KMF Concert Series: Joint Recital of Seung Hyun Lee and Young-A Tak
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 7pm
Korean Cultural Service NY
Seung Hyun Lee, Korean Lyric-Coloratura soprano is currently a visiting professor at Baylor University (Waco, TX). Ms. Lee is the winner of many renowned international opera competition such as Mario Lanza Opera Scholarship Foundation Competition (USA), Concorso Internazionale Mario Del Monaco and the Fracesco Cilea International Opera Competition (Italy). She was warmly received by audiences and critics at the Gala concerts at Teatro Communale Marsala and Teatro Siracusa. She made her New York debut at Weil Recital hall at Carnegie Hall and also was the guest artist for Asian American Heritage Night at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She appeared as concert soloist with orchestras including New York Sinfonietta, Riverside Sinfonietta (USA), and Pyoung Tak Orchestra Sokcho International Music Festival (Korea). Her operatic performances include the role of Olympia from Tales of Hoffman, Bastienne, from Bastien unt Bastienne, Alice from Le Comte Ory, Achsah from Joshua, Nannetta from Falstaff, and Oscar from Un Ballo in Maschera. She has also appeared as soprano soloist in Oratorio, such as Mozart Requiem, Coronation Mass, C minor mass and Schubert C major mass, Bach Saint John Passion, Handel Messiah. Haydn Creation. She holds DMA from University of Cincinnati, MM and BM from the Manhattan School of Music.
Since making her New York debut at Lincoln Center with the Juilliard Symphony, Ms. Young-A Tak has performed in the United States, Canada, Austria, Germany, Italy, Korea, and Japan. Her performances have been broadcast on WQXR (New York), WFMT (Chicago), WBJC (Baltimore), WCLV (Cleveland), and the LOOP (Chicago’s cable station). Ms. Tak has performed with numerous orchestras including North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Filharmonia Pomorska (Poland), the Oltenia Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania), the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, the NEC Philharmonic, the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra and the Korean Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, The Kennedy Center, Jordan Hall, Ravinia Festival, Music@Menlo, the Myra Hess Concert Series, and in the Tongyeong and Busan International Music Festivals in Korea. Ms. Tak received her Masters degree from the New England Conservatory where she also earned her Graduate Diploma as a Presidential Scholar. Currently, Ms. Tak serves as Assistant Professor of Piano at Southeastern University in Florida.
The program includes the works of Schubert, Obrados, Chopin, Isang Yun and more.
Free admission. For reservation and more information, please call call 212-759-9550 or email info@koreanculture.org