Boston classical ORCHESTRA
Young Artists COMPETITIOn 2014
From: Steven Lipsitt [stevenlipsitt@verizon.net]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 10:03 AM
To: SLipsitt@BostonClassicalOrchestra.org
Subject: YouTube of In Mo Yang's winning final round, BCO YAC
Here is an archival video of In Mo Yang's winning final round at last Sunday's Boston Classical Orchestra Young Artists Competition. He is playing Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 ("Turkish") with pianist Lorena Tecu, and will play the same concerto with BCO this Sunday (December 14th, 3:00 pm) in Faneuil Hall.
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 10:03 AM
To: SLipsitt@BostonClassicalOrchestra.org
Subject: YouTube of In Mo Yang's winning final round, BCO YAC
Here is an archival video of In Mo Yang's winning final round at last Sunday's Boston Classical Orchestra Young Artists Competition. He is playing Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 ("Turkish") with pianist Lorena Tecu, and will play the same concerto with BCO this Sunday (December 14th, 3:00 pm) in Faneuil Hall.
Alexander Kopp MD PC
Congratulations to Sodam Amy Lim for the second prize at the BCO's First Young Artists Competition! Elka and Alex Kopp
Congratulations to Sodam Amy Lim for the second prize at the BCO's First Young Artists Competition! Elka and Alex Kopp
Steven Lipsitt added 2 new photos.
November 30 at 8:24pm ·
New England's Got (Mozart) Talent.
Come hear three young violinists compete in the final round for a chance to play a Mozart concerto with Boston Classical Orchestra. Public final round is Sunday, December 7th at 3:00 pm in Longy's Pickman Hall. Free but ticketed: info@BostonClassicalOrchestra.org or (617) 423-3883. Semi-finalists (ages 19 to 27) from BoCo, BU, NEC, Longy, Juilliard, Yale. [Winner plays at Faneuil Hall on Sunday, December 14th at 3:00 pm. (Tix (866) 811-4111 or www.BostonClassicalOrchestra.org) ]
Alexander Kopp
December 7 at 12:10pm · Newton, MA ·
Finals violin competition today at 3 pm at Longy school of music in Cambridge !
Come if you are available.
Mozart violin concerto and Bach solo!
Violinist In Mo Yang will play Mozart with Boston Classical Orchestra this Sunday at 3:00pm in historic Faneuil Hall! First-prize winner of BCO's Young Artists Competition, this 19-year-old NEC sophomore is a special musical artist; this concert offers a chance to glimpse a rising star in Classical music
Steven Lipsitt
December 8 at 11:51am ·
Violinist In Mo Yang will play Mozart with Boston Classical Orchestra this Sunday at 3:00pm in historic Faneuil Hall! First-prize winner of BCO's Young Artists Competition, this 19-year-old NEC sophomore is a special musical artist; this concert offers a chance to glimpse a rising star in Classical music.www.BostonClassicalOrchestra.org or (866) 811-4111. (And check out the cadenzas --- he wrote them...)
Alexander Kopp
December 12 at 9:58pm ·
Sunday at 3pm in Faneuil Hall, violinist In Mo Yang plays Mozart's "Turkish" concerto; Cellist Meehae Ryo makes her Boston debut in Haydn's D-major concerto; and the fine musicians of Boston Classical Orchestra surround them with Gluck and Haydn's Symphony No. 35. Not to be missed... (866) 811-4111 or www.BostonClassicalOrchestra.org
Young string players buoy BCO anniversary
By Steve SmithGLOBE STAFF DECEMBER 16, 2014
In Mo Yang is a recent New England competition winner.
According to at least one imposing authority, H.C. Robbins Landon, Haydn composed his Symphony No. 35 in 1767 for a specific festive occasion: to welcome his employer at the time, Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, home from what effectively amounted to a style-scouting excursion to Versailles in Paris. The symphony once again served festive ends in a blithe, buoyant account by the Boston Classical Orchestra at Faneuil Hall on Sunday afternoon, ending a concert that marked the hardy chamber orchestra’s 35th anniversary.
As it happened, the players and their music director, Steven Lipsitt, had rather a lot of celebrating to pack into their program. The concert opened with Gluck’s Overture in D, observing the 300th anniversary of that composer’s birth in 1714. Fleeting measures of fuzzy ensemble among violins at the onset notwithstanding, the appealing starter aptly showed the orchestra’s estimable grasp of 18th-century style
No caveats applied to a performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 (K. 219, “Turkish”) that featured In Mo Yang. Also South Korean, Yang is a student of Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory, a 2014 Concert Artists Guild competition winner, and, most recently, the winner of the Boston Classical Orchestra’s inaugural Young Artists Competition
From his first entrance onward, Yang was an arresting performer: now sweet, now excitable, now chaste, now florid, and always, everywhere, in command. Yang provided his own artful cadenzas, each showcasing his dexterity while also adhering to Mozart’s insuperable continuity. Throughout, the orchestra brilliantly matched his style and exuberance.
