Winners of the 2017 Gina Bachauer Piano Competition
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Winners of the 2017 Gina Bachauer Piano Competition The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation Young Artists Showcase Behind every Juilliard artist is all of Juilliard —including you. With hundreds of dance, drama, and music performances, Juilliard is a wonderful place. 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McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation Young Artists Showcase Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 7:30pm Paul Hall Robert Sherman, Program Host, Young Artists Showcase Welcome Joseph W. Polisi, Juilliard President JOHANN Prelude in B Minor, BWV 855a (1722) SEBASTIAN BACH (arr. Alexander Siloti) (1685–1750) BELA BARTÓK Out of Doors (1926) (1881–1945) With Drums and Pipes Barcarolle Musettes The Night’s Music The Chase Chaeyoung Park, Piano Award Presentation The McGraw Family Foundation Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach presented to violinist Ariel Horowitz by Harold McGraw III, chairman emeritus of S&P Global Inc. (formerly McGraw Hill Financial, Inc.) FRANZ LISZT Réminiscences de Norma, S. 394 (1841) (1811–86) Yun-Chin Zhou, Piano WILLIAM BOLCOM Recuerdos for two pianos (1991) (b. 1938) Choro Chaeyoung Park Yun-Chin Zhou Tonight’s concert is being recorded for broadcast on Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 9pm, on WQXR radio, 105.9 FM. Please make certain that all electronic devices are turned off during the performance. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not permitted in this auditorium. 1 About the Artists Chaeyoung Park Pianist Chaeyoung Park, who is from South Korea, was awarded a silver medal in the 2016 Bachauer Competition. She has received top awards in many national and international competitions, including a gold medal from the National YoungArts Foundation in 2014, the Cleveland Young Artists Piano Competition and the Yamaha USASU International Senior Piano Competition in 2015, and the Arthur Fraser International Piano • Morton B. Knafel Competition in 2014. She won first place in the 2014 Emilio Del Rosario Scholarship International Young Artists Piano Competition and in the 2012 Inter- • Gina Bachauer national Institute for Young Musicians Competition. Ms. Park was the Scholarship youngest semifinalist and finalist at the 2012 Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition. She has performed at Orchestra Hall at Chicago’s Symphony Center, Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall, New World Center in Miami, Eastman School of Music, Lied Center of Kansas, and the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri. She has performed with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Canton Symphony Orchestra, New Millennium Symphony, and Topeka Symphony Orchestra, among others. Ms. Park began playing the piano at age 6 in South Korea, moved to Lawrence, Kan., in 2007; and studied with Jack Winerock at the University of Kansas for eight years. She is pursuing her BM in piano performance at Juilliard, where she studies with Robert McDonald. Yun-Chin Zhou A native of Shenyang, China, pianist Yun-Chin Zhou studies at Juilliard in the MM program with Robert McDonald. He also studied with Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute of Music. Mr. Zhou has appeared in recital at Zankel Hall and the Kennedy Center as part of the Young Concert Artists Series. He has also performed at the Center for Arts in Natick, Mass.; the Lied Center of Kansas, Mo; Boston’s Gardner • Cecelia Felman Museum; Colgate University; Bedford (N.Y.) Chamber Music Concert Piano Scholarship Series; and the Harriman-Jewell Series in Kansas City, Mo. He has • Alice Weiner collaborated with Young Concert Artists, including in the Great Hall Scholarship in Series with violinist Paul Huang, and at Weil Recital Hall with clarinetist Classical Music Narek Arutyunian, with whom he appears again this season in concerts • Gina Bachauer at the Morgan Library and the Oneonta Concert Association. Mr. Zhou Scholarship won first prize at the 2013 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, as well as the John Browning Memorial Prize, Ruth Laredo Memorial Award, and Slomovic Prize, among others. He won first prize in the 2013 Bachauer Competition and has also won top prizes in the China International Piano Competition, Gulangyu Piano Competition in Xiamen, Busoni Piano Competition in Italy, and Cleveland Piano Competition. He has appeared as a soloist with orchestras throughout China, including the China National Symphony Orchestra in Beijing. 2 Ariel Horowitz Violinist Ariel Horowitz received her BM at Juilliard, where she studied with Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho. She is currently pursuing her master’s at the Yale School of Music. A winner of a 2017 Salon de Virtuosi Career Development Grant, she has also received top prizes at the Stulberg and Irving M. Klein International String Competitions. She has performed with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Neue Philharmonie Westphalia, Raanana Symphonette, Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, Carmel Symphony Orchestra, and New Albany Symphony Orchestra, among others. She is the founder of the Heartbeat Project, a student-run organization launched in 2016, which combines music and math education and cultural exchange for K–12 age students on the Navajo Reservation. While at Juilliard she served as a diversity advocate (2014–15), Gluck Community and Service Fellow (2014–16), resident assistant (2015–16), and she hosted a collaboration concert with special needs music students from Daniel’s Music Foundation with her string quartet. In 2013 she coproduced a food drive and recital to raise awareness for those affected by food poverty in the N.Y.C. area. Major funding for establishing Paul Recital Hall and for continuing access to its series of public programs has been granted by The Bay Foundation and the Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation in memory of Josephine Bay Paul. 3 The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation Young Artists Showcase Tonight’s performance launches the 40th season of The McGraw Family Foundation Young Artists Showcase. Since its first season in 1978, the program has introduced more than 3,000 gifted musicians to the on-air audience. The Young Artists Showcase is broadcast on WQXR (105.9 FM) every Wednesday at 9pm and features performances by some of today’s most promising musicians. The Gina Bachauer Memorial Scholarship Fund The Gina Bachauer Memorial Scholarship Fund for gifted pianists was established at Juilliard in 1979 through a bequest from the late Lillian Rogers of New Orleans. Mrs. Rogers had been a lifelong friend of the eminent pianist Gina Bachauer, who died in 1976. It was Mrs. Rogers’ wish to honor in a tangible, permanent manner, Ms. Bachauer, whose artistry, compassion, and humanity she so admired. Recipients are chosen through an annual competition at Juilliard. The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation Robert Sherman Award The McGraw Family Foundation Robert Sherman Award was created in 2002 to honor radio personality, journalist, author, concert narrator, and teacher Robert Sherman and to mark the 25th anniversary of the Young Artists Showcase. To foster excellence in music education at the community level, the award recognizes a Juilliard alumnus or alumna for leadership in providing enrichment to broad audiences through music education programs as well as for outstanding musicianship. The winner is provided with a $10,000 grant to further his or her mission in music education and community outreach and is selected upon recommendation by Juilliard. 4 Juilliard Board of Trustees and Administration BOARD OF TRUSTEES Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts Bruce Kovner, Chair Brian Zeger, Artistic Director J. Christopher Kojima, Vice Chair Kirstin Ek, Director of Curriculum and Schedules Katheryn C. 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