GYPSY IMPRESSIONS TRAILER 2
SATURDAY, AUGUST 30TH, 2008, 8:00PM RECITAL
WITH THOMAS YEE, PIANO
D.F. COOK RECITAL HALL
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR, CANADA
Tickets at Holy Heart Heart Theatre Box Office: 709-579-4474
GYPSY IMPRESSIONS TRAILER 1
AUGUST 30TH, 2008 RECITAL
WITH THOMAS YEE, PIANO
D.F. COOK RECITAL HALL
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR, CANADA
Having given solo concert tours across Canada, Hawaii, and Europe, violinist Lynn Kuo has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras championing both the standard repertoire as well as the contemporary.
As a proponent of new music, Lynn has given numerous world premieres in Canada and Europe of compositions written for her by composers Michael Pepa, Dennis Patrick, Katarina Miljkovic, Daniel Foley, and Elizabeth Raum.
In both 2005 and 2007, Lynn toured Eastern Europe giving both solo and chamber music performances featuring the works of Canadian composer Michael Pepa. As head of the Les AMIS Ensemble, a flexible chamber group that performs under the auspices of Les AMIS Concerts, she will be returning to Europe in 2009 to premiere a new Pepa work to be composed for the 2009 Music Biennale Zagreb Festival in Croatia.
In September 2007, in Barrie, Ontario’s Colours of Music Festival, Lynn also presented the world premiere of Elizabeth Raum’s Phoenix with the renowned Nexus percussion ensemble. In June 2008, Lynn will also join Croatia’s Cantus Ensemble in premiering another Michael Pepa work at Toronto’s soundaXis Festival
Originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Lynn is currently based in Toronto, Canada where she maintains a busy performing schedule playing as recitalist and chamber musician, as well as with the Canadian Opera Company, Toronto Symphony, Via Salzburg chamber orchestra and in her role as Assistant Concertmaster of the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra.
Having guest-taught and lectured at several Canadian universities, Lynn also serves as a chamber music teaching assistant at the University of Toronto where she has joined the first Doctorate of Musical Arts class of 2011. She studies with both Erika Raum and Mayumi Seiler.
Lynn performs on a 1904 Riccardo Antoniazzi violin and Hill bow generously on loan from Michael and Steven Pepa.
a super-song, a mega-composition, something that astonishes people, that makes them sob, laugh and rejoice. No “sophisticated” art but no cheap entertainment either. Take the best of pop, jazz, tango, opera, operetta, klezmer, soul, blues, minimalist music, virtuosic violin-music (Paganini, Wienawsky, Sarasate) and so on, or compose your own style. Everything is fine as long as the audience is crazy about it.
Concerning the playing technique the composition is expected to be sophisticated, challenging and unconventional. It is expected to combine new effects with innovative sounds and hot rhythms.
Instrumentation: 2 violins
Duration: approximately 5 minutes of music
Awards: 1. Prize: 3000 Euros Heinrich-Vetter Preis 2. Prize: 2000 Euros Bourgier-Seisser-Cleve-Werhahn-Preis 3. Prize: 1000 Euros Pro Musica Viva Maria Strecker-Daelen Preis 4. Prize: 400€ Additionally, there will be two extra prizes of the PE-Förderkreis for students of music: each consists of 250 Euros!
Deadline: 01.07.2009
Course of events: With the professional counselling of Prof. Sidney Corbett we will determine a preselection (in total six compositions) among all the compositions sent in. That preselection is presented to the audience at the concert of awardees (on the 18th of September 2009 at the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim). The audience is going to vote for the awarding.
I must say you play beautifully! I'm in awe of your talent. Thank you for your kind words about my music. The music on the background of my profile is an old violin piece of mine from 10years ago.
Thanks again for the friendship and I hope to catch you live someday.
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