An instantaneous, extended ovation retrieved Yang for a well-deserved encore: an account of the Largo from Bach’s Sonata in C (BWV 1005) as notable for its graciousness and sobriety as for its technical security.
Remember his name.
Steve Smith can be reached at steven.smith@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter@nightafternight.
BOSTON CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA The BCO has inaugurated a new Young Artists Competition and its first winner is In Mo Yang, a Korean-born violinist studying at New England Conservatory. He’ll play Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, with which he won, on Sunday’s BCO program; also featured will be two Haydn works: the Symphony No. 35 and the Cello Concerto in
D major, with the young Korean cellist Meehae Ryo in her US debut. Dec. 14, 3 p.m., Faneuil Hall. 617-423-3883, www.bostonclassicalorchestra.org
Jeremy Eichler can be reached at jeichler@globe.com
Alexander Kopp MD PC shared New England Conservatory'sphoto.
December 9 at 10:59am ·
Congratulations In Mo! Elka and Alex Kopp
New England Conservatory
More congratulations to violinist In Mo Yang, student of Miriam Fried. On Sunday, he won the Boston Classical Orchestra’s Young Artists Competition. In addition to the $2000 cash prize, he was awarded the opportunity to perform a Mozart concerto with the BCO in Faneuil Hall, next Sunday, December 14 at 3 pm. Music director Steven Lipsitt will conduct a program of music by Gluck, Haydn, and Mozart.
For information, click on http://www.bostonclassicalorchestra.org/schedule-tickets/
Earlier this fall, In Mo was named the first prize winner in the 2014 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition held in New York in October. His prizes included the Victor and Sono Elmaleh Award of $5,000 as well as two years of concert management and a New York recital.
Born in Seoul, Korea in 1995, Yang is pursuing a Bachelor of Music at NEC where he is the recipient of the Laurence Lesser Presidential Scholarship. He has previously won second prize in the senior division of the 2014 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists and fourth prize at the 2012 Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover in Germany.
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Exceptional performance earlier today! InMo Yang received standing ovation for his Mozart performance with the Boston Classical Orchestra at Faneuil Hall.
— with InMo Yang and Steven Lipsitt.
— with InMo Yang and Steven Lipsitt.
Dear Friends,
In the Sunday Arts section of today's Boston Globe, there is a nice profile of violinist In Mo Yang, who just made his Boston concerto debut with BCO after winning first-prize in our (first) Young Artists Competition. (It's on page N5.) Even in this short "q-&-a" piece (written by Karen Campbell --- BCO's freelance publicist --- in her role as Globe correspondent), In Mo's special qualities come through powerfully.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2014/12/21/violinist-yang-competing-best/m4y1Xku0xJwIw2fgkmVN0J/story.html
Best wishes for happy holidays,
Steve
In the Sunday Arts section of today's Boston Globe, there is a nice profile of violinist In Mo Yang, who just made his Boston concerto debut with BCO after winning first-prize in our (first) Young Artists Competition. (It's on page N5.) Even in this short "q-&-a" piece (written by Karen Campbell --- BCO's freelance publicist --- in her role as Globe correspondent), In Mo's special qualities come through powerfully.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2014/12/21/violinist-yang-competing-best/m4y1Xku0xJwIw2fgkmVN0J/story.html
Best wishes for happy holidays,
Steve
At 19, violinist In Mo Yang is competing to be the best
By Karen CampbellGLOBE CORRESPONDENT DECEMBER 21, 2014
Age: 19
Hometown: Born in Indonesia of South Korean parents, Yang moved to South Korea at age 2 and was raised in Seoul. He came to the United States in August 2013 to study at New England Conservatory.
Think of: After Yang won the Boston Classical Orchestra’s Young Artists Competition this month, a financial supporter of the initiative, Alexander Kopp, said, “I think we’ve found our next Joshua Bell.” Yang’s teacher at NEC, Miriam Fried, calls him a unique talent. “His drive is amazing, but he is a very gentle person, very lyrical and tender in his playing in addition to having the power to play in front of an orchestra.”
What caught our eye: In addition to winning Boston Classical Orchestra’s Young Artists Competition — and soloing for the orchestra last week — Yang was second at the 2014 Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists and fourth at the 2012 Joachim International Violin Competition in Germany. In October, Yang took first prize in the 2014 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition held in New York.
Lightbulb moment: Playing violin since the age of 5, Yang calls his path “gradual. . . . There wasn’t a moment that I really felt this is going to be my whole life, but the more I knew about music, the more I loved it.”
