Today, we feature performers from Midwest Young Artists Conservatory, the Music Institute of Chicago, and Lake Zurich High School in works for different combinations of strings. We hear music of Mellits, Beethoven, Zupko, Giddens, Esmail, Prokofiev, Puccini and Haydn.
Members of the chamber groups have appeared on Introductions before:
– Pianist Samuel Kim performed alongside his brother, guitarist Joseph Kim, in a double recital in September 2023
– Cellist Jan Vargas Nedvetsky appeared as a soloist in recital in January 2021 and with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago in April 2023. He has appeared with chamber groups on Introductions in August 2020, in May 2021 and in August 2022; and was also part of WFMT’s 70th Anniversary Day of Celebration in December 2021.
Playlist
Marc Mellits: Tapas:
1st movement
Trio Fiammifero: Javier Irizarry, violin; Callia Murray, viola; Cecilia O’Malley, cello
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in D, Op. 70, No. 1, Ghost:
I. Allegro vivace e con brio
Trio Lumina: Julia Kim, violin; Caleb Sim, cello; Samuel Kim, piano
Mischa Zupko: Mong-geum-po-taryung (몽금포타령)
Julia Kim, violin; Elizabeth Vaughan, piano
Rhiannon Giddens: At the Purchaser’s Option
Reena Esmail: The Voyage:
III. The Nine Muses
IV. The Lion’s Spring Dance
Lake Zurich High School Symphony Orchestra; Nathan Sackschewsky, conductor
Sergei Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 1 in B minor, Op. 50:
I. Allegro
Giacomo Puccini: Crisantemi
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op. 76, No. 3, Emperor:
I. Allegro
Calcifer String Quartet: Zak Chen & Kana Aihara, violins; Leo Zupko, viola; Jan Vargas Nedvetsky, cello
