The Juilliard School presents ChamberFest 2019 Wednesday, January 16, 2019, 7:30pm Paul Hall MOZART Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 493 Coaches: Yoheved Kaplinsky, Areta Zhulla, and Robert Levin Sophia Su Sophia Su is a student in Juilliard's Pre-College. At the 26th Concurso Para Jovens Musicos de Competition, she won first prize and received the Premio Instituto Cultural Award as the youngest participant in the competition's history. She also won first prize in the junior category of the National Children’s Music Competition, and was guest soloist during the 10th anniversary of Macau's handover to China, which was broadcast live. In 2016 she won third prize at the 8th Louis Spohr Competition for Young Violinists in Germany. • Natalie Shainess Scholarship, Louis Smadbeck Scholarship Sofia Gilchenok Violist Sofia Gilchenok is a student of Molly Carr and Yi-Fang Huang in Juilliard’s Pre-College, which she has attended since 2013. She also studies with Hsin-Yun Huang as a scholarship recipient of the Jorgensen Outreach for Youth program. She has performed Paganini’s La Campanella with the Ocala Symphony and has also appeared as soloist with the Willimantic Orchestra. She has performed on NPR’s From the Top. She is regional director of the central Connecticut branch of the Back to BACH project. Passionate about chamber music, she considers her three-year participation in Music@Menlo’s Young Performers program among her favorite musical experiences. • Mildred and Bernard Kayden Pre-College Scholarship Heechan Ku Heechan Ku, a junior at Bergen County Academies, started playing cello at age 9. He has been studying with Clara Kim at Juilliard’s Pre-College for three years. He has won prizes in several national and international cello competitions and has been invited to compete at the Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and Lincoln Center’s Bruno Walter Auditorium on numerous occasions. He has also performed as a chamber musician, playing in the Chamber Music Society program in seventh, eighth, and tenth grades. Felicia He Pianist Felicia He, who studies with Yoheved Kaplinsky at Juilliard’s Pre-College, made her orchestral debut with the Fort Worth Symphony and has since performed in Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall and been a soloist with the Albany Symphony, the Ridgewood Symphony, and New York’s Little Orchestra Society. She has been featured on both NPR’s Performance Today and From the Top and was a recurring soloist at the Aspen Music Festival as well as a two-time participant in the David Finckel–Wu Han chamber music program. She attends the Brearley School in New York City. KORNGOLD Quintet for Piano and Strings in E Major, Op. 15 Jeremy Lap Hei Hao A native of Hong Kong, violinist Jeremy Lap Hei Hao is pursuing his master's at Juilliard studying with Laurie Smukler. A graduate of Mannes School of Music, he served as concertmaster and principal violin of the Mannes Orchestra. At Mannes he studied with Sally Thomas and Ann Setzer and performed at the Mannes Sound Festival. He has played at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School and Festival, New York String Orchestra Seminar, and Meadowmount School of Music. • Juilliard Scholarship Mary Grace Johnson Violinist Mary Grace Johnson recently won the National MTNA Young Artist Strings competition in Baltimore and has been a soloist with the Nashville Symphony and Vanderbilt University Orchestra. A graduate of Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, she received the Founder’s Medal for highest honors in her graduating class. She is pursuing her master’s at Juilliard studying with Laurie Smukler. Originally from Murfreesboro, Tenn., and the sixth of nine children in a musical family, she has been surrounded by music all her life. • Tomoko Scholarship, C. V. Starr Scholarship Hannah Burnett Hannah Burnett, who began playing viola at age 3 in her hometown of Waco, Texas, is in her third year of undergraduate studies with Roger Tapping at Juilliard. Her true passion lies with chamber music. For the last two summers, she has been a young artist at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hill, Maine. She has been a soloist with the Waco and Oregon East Symphonies, has worked with several Juilliard String Quartet musicians, and has collaborated with Janine Jansen. • Edward John Noble Foundation Scholarship, Frieda and Leonard Davis Scholarship Iona Batchelder Cellist IIona Batchelder, an avid chamber, orchestral, and solo artist, was selected as a principal cellist in the Juilliard Orchestra in 2016. She was a prize winner at YoungArts and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and she has attended Kneisel Hall and the Aspen Music Festival. She is in her third year of bachelor’s studies at