유자 왕 & 이구데스만과 주 카네기 잰켈홀 협연(2/11)

Yuja Wang, Igudesman & Joo

The Clone

Monday, February 11, 2019 7:30 PM  Zankel Hall

Igudesman & Joo and Yuja Wang by Julia Wesely

*피아니스트 주형기(Igudesman & Joo)씨 인터뷰<2014, Inside Korea, The New York Times>

http://www.nyculturebeat.com/insideKorea/InsideKorea_2014.01.31_vol_07.pdf

Internationally-acclaimed pianist Yuja Wang continues her season-long Perspectives series this February, launching into performances that offer creative collaborations, reunions with recital partners and artists who have influenced her career, and a night of classical music comedy—all displaying the pianist’s eclectic interests and musical versatility.

Ms. Wang returns to Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Wednesday, February 6 at 8:00 p.m., reuniting with violinist and frequent recital partner Leonidas Kavakos. The duo will perform a program to include Brahms’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100; Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 80; Bartók’s Rhapsody No. 1 for Violin and Piano; and Richard Strauss’s Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 18. The concert will be broadcast live on WQXR 105.9 FM in New York as part of the Carnegie Hall Live radio broadcast and digital series, also heard by listeners worldwide via wqxr.org and carnegiehall.org/wqxr. Produced by WQXR and Carnegie Hall and co-hosted by WQXR’s Jeff Spurgeon and Clemency Burton-Hill, select Carnegie Hall Live broadcasts featured throughout the season include special digital access to the broadcast team from backstage and in the control room, connecting national and international fans to the music and to each other.

The following week, on Monday, February 11 at 7:30 p.m. Ms. Wang appears in Zankel Hall for a night of lighthearted musical comedy with virtuoso instrumentalists and jokesters Igudesman & Joo.

On Wednesday, April 10 at 8:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, Ms. Wang joins another esteemed colleague, cellist Gautier Capuçon, for a duo recital featuring Franck’s Violin Sonata in A Major (transcr. for cello) and Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19.

Ms. Wang’s Perspectives series concludes in May with two concerts with the New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy, led by Wang’s longtime collaborator and fellow Perspectives artist Michael Tilson Thomas. On Wednesday, May 1 at 8:00 p.m. she plays Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 5 in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on a program that also includes the New York premiere of a new work by Julia Wolfe as well as Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. The following evening, Thursday, May 2 at 7:30 p.m., Ms. Wang plays the New York premiere of a work by Michael Tilson Thomas for solo piano. Also on the program is the New York premiere of Tilson Thomas’s Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind written for and featuring soprano Measha Brueggergosman, as well as Schubert’s String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810, "Death and the Maiden" (arr. for string orchestra by Mahler).

Yuja Wang

Born in Beijing, Yuja Wang was encouraged to pursue music at an early age, starting piano lessons at the age of six and studying at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music. She moved to Canada in 1999 and became the youngest student ever enrolled at Mount Royal Conservatory. Ms. Wang was appointed as a Steinway Artist in 2001 and accepted a place at the Curtis Institute of Music to begin studying piano with Gary Graffman the following year. After graduating from Curtis in 2008, she went on to be an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon recording artist, prompting Gramophone to name her as its 2009 Young Artist of the Year after the debut of her first album. The following year, Ms. Wang was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. She earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for her 2011 recording of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Claudio Abbado.

Igudesman & Joo

Millions of YouTube viewers can’t be wrong. Well, they can—but in this case, they aren’t, and they’ve turned the inspired lunacy of Igudesman & Joo into an internet and international sensation. Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo have taken the world by storm with their unique and hilarious theatrical concerts. Combining comedy with music, their clips on YouTube have gathered more than 45 million hits. They have appeared on many of the world’s most esteemed stages and have been invited to perform with orchestras that include the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

Aleksey and Hyung-ki met at the age of 12 at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England. Thanks to a portion of fish and chips, they soon began creating their groundbreaking shows. Since then, many of the world’s most respected musicians have asked to be included in the duo’s skits of musical mayhem, such as tonight’s performance of The Clone with Yuja Wang.

Besides touring their duo shows A Little Nightmare Music, And Now Mozart, and Play It Again, Igudesman & Joo frequently collaborate with symphony orchestras on their titles Clash of the Soloists, UpBeat, and BIG Nightmare Music, which will be performed this season with the Nashville Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra.

Igudesman & Joo have appeared in several films, including Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Classical Music, Pianomania, and the award-winning Noseland. They also have teamed up with actor John Malkovich for their CD You Just Have to Laugh and new show The Music Critic. They have shared the stage with artists from Billy Joel to Joshua Bell. As composers, they have been commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and others. They have collectively released more than 50 publications with Universal Edition, and their film and concert music is performed all over the world.

The fall of 2019 will see the publication of the duo’s book about creativity, titled Save the World. They recently introduced Music Traveler—an app for reserving practice rooms—to New York City.

Aleksey Igudesman performs with a bow made by Boston-based bow maker Benoit Roland, and on a Santo Seraphin violin from the year 1717, which is kindly loaned to him by Erste Bank. He uses handmade strings by Thomastik Infeld. Hyung-ki Joo is a Steinway Artist. Igudesman & Joo wear clothing by Cleofe Finati.