August 15, 2001
Wednesday, 7:30 PM at Boston Esplanade
Concert with the Longwood Symphony Summer Orchestra
Francisco Noya, Music Director

Program

Piano Concerto No. 1 in C, opus 15   BEETHOVEN
    Allegro con brio
    Largo
    Rondo: Allegro scherzando

    Yeol-Eum Son, piano

    INTERMISSION

Symphony No. 6 in F "Pastorale"         BEETHOVEN
    Allegro ma non troppo
    Andante molto mosso
    Allegro
    Allegro
    Allegretto

The Artists:

Miss Yeol-Eum Son has emerged as one of the outstanding pianists from Korea.
She was born in 1986 and began to study the piano when she was three. She
gave her first public recital two years later when she was six years old. In
1997, she won the 2nd Prize in the 3rd International Tchaikovsky Competition
for Young Musician in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was the youngest among the
participants and received an exceptionally favorable review. The jury
members quoted her as: " a very young girl who had lived only in Korea but
she has the best understanding of the Russian music than any other
competitors." Since then she has participated in numerous prestigious music
festivals including the Annual Music Festival in Boston Walnut Hill School
where she studied with Yin Cheng-Zong, a professor in Cleveland Conservatory,
and she also appeared as soloist with the Longwood Symphony Summer Orchestra.


In 1999, as the youngest participant, she won the 1st Prize in the 3rd
Oberlin International Piano Competition held in Ohio, U.S.A. In the following
year, she has won the 1st prize in the world-renowned Ettlingen International
Piano Competition held in Ettlingen, Germany. She was again the youngest
pianist. In addition, she received the EMCY prize, and Urtext prize in that
competition. She has concertized extensively as a recitalist and soloist with
the major orchestras in Korea. In recognition of her achievements both in
Korea and abroad, Ms. Son had invited by the Seoul Arts Center, the most
prestigious concert hall in Korea, to perform two concertos with Seoul
Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2001, She had finished her concert travel in
Germany by the awards of the 7th Ettlingen International Piano Competition,
some recitals and performing concert with the Baden-Baden Philhamornic
Ochestra.

She studies with Professor Daejin, Kim at the Preparatory Division of the
Korean National University of Art. Her hobbies are reading and computer
works. (written by Mr. DaeJin, Kim)

Longwood Symphony Orchestra:
Now in its 19th season, the Longwood Symphony Orchestra began in 1982 as the
dream of a few medical students and physicians in the Longwood medical area .
It has since grown into a full-sized symphonic orchestra and is under the
direction of music director Francisco Noya Its dual mission is to benefit
medically-related and other community service nonprofit organizations while
presenting concerts of musical excellence, introducing Boston audiences to
new works, and supporting local artists.

The musicians of the LSO are drawn from many of Boston's major medical
institutions, as well as from the teaching, arts, and business professions.
The orchestra makes its home in the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall
and has also appeared at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade, Kresge Auditorium
at MIT, the Collins Center in Andover, and the Keiter Center in Natick.

In addition to their dedication to music, the members of the LSO share a
genuine commitment to community service. This season's concerts will benefit
The Hospitality Program, Dimock Community Health Center, and the New England
Hemophilia Association. The October concert will honor the Albert Schweitzer
Foundation, and celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Schweitzer Urban
Fellows Program, which was launched in 1991 in a citywide symposium on
"Reverence for Life," which culminated in a concert by the Longwood Symphony,
violinist Lynn Chang and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

Under the direction of Music Director Francisco Noya, the 2001-2002 will
feature a world premiere work by Argentinean composer Daniel Doura, written
expressly for the LSO and works by Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, among
others.. We will welcome guest conductor Jonathan McPhee, soprano Diana
McVey, pianists Judith Gordon, Randall Hodgkinson, and Leslie Amper, and the
2001 Naumberg Award winner, cellist Clancy Newman. In addition, the women of
the New World Chorale, under the joint direction of Holly Krafka and
Zielinski, will join theLSO for Holst's "The Planets." For more information
about the LSO 2001-02 season, call the LSO at 617-332-7011 or visit our
website: www.longwoodsymphony.org

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