1CPC Academy of Fine Arts

1CPC Academy of Fine
Arts
2012 Concert Series
presents
Dunwoody Chamber Ensemble
William Pu, violin; Qiao Solomon, violin;
Amy Chang, viola; Karen Freer, cello;
Wooyoung EIIie Choi, piano
ln Concert
Friday, September 14, TzOO PM
lohns Creek Presbyterian Church
10950 Bell Road
lohns Creek, Georgia 3OO97
www.jcpcusa.org
Welcome
Friends of the
Aru,
On behalf of our senior pastor, Rev. Dr. C. Gray Norsworthy, the session,
and all members of the Johns Creek Presbyterian Church community,
I would like to personally welcome you to this evening's concert, the fifth
of the ICPC Academy of Fine Aru 2012 series. We are delighted that
you've chosen to ioin us this evening and consider it a great privilege to
share this evening of music with you.
With humble gratitude,
AfiicinWar[
Director of Worship 8t Arts, lohns Creek Presbyterian Church
Program
Five Pieces for two violins and
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Dimitri Shoshtakovich
Arranged by Levon Atovmyan
Prelude
Gavotte
Elegy
Waltz
Polka
William Pu, uioliry Qiao Solomon, uiolin
Piano Quintet in E llat Maiory Op.
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Robert Schumann
Allegro brillante
In modo d'una marcia. Un poco largamente
Scherzo: Molto vivace
AIIegro ma non troppo
William Pu, uiolin; Qiao Solomon, uiolin
Amy Chang viola; Karen Freer; cello
Wooyoung EIIie Choi, piano
Bios
of performers
Amy Chang uiola
Amy chang was born in Taiwan, where she won the Taiwan National young
Aftist Violin Competition at the age of 16. She was a full scholarship
student both through her undergraduate and graduate studies at Rice
University, and she received degrees in music performance from Rice.
Ms. Chang played with the Houston Symphony, Houston Grand Opera, and
Houston Ballet orchestra for 12 years before moving to Atlanta. she has
made numerous recordings as violinist and violist with the Houston Grand
opera and Houston and Atlanta symphony orchestras, including La Boheme
with Roberu spano conducting and has toured under such distinguished
conductors as Christoph Eschenbach and Robeft Spano.
An active chamber music musician, Ms. chang
was a frequent guest aftist at
the Texas Music Festival and has performed in numerous chamber music
concerts in both Houston and Atlanta. Ms. Chang is currently a member of
the Atlanta Ballet orchestra as a violist and has played with the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra and the Atlanta Opera as violinist and violist.
Ms. chang has taught violin at the lnterlochen Music Festival and has been
invited as viola faculty for the Asian Youth Orchestra in Hong Kong every
summer. Her teachers have included Camilla Wick, Emanuel Borok, Wayne
Brook, and lames Dunham.
Wooyoung Ellie Choi, piano
Dr. Choi has been teaching piano, serving as an accompanist, and playing the
organ for college events at Agnes Scott since 2OO2. She received her
Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance with a minor in organ
performance from the Hugh Hodgson school of Music at the university of
Georgia, where she received her Bachelor of Music degree in composition
and completed her Master of Music degree in piano performance.
Dr. choi is the accompanist for the choral Guild of Atlanta, the organist at
Johns Creek Presbyterian Church, and has given reciuls both as a soloist and
as a collaborative artist. She was on the faculty at the lnternational Summer
Music lnstitute for singers at Ewha womans university in seour, Korea in
2o12. she has received the lohn Henry Dorminy piano schotarship and the
university of Georgia school of Music concerto competition Award.
Dr. choi is a member of the American Guild of organists and hords an
AGO Associate certificate.
Karen Freer; cello
Karen Freer won a position with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in 1998,
becoming assistant principal as a result of another audition in 2008.
Previously, she held positions with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and with
the Savannah Symphony as principal cello.