Juilliard under Darrett Adkins and plays on a 1740 Carlo Antonio Testore cello on gracious loan from David and Krystyna Newman. • Argyll Campbell Rice and Argyll Pryor Rice Scholarship, Felix Salmond Scholarship Zhu Wang Pianist Zhu Wang won first prize at the second Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians and the Hilton Head Young Artist Piano Competition. He has been a featured soloist on WQXR’s Young Artist Showcase and WFMT’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts. He has worked with many distinguished pianists, including Gary Graffman, Fou Ts’ong, Stephen Hough, and Murray Perahia and his previous instructors include Xiaofeng Zheng and Wenhong Chen. • Cecelia Felman Scholarship, Cecil Yarbrough Scholarship, Gina Bachauer Scholarship TCHAIKOVSKY String Sextet in D Minor, Op. 70 “Souvenir de Florence” Ariel Seunghyun Lee Ariel Seung Hyun Lee, a native of Seoul, South Korea, is pursuing her bachelor’s at Juilliard studying with Li Lin. As an avid chamber and orchestral musician, she has participated in the Heifetz International Music Institute, Juilliard Chamber Festival, Great Mountains Pyeong Chang Music Festival, and Music Academy of the West. Through these festivals, she has gained extensive experience in collaborating with like-minded musicians. In her orchestral career, she has served as a substitute violinist at New World Symphony and Symphony in C. • C.V. Starr Scholarship, Fritz Kreisler Scholarship Sophia Steger Violinist Sophia Steger, a student of Catherine Cho at Juilliard, has been awarded top prizes in numerous New York-area competitions and has been a soloist with the New York Chamber Players, Seniors Orchestral Society of New York, Manhattan School of Music Precollege Symphony, and New York International Chamber Orchestra. She studied with Patinka Kopec at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege and attended the Aspen Music Festival and School, Heifetz International Music Institute, and Castleman Quartet Program. Her chamber ensembles have been mentored by members of the Emerson, Shanghai, Juilliard, and Kronos quartets. • Michael and Ethel Cohen Scholarship, Dorothy DeLay Scholarship, DeLay/Starling Scholarship Frida Oliver Frida Oliver started studying violin at age 5 and viola at age 8. Originally from Stavanger, Norway, she is a substitute in the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and Oslo Philharmonic. She attended the Barratt-Due Institute of Music from age 10 to 18. Since 2013 she has been a member of the Perlman Music Program. From 2018 to 2020 she has been invited to participate in KonstKnekt, a chamber music collaboration between Norwegian musicians and the Berlin Philharmonic. Last year she made her solo debut with the Sandnes Symphony Orchestra. She studies with Heidi Castleman and Carol Rodland at Juilliard. • Irene Lane Scholarship, David Merrick Scholarship Elijah Spies Raised in London, British-American violist Elijah Spies is completing his undergraduate studies at Juilliard with Carol Rodland. He attended the Eastman School of Music and Royal College of Music junior department, where he was awarded the Strings Prize. His chamber playing has been recorded for BBC Radio 3. A lover of new music, he has collaborated with and performed premieres of contemporary chamber music with members of the International Contemporary Ensemble and JACK Quartet. He also plays baroque viola and studies with Cynthia Roberts. Brussels sprouts are his favorite vegetable. Jenny Bahk Jenny Bahk, a cellist from Korea, is a 2017 YoungArts honorable mention recipient. She has won numerous music competitions, including the Korean Chamber Orchestra Competition, Yewon Concours, and International Young Artist Competition, and was a semifinalist at the Music Center Spotlight Awards Competition and Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. In October 2013 she performed Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Seoul Academy Ensemble at Kwanglim Arts Center. In 2012 and 2013 she gave recitals in the Young Artist Concert Series in Seoul. She was accepted into Meadowmount School of Music in 2014 and Music@Menlo in 2016. • Thelma Altschuler Scholarship, Argyll Campbell Rice and Argyll Pryor Rice Scholarship Hannah Kim American cellist Hannah Kim's earliest memories of music include dancing to her grandfather playing Für Elise, singing with her mother, and listening to her father’s off-key singing. She has since taken part in many competitions such as the Golden Era of Romantic Music and U.S. Open Music Competition; her proudest moment is winning the American Fine Arts Festival International Competition, which gave her the honor of performing at Weill Recital Hall. She is a full-time student at Juilliard pursuing an undergraduate degree under Natasha Brofsky..