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A faculty/guest recital by Brendan Shea '09, AD '11, violin and Yerin Kim '10, piano.

Program:

Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, BWV 1017                        Johann Sebastian Bach

      Siciliano. Largo                                                                        

      Allegro

      Adagio

      Allegro

Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano                                      Alfred Schnittke

      Andante                                                                                 

      Allegretto

      Largo

      Allegretto

- Intermission -

Fantasiestücke, Op. 73                                                   Robert Schumann

      Zart und mit Ausdruck                                                              

      Lebhaft, leicht; Nach und nach ruhiger

      Rasch und mit Feuer

Sonata No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 45                                           Edvard Grieg

      Allegro molto ed appassionato                                                       

      Allegretto espressivo alla Romanza; Allegro molto

      Allegro animato

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Brendan Shea began violin at the age of 3 in Brussels, Belgium. At the age of 10 Brendan performed Sarasate’s Carmen Fantasie in Carnegie Hall, and the following year made his debut with orchestra at the age of 11 playing Paganini Concerto No. 1 with the Landon Symphonette in Washington DC. Brendan continues to perform regularly with Orchestras and in recitals nationally and internationally, and has competed in many major international competitions including Queen Elisabeth, Carl Nielsen, Sendai, Sibelius, Isang-Yun, and Seoul. His awards include Bronze Medal at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, Gold Medal and Audience Award at the Chesapeake International Chamber Music Competition, Grand Prize at the Coleman Chamber Music Competition, and 1st place with Honors in the Glazunov International Competition in Paris.

Brendan has performed across the world in collaboration with many world class ensembles and as a soloist. He premiered Frederic Rzewski’s Night, Dea th, and Devil with the Emmy Award winning 8th Blackbird. As a founding member of the award winning Wasmuth Quartet (now Verona) he performed across the United States, Germany, and Japan. His solo career has taken him across the globe as well, with performances in major venues in Europe and Asia, and across North America. In 2014 he partnered with his wife Yerin Kim to form the Shea-Kim Duo, which has competed internationally and performed recitals in Asia, Europe and North America. Their performances have been broadcasted by Klara Continuo in Belgium, PBC in South Korea, and WUFT Classic in Florida. Their first CD was recently released by Ark Studio in Seoul, South Korea.

In addition to his performance career, Brendan is also a sought after violin teacher and chamber musician. He taught violin and chamber music at the Mahanaim School in Huntington, New York and will be teaching violin at Oberlin Conservatory in February for Milan Vitek’s studio. He also joined the Euclid Quartet in fall of 2016 as second violinist, and the faculty of Indiana University South Bend.

Brendan Shea is a former student of Zakhar Bron and Milan Vitek. His mentors during his collegiate studies include many wonderful musicians from Oberlin, Indiana, and New York. He currently plays on a 2000 Samuel Zygmuntowicz made for Angela Ahn.

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Praised by the Calgary Herald as "...lively, ebullient, and spikily accentuated performance...", pianist Yerin Kim is an avid chamber musician and recitalist. She has been invited to give concerts in various festivals and recitals in major venues internationally, including The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Carnegie Hall in New York, Place Flagey in Brussels and the Rolston Hall at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. Her performances have been broadcast by the Klara Continuo in Belgium, the NPR program Performance Today, the PBC station in Seoul, Korea, and WUFT Classic in Florida. Kim formed the Shea- Kim Duo with her husband Brendan Shea in 2014, and has performed recitals in Asia, Europe and North America. Their first CD was released in 2016 by Ark Studio in Seoul, South Korea.

Yerin is equally passionate in teaching as well as providing music for people with special needs. She previously held faculty teaching position at the Pre-college and the Piano Department of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington where she lectured and coached the pedagogy course for undergraduates. Using her background in Psychology, she has been teaching wonderfully gifted students with autism and strongly believes in the essential connection between music education and special education. Kim founded and directs a Music and Autism Concert Series in Stony Brook University in New York where she created a partnership with the Psychology and Music department to create a safe haven for families with children with autism to enjoy live classical music. She is also currently teaching undergraduate students at Stony Brook University as a Teaching Assistant to Gilbert Kalish as well as coaching chamber music in the Pre-college division.

Yerin holds degrees in Piano and Psychology from Oberlin conservatory and college, Indiana University, and is currently a candidate for Doctor of Musical Arts at Stony Brook University. Her mentors and teachers include Hans Boepple, Seunghae Choi, Haewon Song, Arnaldo Cohen, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, and Gilbert Kalish.