came to the United States when she was accepted to study at the Curtis Institute of Music on a full-scholarship. The legendary Julius Baker has called her "a huge sensation," and she studied with him for four years until his death in 2003. Jasmine Choi holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School where she studied with Jeffrey Khaner. Choi was the winner of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Greenfield Competition, Yamaha Young Performing Artists, Astral Artists, and the Concerto Competition at Juilliard School, which subsequently put her as soloist for the season opening concert of the school’s 100th anniversary under the conductor James DePreist.

Adventurous in expanding the repertoire for flute, Jasmine Choi performs her own arrangements of the violin concertos of Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, as well as numerous violin and cello sonatas. Her arrangements of the Bach’s Double Concerto for two violins and the Monti’s Czardas have been published by the Falls House Press USA. Also active on the contemporary classical music scene, her commissions include works by Korean-American composers Solbong Kim and James Ra, and she frequently performs the works of Isang Yun. More recently, a well-known flutist and composer Gary Schocker dedicated a piece for her called Winter Jasmine, in celebration of Choi’s new 14K gold flute handmade by David Straubinger. The piece was included in her recent CD of the "Claude Bolling Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio", among with Paul Schoenfield’s Four Souvenirs and Yiruma’s Wait There, released by Sony Classical Korea. Sony also previously released Choi’s first album, Jasmine Choi Plays Mozart, recorded to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, to great acclaim. Her next album "Fantasy", a virtuoso flute music collection, was a critical success as well.

Choi had served as a member of both the Astral Winds (woodwind quintet) and Trio Morisot (flute, viola, harp) from 2004 to 2010, and enjoys playing chamber music in numerous different settings. She has attended the Marlboro Music, Pacific Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, Music in the Vineyards, National Orchestral Institute, and Carnegie Hall's Professional Workshop under Michael Tilson Thomas.

Choi’s 2012-2013 schedule includes a recital tour in New York including giving master classes at Curtis Institute of Music, the Julliard School, Manhattan School of Music, NYU, a numerous recital and concerto tour in Korea, and the two concerto tours in Europe including a gala concert at Musikvererin in Vienna.

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