Biggest thrill: “Playing in a senior center near our school for just a few patients and homeless people. I never played for those kinds of people and really felt I was communicating with my whole heart. It made me rethink what I have to be as performer. I’ve played in a really big hall in Seoul for 2000 people, and that’s really exciting, but this was something new. They didn’t know much about classical music, but we communicated, and they loved it, and I realized music is for everyone.”
Biggest surprise: Yang says minutes after he first landed in America, he found an e-mail from his father. “He had never sent me a sincere letter before then. [He said] he appreciated me for being such a good son and artist, and that he hoped I can be successful in this new environment and explore new things. The letter brought me to tears. Whenever I’m frustrated and tired and don’t know what’s ahead, I look at the letter, and it gives me so much energy and hope, and that really guided me in this life in Boston. I’m very grateful.”
Inspired by: “My parents — I feel their unconditional love even at this great distance. And my teacher, Miriam Fried. She is very supportive and I learn so much from her, from her playing, the way she behaves to her students. We know about music but also how to live as musicians, build up our own philosophies.”
Aspires to: “I aspire to be a very human violinist, to get as close as possible to the core of human expression. That will make me embrace a broader audience. I want the audience to feel what I feel.”
What people should know: “I never feel satisfied. I always think there are more things that I don’t know, a whole new world ahead of me. I try to get inspiration from other fields like art, literature. I try to treasure every moment. I have a few [friends] that are very close and I learn a lot from them, different perspectives. And I like sports. I play soccer every weekend with a small crew from NEC.”
Coming soon: Yang plays a solo recital Feb. 18 at 8 p.m. in NEC’s Pierce Hall, in preparation for Italy’s Paganini Competition.
Links: His performance from the Menuhin competition can be seen atwww.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsbe2wFBPs8
Karen Campbell can be reached at karencampbell4@rcn.com.
Here is a nice review from the Boston Musical Intelligencer of Boston Classical Orchestra's Sunday, December 14th concert.
http://www.classical-scene.com/2014/12/18/bco-18th-century/
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
a virtual journal and essential blog of the classical music scene in greater BostonLee Eiseman, publisher; Robert Levin, advisor; David Moran, assisting editor; Bettina A. Norton, emerita editor
in: reviews
DECEMBER 18, 2014BCO Steps Up in the 18th Centuryby Elisa BirdseyeMee Hae Ryo (file photo)
The Boston Classical Orchestra under Steven Lipsitt presented an outstanding Faneuil Hall program last Sunday, featuring Gluck, Haydn and Mozart. It was pleasing to know that what was being played was contemporary music in the building’s early decades.
The program opened with an amiable performance of Gluck’s Overture in D Major, an upbeat work of Allegro, Andante and Presto. The last movement, in three, had an elastic bounce on the first beat. Especially considering the name, it is hard to imagine a more cheerful composer.
Following was Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, featuring Mee-Hae Ryo, whose playing combines musicality and chops. Haydn was a fine cellist, and Ryo was a worthy advocate. The performance was more leisurely than some, but allowed the music to speak. The second movement Adagio stands out for a cradle-song sweetness, and the final Allegro’s rondo features a delightful walking tune.
After intermission we were treated to a performance ranking with the best of anything I have heard anywhere. The winner of BCO’s first Young Artists Competition, violinist In Mo Yang, has set the bar extraordinarily high for future winners. At 19, he has the goods, and it’s almost impossible to describe how violin and bow seemed an extension of his body, with no difficulty whatsoever no matter how challenging the music. The work he chose, Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish., can be heard everywhere, starting with countless auditions, yet Yang’s performance was natural and effortless, as if he were hearing the piece for the first time.
The first movement opens with busy orchestral music which the violin interrupts with a soaring, calm rebuke, and then takes up the fast music: “Here, this is the way you do it!” The whole work is a delicious dialogue between violin and ensemble, as though Mozart (who was himself 19 when he wrote it) were playing with an enormous toy box. Yang’s cadenzas were in style and evocative, so he is a historically imaginative musician as well as technically brilliant. In the second movement, the orchestra was a touch too loud, but gorgeous suspensions in the oboes could be heard. The concluding Rondeau features a “Turkish” march which has a menacing chromaticism foreshadowing Don Giovanni, and the final cadenza an almost Till Eulenspiegel naughtiness.
After the standing ovation, Yang came back to perform the Largo from the third Bach Violin Sonata. One of the difficult things here is to carve out the individual lines from the double stops, but it was as though two completely different violin lines were housed in the same instrument—a true duet and at the same time totally unified. If this young man records the Bach, it will be a must-have album.
Mo Yang (file photo)
Written to welcome the composer’s patron Prince Esterhazy home from a visit to Paris and Versailles, Haydn’s Symphony No. 35 served to honor the BCO’s 35th season at Faneuil Hall.. In spots the horn section had difficulty with the wicked high parts, but it seemed like a fall by an Olympic skater trying a quadruple lutz: sometimes it’s just not your night. Other times they sounded glorious, golden and sinuous, more than earning their bow.
