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Grace Yeo plays at St Martin-in-the-Fields

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by Philip Gowman on 12 March, 2010

in Events news, Western classical music

Grace Yeo will be giving a lunchtime recital at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ on Friday 19 March, 1-2pm
Programme:
Schubert Piano Sonata in A major, D.664
Ravel Ondine from Gaspard de la Nuit
Schumann Piano Sonata in G minor, Op.22
Biography
Grace Yeo was born in Seoul, Korea in 1986 and commenced her piano studies at the age of [...]

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Sulki Yu with the Thames Philharmonic

5 February 2010 Events news
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The Thames Philharmonic and Sulki Yu at the Landmark in Teddington on
Saturday 20 February 2010 at 7:30pm
Liszt: Les Preludes
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy Op 46
Sibelius: Symphony No 3 in C major Op 52
Conductor: Byung-yun Yu
Landmark Arts Centre: Ferry Road, Teddington, TW11 9NN
Tickets £10, £8 (concessions), £20 (Family: 2 adults and 2 children under 16)
Online: http://www.wegottickets.com/
Box office: at [...]

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Ji-Yeoun You lunchtime recital at LSE

28 January 2010 Events news
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Ji-Yeoun You piano
Thursday 25 February 2010
1:05pm
Shaw Library, Old Building
Beethoven Eroica Variations, Op.35
Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit
A first prize winner in several international competitions, she gives concerts round Europe and teaches music at Berlin University of the Arts.

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LKL Weekly Tweets, 2010-01-25

25 January 2010 Bae Doo-na
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Finally finished my top 10 K-films of the decade post. It took forever. 2003 was a good year! Post will be up on Tuesday. 12:57 PM Jan 22nd from web
Big article on Kimchi going global in the Washington Post http://bit.ly/89sKtf (HT: Marmot) 1:16 PM Jan 22nd from bit.ly
Trying to figure out why LKL is offline [...]

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Two recitals by Grace Yeo

24 January 2010 Events news
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Grace Yeo has two piano recitals, on Wednesday and Thursday this week:
(1) 1.15pm on Wednesday 27 January 2010 at St. Martin within Ludgate
Ludgate Hill, London EC4
Mozart: 9 Variations on a minuet by Duport in D major, K.573
Mendelssohn: Venezianisches Gondellied in F-sharp minor, Op.30 No.6
Chopin: Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op.60
Schumann: Piano Sonata no.2 in G minor, [...]

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Sulki Yu in the QEH foyer

15 January 2010 Events news
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Violinist Sulki Yu plays in a free foyer recital at the Queen Elizabeth Hall today, Friday 15 January, at 5pm.
Programme as follows:
Bela Bartok: Violin Sonata No.1
Witold Lutoslawski: Subito for violin & piano
Sulki Yu violin
Elizabeth Rossiter piano
Part of the Park Lane Group Young Artists New Year Series
LKL correspondent Colin Bartlett comments:
Judging by Sulki Yu’s performances last [...]

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Cho Jung-yoon at St Dunstan-in-the-West

7 December 2009 Events news
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News of an upcoming lunchtime recital:
Jung-Yoon Cho (violin) with Tadashi Imai (piano)
Wed Dec 9th 2009, 1:15 pm
St Dunstan-in-the-West, 186a Fleet St, London, EC4A 2HR
Programme
* J.S. Bach: Solo Sonata No. 2 – Grave and Allegro
* Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata Op. 12 No. 2 A major
[...]

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Handel’s Messiah – the Mozart cover version

30 November 2009 Events news
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The holiday season would not be complete without a performance of Handel’s Messiah. On 10 December there is a rare opportunity to hear a Messiah with a difference: translated into German and re-orchestrated by Mozart for a Viennese performance in 1789, 47 years after its Dublin premiere. The Elysian Singers perform with the Kensington Chamber [...]

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Sulki Yu at the Wigmore

20 November 2009 Events news
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News of an upcoming recital at the Wigmore featuring talented Korean violinist Sulki Yu.
PLG YOUNG ARTISTS
Monday 30 November 2009 at 7.30pm
Sulki Yu violin
Chiao-Ying Chang piano
Zalas Trio
Carlota Amargós violin
Beatrix Graf clarinet
Nikolaos Stavlas piano
PROGRAMME
Ysaÿe: Sonata No. 3 ‘Ballade’ for solo violin
Edwin Roxburgh: Sonata for violin and piano (world première)
Peter Dickinson: American Trio for violin, clarinet and piano
Bartók: [...]

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Kim So-Ock at the Wigmore

20 November 2009 Events news
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Tuesday 1 December 2009 – 7:30 PM Wigmore Hall

Performers
So-Ock Kim violin
Sunwook Kim piano
Programme
Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Op. 96
Chausson Poème Op. 25
Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor Op. 82
Ravel Tzigane
About this concert
Both natives of South Korea, So-Ock Kim is a previous gold medallist of the Shell LSO competition and [...]

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Sarah Chang plays Bruch

23 September 2009 Events news
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Korean American violinist Sarah Chang will be appearing in a programme of popular classics at the Albert Hall tomorrow night in a charity concert put on by Classic FM. Alex James from Blur will be guest conducting the Northern Sinfonia orchestra in the theme from the Onedin Line. Chang will be playing everyone’s favourite fiddle [...]

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Kim Ka-hyun at St Vedast, Foster Lane

19 September 2009 Events news
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News of a piano recital organised by the British Korean Law Association, in association with the Anglo-Korean Society.

KA HYUN KIM (PIANO)
Thursday, 29th October 2009 at 6:30pm
at
St Vedast-alias-Foster Church, Foster Lane, Cheapside, London EC2V 6HH [Map]
(nearest underground station: St Paul’s)
by kind permission of the Rector and Churchwardens

Programme:
Debussy: Suite Bergamasque
Chopin: Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante (op [...]

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Younee and the British Invasion

17 September 2009 Interviews and features
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Younee, the versatile singer-songwriter-pianist from Korea, is in London to launch her new album and play the Pizza Express Jazz Club. She takes a break from her rehearsal schedule to talk to LKL about her musical influences.

It was not a good start to the interview. I had selected the Wigmore Hall bar as a good, [...]

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A new work enters the Cello repertoire

20 August 2009 Concert reviews
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Last Thursday saw the world premiere of the cello concerto by Unsuk Chin, a BBC commission. Chin, who was born in Korea in 1961, has been composer-in-residence for both the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. She is a careful worker: the new work was originally scheduled for the 2007 Prom season, but [...]

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Storm and Stress at Goldsmiths

7 August 2009 Crossfields
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At the opening of the Crossfields exhibition last week at the KCC Ku Hyeyoung treated us to a preview of a performance she is doing with Kora Terao next week at Goldsmiths. Dressed in a dramatic black creation she stood under a muslin-covered chandelier like an animated statue, declaiming, miming, performing to the music of [...]

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