【Violin techniques and notation
in contemporary works】
主講人: Benjamin Sung
日期:2018年05月21日(一)
時間:13:30~15:10
地點:北藝大音樂一館M102
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Associate
Professor of Violin at Florida State University, violinist Benjamin Sung is
also concertmaster of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, and violin
coordinator of the Brevard Music Center and principal second violin of the
Brevard Music Center Orchestra. Recent
concert highlights include the 2017 Brevard Music Festival; the first annual Festival
y Academia del Nuevo Mundo in Aruba; an appearance with the FSU University
Symphony Orchestra in Piazzolla's Estaciones Portenas for the 2016 ASTA
National Conference; and a TED talk for TEDx Fargo. His 2017-18 calendar
includes a complete Beethoven cycle with pianist David Kalhous, and a new solo
album featuring works by Sciarrino, Berio, Maderna, and Schnittke.
Sung
has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Camerata Romeu
of Havana, Cuba, the Virtuosi of Festival Internacionale de Musica in Recife,
Brazil, and the National Repertory Orchestra.
He is equally in demand as a chamber musician, having shared the stage
with great performers including pianist Monique Duphil, and cellists Antonio
Meneses and Marcio Carneiro. He is a
past winner of the Starling Award of the Eastman School of Music and the Violin
Fellowship of the Montgomery Symphony, and an Aaron Copland Fund Recording
Grant.
An
enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music, Sung has recorded the music of
composers Steve Rouse and Marc Satterwhite for Centaur Records, has performed
and taught for Studio 2021 at Seoul National University, and has worked with
many of the greatest composers of this generation, including John Adams, Pierre
Boulez, George Crumb, and Helmut Lachenmann.
He recently released an album of new American works entitled
FluxFlummoxed on Albany Records, a recording hailed by Fanfare Magazine as
"a brilliant performance of four superb works" with "impeccable
intonation and tone production."
Sung
holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied
with Oleh Krysa, and Master’s and Doctorate degrees from the Indiana University
Jacobs School of Music, from the studio of Nelli Shkolnikova. Sung also studied
at the Professional Training Program at Carnegie Hall, the Lucerne Festival
Academy, the New York String Seminar, and the Chamber Music Residency at The
Banff Centre. Benjamin lives with his wife Jihye and son Aiden in Tallahassee,
Florida, where he enjoys running, chasing Aiden around the yard, and everything
that comes out of Jihye’s kitchen.