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Arizona Symphony Orchestra 

Large Ensembles Saturday September 25, 2021 - 7:30p.m. to 9:30p.m.

Venue: Crowder Hall

Arizona Symphony Orchestra
Featuring 2020-21 Concerto Competition Winner Soo Yoen Kim, piano
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Crowder Hall, 7:30 p.m.
$10 Admission
Box Office – 520-621-3341 – music.arizona.edu/tickets

Livestream

The Arizona Symphony Orchestra of University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music returns to live performance on September 25 at 7:30 PM in Crowder Hall. To commemorate the centennial of Nelson Riddle’s birth, the orchestra will perform Riddle’s spunky arrangement of Gershwin’s Three Preludes. The winner of the School’s 2020-21 Concerto Competition, Soo Yoen Kim, will then join the orchestra for movements from Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Thomas Cockrell will conclude the program with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique,” offered as a somber reflection on the challenges and tragedies of the past 18 months. Join us as Crowder Hall again resonates to live music making.


PROGRAM

Three Preludes
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
arr. Nelson Riddle (1921-1985)
Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
Andante con moto e poco rubato
Allegro ben ritmato e deciso

Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Andante
Presto
Soo Yoen Kim, piano

INTERMISSION

Symphony No. 6 in B minor “Pathétique”, Op. 74
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Adagio – Allegro non troppo
Allegro con grazia
Allegro molto vivace
Finale: Adagio lamentoso


2020-21 Concerto Competition Winner Soo Yoen Kim, piano

SooYoen Kim enjoys a diverse career as a soloist, chamber musician, accompanist, orchestral player, and music educator. She has performed recitals at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall and Steinway Hall in New York and Centennial Hall in Tucson. She was one of the soloists of the Chopin 200th Anniversary Gala Concert at the World Financial Center, New York, and the opening concert at the Italy Music Festival in Lucca, Italy. She won the First Prize in the American Protégé International Piano Competition 2014 at Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2012, she was invited to participate the International Bösendorfer Piano Competition and the Second Prize Winner of the Louis Trester Competition 2014, Arizona, and the winner of the Duquesne’s Concerto Competition 2011 in Pittsburg. Before coming to the United States, she was the First Prize winner at the Korean Youth Piano Competitions. Soo Yoen received a bachelor’s degree in music from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, a master’s degree in music from the Mannes School of Music, the New School, New York, and an Artist Diploma from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. She worked as a teaching assistant at Duquesne University and the University of Arizona, and as an accompanist for the University of Arizona Opera Production, and Arizona Choir. Soo Yoen is currently studying with Dr. John Milbauer and finishing a doctoral program at the University of Arizona.

 

 

 


About the Conductor

Dr. Thomas Cockrell has served as the Nelson Riddle Endowed Chair in Music, director of orchestral activities at the University of Arizona since 2000. He is also the artistic director of Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point, a summer festival in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Cockrell has conducted the professional symphony orchestras of Dallas, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Tucson, Louisville and Boulder, as well as several in Romania, Italy, Mexico and South Korea. Operatic credits include productions for Dayton Opera, Opera Colorado, Opera Theatre of the Rockies and Washington D.C.’s Summer Opera Theatre. He served as the associate conductor of Cincinnati Opera, Opera Colorado, The Colorado Symphony Orchestra and the Spoleto Festivals, music director of Denver Young Artists Orchestra, and interim conductor of the Phoenix Youth Symphony. He was a member of the conducting faculty of the Interlochen Arts Camp from 2006 to 2008. While on sabbatical leave fall 2018 he served as a guest professor in Mexico City at Universidad Autónoma de México/Facultad de Música, with which the Fred Fox School of Music has recently established a promising partnership.

Cockrell earned his Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University. He studied conducting with Franco Ferrara in Rome and at L’Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. Additionally, he was an Aspen Conducting Fellow and completed advanced training at the Conservatoire Américain in Fontainebleau, France and the Tanglewood Music Center, where he worked with Gustav Meier, Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa.


The Arizona Symphony Orchestra – Thomas Cockrell, conductor

 

Violin

Isabella Bryant

Mia Chen

Yiwen Chen

Gemmalee DyerMok

Brynne Gallup

Helena Hadlock

Zhouyu Lu

Andrew Nix

Isaiah O’Mack

Rachael Pabst

Aliyah Powe

Carissa Powe

Delia Robbennolt

Kai Skaggs

Emmy Tisdel*

Daniel Worms

Ziqian Ye**

Yang Zhou

 

Viola

Katie Baird

Kylie Baird

Gabriella Cioca

Corissa Knecht

Ivan Perez

Sydney Schwalbe-Kitchens

Dorthea Stephenson

Ana Tovo Loureiro**

 

Violoncello

Lisandro Acosta**

Isabel Burgos-DeStephanis

Lilly Cottam

Chao Fang

Madeleine Guillaumot

Levi Powe

Bethany Radtke

Sarah Rosales

 

Bass

Lilian Johnson

Ka Kiu Wong**

 

Flute

Kayla Blackburn

Delani Seymour

Hallie Ward, piccolo

 

Oboe

Zachary Ashland

Wren Requist

Christian Zatarain

 

Clarinet

Gloria Orozco Dorado

Mikaela Rabago

 

Bassoon

Malory Mahoney

Edward Senn

 

Horn

Sean Bresemann

John Lu

Caitlynn Sandberg

Ananias Schaefer

 

Trumpet

Rich Candelaria

Joseph Chen

Rachel Clemmer

 

Trombone

Matthew Rohrs

Joshua Schanie

Daniel Sherman

 

Tuba

Nathan Love

 

Percussion

Marcus Hawkins

Hannah Hutchins

Alyssa Prichard

Katelynn Ward

 

Harp

Ariadna Demkov

 

Assistant Conductors

Riddle Orchestral Assistants

Maria Lorena Suárez Molina

Yudai Ueda

 

* Concertmaster

** Principal

 

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