John Heo, violin
Inah Chiu, piano
(Violin Elementary division First Place 12/10/2011)
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Lutkin Hall, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL USA
Jan 8, 2012
John Heo is a 5th grader at Meadowbrook elementary school in Northbrook. He started the violin with Jackie Fisher when he was in 2nd grade. He currently studies the violin with Cornelius Chiu who is a violinist in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
This Sejong was the first competition and he was so glad to win first place at the first competition. John likes to watch violin videos on YouTube and he enjoys math, singing, swimming, piano, and video games. He is a member of his church’s Sunday School Choir.
Misook Kim received her B.A. with the honor of Cum Laude from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. After finishing her “New Star Concert” sponsored by the Cho-sun Newspaper, she entered the graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin where she completed her M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in composition and the certificate of piano performance. Reviewer Mike Greenberg, writing in the San Antonio Express-News, called the composer ‘a bold and unrepentant modernist’. He also has mentioned ‘each of her works presented thus far has impressed with its fearless modernism, its concision and its strong individual profile’.
Kim has performed as a composer as well as a pianist in various concerts of her own works from solo to larger ensemble compositions throughout the States and Korea. Including commissions for the MUSICOPIA Concert, Olmos Ensemble, she has won International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) Judith Zaimont Award and the Long Island Arts Council International Composition Competition in 2007. She was a former faculty member at The University of the Incarnate Word and Trinity University in San Antonio, TX. She had also served as a music director at KUMC. In Fall 2006, Kim joined the faculty at the Conservatory of Music at Wheaton College, IL. |