The BLO really shone in the symphony; overall, the concert was one of the best of the season.
Elisa Birdseye, executive director of the Boston Chamber Ensemble, is an active freelance violist and principal violist of the New Bedford Symphony. Additionally, she has worked as the general manager of the New England Philharmonic and Boston Musica
© B. M. Int.
http://www.classical-scene.com/2014/12/18/bco-18th-century/
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
a virtual journal and essential blog of the classical music scene in greater BostonLee Eiseman, publisher; Robert Levin, advisor; David Moran, assisting editor; Bettina A. Norton, emerita editor
in: reviews
DECEMBER 18, 2014BCO Steps Up in the 18th Centuryby Elisa BirdseyeMee Hae Ryo (file photo)
The Boston Classical Orchestra under Steven Lipsitt presented an outstanding Faneuil Hall program last Sunday, featuring Gluck, Haydn and Mozart. It was pleasing to know that what was being played was contemporary music in the building’s early decades.
The program opened with an amiable performance of Gluck’s Overture in D Major, an upbeat work of Allegro, Andante and Presto. The last movement, in three, had an elastic bounce on the first beat. Especially considering the name, it is hard to imagine a more cheerful composer.
Following was Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major, featuring Mee-Hae Ryo, whose playing combines musicality and chops. Haydn was a fine cellist, and Ryo was a worthy advocate. The performance was more leisurely than some, but allowed the music to speak. The second movement Adagio stands out for a cradle-song sweetness, and the final Allegro’s rondo features a delightful walking tune.
After intermission we were treated to a performance ranking with the best of anything I have heard anywhere. The winner of BCO’s first Young Artists Competition, violinist In Mo Yang, has set the bar extraordinarily high for future winners. At 19, he has the goods, and it’s almost impossible to describe how violin and bow seemed an extension of his body, with no difficulty whatsoever no matter how challenging the music. The work he chose, Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish., can be heard everywhere, starting with countless auditions, yet Yang’s performance was natural and effortless, as if he were hearing the piece for the first time.
The first movement opens with busy orchestral music which the violin interrupts with a soaring, calm rebuke, and then takes up the fast music: “Here, this is the way you do it!” The whole work is a delicious dialogue between violin and ensemble, as though Mozart (who was himself 19 when he wrote it) were playing with an enormous toy box. Yang’s cadenzas were in style and evocative, so he is a historically imaginative musician as well as technically brilliant. In the second movement, the orchestra was a touch too loud, but gorgeous suspensions in the oboes could be heard. The concluding Rondeau features a “Turkish” march which has a menacing chromaticism foreshadowing Don Giovanni, and the final cadenza an almost Till Eulenspiegel naughtiness.
After the standing ovation, Yang came back to perform the Largo from the third Bach Violin Sonata. One of the difficult things here is to carve out the individual lines from the double stops, but it was as though two completely different violin lines were housed in the same instrument—a true duet and at the same time totally unified. If this young man records the Bach, it will be a must-have album.
Mo Yang (file photo)
Written to welcome the composer’s patron Prince Esterhazy home from a visit to Paris and Versailles, Haydn’s Symphony No. 35 served to honor the BCO’s 35th season at Faneuil Hall.. In spots the horn section had difficulty with the wicked high parts, but it seemed like a fall by an Olympic skater trying a quadruple lutz: sometimes it’s just not your night. Other times they sounded glorious, golden and sinuous, more than earning their bow.
The BLO really shone in the symphony; overall, the concert was one of the best of the season.
Elisa Birdseye, executive director of the Boston Chamber Ensemble, is an active freelance violist and principal violist of the New Bedford Symphony. Additionally, she has worked as the general manager of the New England Philharmonic and Boston Musica
© B. M. Int.
Friends,
Attached is a PDF with recent Boston Globe pieces about Boston Classical Orchestra's Sunday, December 14th program: the critic's tip and a "sidebar" about Haydn's Symphony No. 35 and the Palace of Versailles, both of which ran in Sunday morning's paper; and a review of the concert from Tuesday's paper. Remember the name of 19-year-old violinist InMo Yang --- he is someone to watch
Best wishes for happy holidays,
Steve
Attached is a PDF with recent Boston Globe pieces about Boston Classical Orchestra's Sunday, December 14th program: the critic's tip and a "sidebar" about Haydn's Symphony No. 35 and the Palace of Versailles, both of which ran in Sunday morning's paper; and a review of the concert from Tuesday's paper. Remember the name of 19-year-old violinist InMo Yang --- he is someone to watch
Best wishes for happy holidays,
Steve
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