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Wednesday,
October 8, 2008 , 12:15 p.m.
Young-Ah Tak, Piano
Sonata
in B-flat Major, Op.24 No.2
Allegro con brio
Andante
Rondo: Allegro assai
Muzio Clementi (1752 – 1832)
Wizards
(2003)
Judith Zaimont (b. 1945)
Sonetto 104 del Petrarca
Paganini Etude No.2 in E-flat Major
Rigoletto Paraphrase
Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886)
Since making her New York debut at the Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall
with the Juilliard Symphony, Young-Ah Tak has performed
as a recitalist, a soloist, and a chamber musician in the United States,
Canada, Austria, Germany, Italy, Korea and Japan. Her performances have
been broadcast on WQXR (Classical Music Station of The New York Times),
KPAC (Texas), WCLV (Cleveland) and KBS (Korea).
Ms. Tak is the Silver Medal winner at the San Antonio International Piano
Competition, where she also received the award for Best Performance of
a Classical Work. She is also the winner of the International Corpus Christi
Young Artists' Competition, and top prize winner in numerous other competitions
including the Fulbright Concerto Competition, Valsesia-Musica International
Piano Competition in Italy, the Hilton Head International Piano Competition,
and the Ettlingen International Piano Competition in Germany.
Ms. Tak's orchestral appearances include: the Filharmonia Pomorska (Poland),
the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the Oltenia Philharmonic Orchestra
(Romania), the Korean Symphony Orchestra, the Ulsan Philharmonic and the
Busan Philharmonic Orchestra in her native Korea. She performs regularly
at Alice Tully Hall, The Kennedy Center, the Steans Institute at Ravinia
Festival, Yamaha Piano Salon (New York, Seoul) and Jordan Hall in Boston,
and has also appeared at the Music@Menlo festival, Aspen Music Festival,
the Banff Centre for the Arts, Tongyeong International Music Festival
in Korea, St. Paul Chapel at Columbia University and the Sequenza 21 concert
series in New York.
Ms. Tak received her Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School
and her Master's degree with high distinction from the New England Conservatory.
She earned her Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory with
Russell Sherman and Wha Kyung Byun as a Presidential Scholar. Ms. Tak
is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Musical Arts at Peabody Institute
of the Johns Hopkins University as a student of Leon Fleisher. She also
serves as a member of the piano faculty at the Preparatory Division of
the Peabody Institute.
The debut recording of Judith Zaimont's “Wizards (2003)” by
Ms. Tak was released by Albany Records to great critical acclaim in November
2005. For more information about Ms. Tak, please visit www.youngahtak.com.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
Oct 15 Inbal Segev, Cello and Angela Yoffe, Piano
Oct 22 Avalon String Quartet
Oct 29 Washington Garcia, Piano
Nov 5 Hyunah Yu, Soprano and Alon Goldstein, Piano