Red River Scrapbook
Guest artists from South Korea to perform at UNT
By UNT News Service
Jun 18, 2008
DENTON (UNT), Texas — Guest artists Won-Young Kong and Wha-Sook Kim, both assistant professors at the University of Suwon in South Korea, will perform two concerts at the University of North Texas.
The first concert, featuring Kong (piano), will begin at 8 p.m. June 24 (Tuesday). The second, featuring both Kim (mezzo-soprano) and Kong (piano), will begin at 8 p.m. June 26 (Thursday). Both concerts are free and will be held at the Concert Hall in the UNT Music Building, located at the southeast corner of Avenue C and Chestnut Street.
Kong will perform the solo piano works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frédéric Chopin, Alexander Scriabin and Edvard Grieg. Accompanied by Kong on piano, Kim will perform the works of Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf and Karl Heinz Füssl. She will also perform four Korean art songs: Snow by Hyo-Keun Kim, A Girl Picking Spring Leaves by Jae-Myung Hyun, Wish to Live in the Green Mountain by Yun-Joon Kim and Epitaph Tree by Il-Nam Chang.
Kong received her doctor of musical arts degree in piano performance at UNT, where she studied with Adam Wodnicki, Regents Professor of piano. She is head of the Piano Pedagogy Department at the University of Suwon and has performed in numerous solo recitals, and with piano duos and orchestras in South Korea and the United States.
Kim is head of the Vocal Department at the University of Suwon and has performed in numerous concerts, including oratorios such as Johannes Passion, Gianni Schicchi, La Travita, Hwanginhee and in the opera Cavalleria Rusticana. She is director of La Pace Music Stage and was awarded as the best performer by the Berlin Bach Society.
For more information, contact Linda Strube at (940) 565-3709 or by e-mail at Linda.Strube@unt.edu.
What: Guest artists Won-Young Kong and Wha-Sook Kim, both assistant professors at the University of Suwon in South Korea, will perform two concerts at the University of North Texas. Kong, a UNT alumna, and Kim will perform Korean art songs as well as the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Schubert and Alexander Scriabin.
When: 8 p.m. June 24 (Tuesday) – Won-Young Kong, piano; 8 p.m. June 26 (Thursday) – Wha-Sook Kim, mezzo-soprano, and Kong, piano
Where: Both concerts will be held at the Concert Hall in the UNT Music Building, located at the southeast corner of Avenue C and Chestnut Street.
Cost: Free
Contact: Linda Strube at (940) 565-3709 or Linda.Strube@unt.edu