Originally from San Diego, she began piano lessons at the age of five. She
began cello lessons three years later when her piano teacher discovered she
had a good ear and recommended her husband, who proved to be an
excellent teacher. When she was eleven, she began commuting to weekly
lessons in Los Angeles with Eleonore Schoenfeld. She soloed with the San
Diego Symphony at age seventeen, having won their concefto competition,
playing the first movement of the Shostakovich Concerto.
Ms. Freer then attended lndiana University and the Eastman School of
Music, where she earned, respectively, her bachelors in music and a
concurrent performer's certificate, and a masters degree in music. Her
principal professors were lanos Starker and Paul Katz, but she has played in
master classes for many artists, including Ralph Kirshbaum, Zara Nelsova,
and Paul Tortelier.
Ms. Freer has attended several summer festivals, including four years at the
Aspen Music Festival, where she studied with David Finckel, among others.
She played two years with the New York String Orchestra under Alexander
Schneider, the second as principal, performing at Carnegie Hall and the
Kennedy Center. Currently, she attends the Teton Music Festival, where she
has gone every summer since 2006. She also teaches privately and at
Emory University since 1999.
William
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A native of Shanghai, China, William Pu is Associate Concertmaster of the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, in which he holds the endowed Charles
McKenzie Taylor Chair. Prior to ioining the ASO in 2OO2, he was a
member of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, where he was a first violinist
and frequent soloist. ln addition, he was a violinist with the Chinese
Virtuoso Orchestra.
Mr.
Pu earned his bachelor's degree from the Shanghai Conseruatory
of
Music and his master's degree from the University of Houston. Since
beginning his musical studies at the age of seven, he has studied with such
influential teachers as Shi-ShengZhen, Fredell Lac( and Camilla Wick.
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Last season,
Mr.
Pu performed the "Butterfly Lovers"
Violin Concerto,
composed by Gang Chen and Zhan-Hao He, with the Wroclaw Filharmonia
in Poland. He has taught master classes at Louisiana State Universiry the
University of Houston, and Texas AelM University.
He and his wife, Amy Chan& a former violinist with the Houston Grand
Opera and the Houston Ballet Orchestra, reside in Dunwoody with their two
children, Wilson and Alex.
Qiao Chen Solomon, uiolin
Qiao Chen Solomon performs as soloist, conductor, and chamber musician
throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. She has won numerous
competitions, including the 5th Liaoning Violin Competition (China), the
West Waterford Music and Drama Festival (lreland), and the MTNA
competition (U.S.). With the ARCO Chamber Orchestra, she performed as
featured soloist in Camegie Hall and recorded a CD of Vivaldi Violin
Concertos on the Art Classics label.
Dr. Solomon received the Doctor of Musical Aru degree in Violin
Performance with a minor in viola from the University of Ceorgia, where she
studied under violinist Levon Ambanzumian and violist Mark Neumann.
While at the universiry she served as concertmaster of the UGA Symphony
Orchestra, with which she performed as soloist in the Sibelius Violin
Concerto and assistant concertmaster of ARCO Chamber Orchestra.
Dr. Solomon also holds a Master of Arts in Violin Performance from the
lrish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limericlg
where she studied with violinist Mariana Sirbu and violist Bruno Giuranna,
She received her bachelor's degree in music from the Conseruatory of
Capital Normal University in Beiiing China, where she studied violin under
Clair Chan and Wang Hong and conducting with Peng Bo.
As Assistant Professor of Music at Agnes Scott College, Dr. Solomon teaches
applied violin and viola, coaches the string chamber ensemble, and conducts
the ASC Community Orchestra.
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With gratitude for friendship and in the spirit thereof, and in support
of the mission and vision of the ICPC Academy of Fine Arts,
The Leadetsltip and FamA of
Johns Creek Presbyterian Church
cordially invite you to a special Sunday evening performance
with internationally acclaimed classical guitarist
Chrtstian Thomas Lee
and a viewing of original work of art, historic documents, and
objects of royal provenance from The Christian Thomas Lee
Collection of Fine Art, including work by Pablo Picasso, Peter Carl
Faberge, Giovanni Batista Pasqualini, acquired from Sotheby's New
Yor( Sotheby's London, and The Santa Barbara Museum of Art.