October
Eunice Kim and Xiaohui Yang
35th Anniversary Season 2021—2022
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Join us on October 17th, when violinist Eunice Kim and pianist Xiaohui Yang play sonatas
and romances by Beethoven, Poulenc, and Clara Schumann. Concert program - click here.
Online ticket sales for this concert are now closed. Tickets may be available at
the door.
A young artist with a unique voice, violinist Eunice Kim has been proclaimed “just superb” by the New
York Times and “a born performer” by Epoch Times. A native of the San Francisco Bay area, the Astral
Award-winning violinist has been featured soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Louisville Symphony,
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, South Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Seongnam Philharmonic, and
Bakersfield Symphony. She recorded George Tsontakis’s Unforgettable on Naxos Records with the Albany
Symphony. As a guest artist for Curtis On Tour, she has performed in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea,
and Germany with violist Roberto Díaz, and appeared at both the Library of Congress and the United
Nations for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Eunice Kim has degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and from the Curtis Institute of
Music, where she studied with Ida Kavafian. She served as concertmaster of the Curtis Symphony
Orchestra.
Hailed by Isreali newspaper Haaretz as a "…tastefully polished musician," Chinese pianist Xiaohui Yang
has been featured in performances over four continents, including in Ozawa Hall, the New Jersey
Performing Arts Center, Tel Aviv Museum, and the Seoul Arts Center. As the winner of the 2017 edition of
the Naumburg Piano Competition she was to give her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 2020, on
a program to include the premiere of a newly commissioned work by Shulamit Ran.
Born in the Chinese town of Liaoning, Yang first studied at the Attached Music School of the Shenyang
Conservatory of Music. She moved to the United States to attend the Curtis Institute of Music, studied
with Ignat Solzhenitsyn, and was recipient of the Michael and Cecilia lacovella Capuzzi Memorial
Fellowship. She was awarded Curtis' Festorazzi Prize and was also selected for the Curtis On Tour
performances in the United States and South Korea. She earned her master’s degree at the Juilliard School
as a recipient of the Cecilia Felman Piano Scholarship and was a pupil of Robert McDonald. Currently, she
is a doctor of musical arts candidate at the Peabody Conservatory, under the tutelage of Boris Slutsky.
