Tongyeong Festival Orchestra European Tour 2017 Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Isang Yun (1917-1995) 23 September to 2 October 2017 Program Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau du Couperin Isang Yun: Violin Concerto No. 3 (1992) Isang Yun: Harmonia (1974) Maurice Ravel: Ma Mère l´oye (Ballett) Clara Jumi Kang Violin Tongyeong Festival Orchestra Heinz Holliger Conductor Inquiries: Tongyeong International Music Foundation www.timf.org [email protected] Tongyeong Festival Orchestra Following the example of Lucerne, Switzerland, Tongyeong Festival Orchestra (TFO) was created to enhance the musical spectrum of the Tongyeong International Music Festival, and to serve as an artistic ambassador for Tongyeong City, a UNESCO Creative City of Music. Since the festival’s first edition in 2002, TIMF has been striving to assemble highly qualified musicians in order to build its own ensemble. In 2011, then Alexander Liebreich initiated a collaboration of musicians from Ensemble TIMF with the Munich Chamber Orchestra, thus for the first time building a truly international Festival Orchestra. From then on, the group was assembled annually, performing at home and abroad. At the opening of the new Tongyeong Concert Hall in 2014, TFO was again led by Alexander Liebreich and included musicians from Ensemble TIMF, Polish National Radio Orchestra of Katowice, and from major international symphony orchestras, such as NDR Hamburg, Munich Philharmonic, Kremerata Baltica, Osaka Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, TFO truly became a musical centerpiece of the Tongyeong International Music Festival. Following the festival theme „Voyages“, the orchestra went abroad to play in Japan and China. Performing together with violinist Gidon Kremer and German conductor Christoph Poppen, the orchestra consisted of musicians mainly from Korea, Japan and China to create a musical bridge between the three countries. Later in the year, TFO was led by conductor Michael Sanderling as the official orchestra of the International ISANGYUN Cello Competition. 2016 conductors of the orchestra are Christoph Eschenbach and Ken-David Masur. 2016 TFO musicians come from... Ensemble TIMF, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, NDR Symphonieorchester Hamburg, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Melbourne Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Kremerata Baltica, Osaka Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Queensland Symphony, New Zealand Symphony, Amsterdam Sinfonietta Clara Jumi Kang, Violin Born in Germany into a musical family, Clara-Jumi Kang started to play the violin at the age of three. At 6, she enrolled at Mannheim Musikhochschule as the youngest student ever accepted to study there under Valery Gradov. A year later, she went on to study with Zakhar Bron at Lübeck Musikhochschule. By then, she had already given her debut with Hamburg Symphony at the age of 5. Just turning 7, she got accepted to the Juilliard School with a full scholarship to study with Dorothy Delay. At that time, Clara had already performed with orchestras such as Leipzig Gewandhaus, Hamburg Symphony, Nice Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, and KBS Orchestra. Clara went on to study Bachelor and Master degree at age sixteen with Nam-Yun Kim at the Korean National University of Arts. During that period, she won top prizes at Major International Violin Competition such as Tibor Varga Violin Competition in 2007, 1st Prize at Seoul Violin Competition in 2009, 2nd Prize at Hannover Violin Competition in 2009, 1st prize at Sendai Violin Competition in 2010, and was awarded 1st prize at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 2010 with additional five special prizes. Clara completed her studies at Munich Musikhochschule in 2013 with Christoph Poppen. Clara has established herself as a Soloist, invited to perform with orchestras all around the world. She released her first Solo Album for DECCA ‘Modern Solo’ in 2011 including solo works such as Ernst´s Last Rose, Schubert´s Erlkönig, Ysaye Solo Sonatas. Last season 15/16, collaborations were with Kremerata Baltica/Gidon Kremer, Moscow Virtuosi/Vladimir Spivakov, Mariinsky Orchestra/Valery Gergiev, New Japan Philharmonic/Hartmut Haenchen, Seoul Philharmonic/Lionel Bringuier, Berlin Baroque Soloists, Macao Philharmonic/Lü Jia, Köln Chamber Orchestra/Christoph Poppen, Tokyo Philharmonic/Myung-Whun Chung and others. During the current season, she will appear with orchestras such as Mariinsky Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra, National Philharmonic of Russia, and China NCPA Orchestra. Some of the collaborating conductors will be Andrey Boreyko, Valery Gergiev, Lü Jia, Gidon Kremer, Christoph Poppen and Vladimir Spivakov. A very devoted chamber musician, she collaborates with numerous artists. She also visits festivals such as Pyeongchang Music Festival, Marvao Music Festival, Hong Kong Music Festival, and Ishikawa Music Festival almost annually. In 2012, Clara was selected as one of the ‘100 Future’s most promising, influential people of Korea’ by Korean major newspaper DongA Times and also received the 2012 „Daewon Music Award“ for her outstanding concert achievements internationally. She was later named “Kumho Musician of the year” for 2014. Clara resides in Munich and currently plays the Antonio Stradivarius ‘ex-Strauss’ 1708, generously on loan by Samsung Cultural Foundation Korea. Heinz Holliger After taking first prizes in the international competitions in Genf and Munich, Mr. Holliger began an incomparable international career that has taken him to the great musical centers on five continents. Exploring both composition and performance, he has extended the technical possibilities of his instrument while deeply committing himself to contemporary music. Some of the most important composers of the present day have dedicated works to Mr. Holliger, who also advocates certain lesser-known works and composers. Heinz Holliger’s many honors and prizes include the Composer’s Prize from the Swiss Musician’s Association, the City of Copenhagen’s Léonie Sonning Prize for Music, Art Prize of the City of Basel, the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, the City of Frankfurt’s Music Prize, the Abbiati Prize at the Venice Biennale, an honorary doctorate from the University of Zürich, and a Zürich Festival Prize, among others, as well as awards for recordings - the Diapason d’Or, Midem Classical Award, the Edison Award, the Grand Prix du Disque, and others. As a conductor, Heinz Holliger has worked for many years together with leading orchestras and ensembles worldwide, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra, the London Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the SWR Symphony Orchestra of Baden- Baden/Freiburg and Stuttgart, the WDR Symphony Orchestra of Cologne, the Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra, the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra, L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Lyon, and the Strasbourg Philharmonic, as well as his long standing collaboration with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. In high demand as a composer, Heinz Holliger’s works are published exclusively by Schott Music International. His opera on Robert Walser’s “Schneewittchen” at the Zürich Opera House received great international attention. Other major works are the Scardanelli Cycle and the Violin Concerto. Heinz Holliger’s recordings as an oboist, conductor, and composer are available on Teldec, Philips and ECM. He is currently recording the works of Charles Koechlin in a series of releases for the SWR/Hänssler label. Of the five recordings currently released, a double CD with soprano Juliane Banse was awarded the Midem Classical 2006 Award and the 2006 Prize from Echo Classics. .