02/09/2010 @ 6:15 p.m.: Music @ Main

Wonkak Kim, clarinet

Award-winning clarinetist Wonkak Kim has dazzled audiences with playing that is “virtuosic and stirring” (Journal de Morges, Switzerland). Collaborating with Mr. Kim is pianist Grace Eun-Hye Choi.

Program Selections

Gioacchino ROSSINI : Introduction, Theme and Variations (1812)

Edward LEIN : September

Alban BERG : 4 Stücke, Op. 5

François DEVIENNE : Sonata in E-flat, Op. 28, No. 2

Charles-Marie WIDOR : Introduction et Rondo, Op. 72

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Hailed by critics around the world as “excellent” (The Washington Post) and as a “tour de force” (Classical Voice of North Carolina), clarinetist Wonkak Kim has quickly established himself at the forefront of his generation, concertizing throughout the United States, Costa Rica, South Korea and Europe. Mr. Kim, who began studying clarinet with Kenneth Lee at the age of fifteen, has been a featured soloist with more than a dozen orchestras, performing concertos by Mozart, Nielsen, Spohr, Weber, and Copland. As a prizewinner of numerous national and international competitions, he has appeared in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, German Embassy in Washington D.C., and Constitution Hall.

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