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NHSO To Perform Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody On a Theme of Paganini
New Haven, CT December 22, 2008: Ring in the New Year with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Music Director William Boughton for The End of an Era: Thursday, January 29, 7:30pm at Woolsey Hall. On the program: Bernstein’s Candide Overture, Rachmaninov’s gorgeously extravagant work, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini featuring Korean pianist, Jennifer Lim and Elgar’s Symphony No. 2.
The exciting Korean-Canadian pianist Jennifer Lim has been praised on three continents for her interpretations of composers as disparate as Chopin and Bach. The Korea Times called her “a genius at the keyboard… [whose] wizardry left the audience spellbound.” New York Concert Review noted of a Chopin performance that “Ms. Lim stormed the citadels and never for a moment lost forward-plunging momentum; her virtuosity was impressive.”
In recent years she has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Lima, Seoul, Taiwan, Romania, and Germany, and throughout Canada, the United States. Her all-Chopin CD (Greenhouse/Schott label) received rave reviews from such notable European publications as Fono Forum, Audiophile, and Piano News, and was the subject of a Chopin Special on the Bayerischer Rundfunk, where Ms. Lim was lauded as “the only young artist who can play Chopin . . . with the greats such as Argerich, Pogorelich, Michelangeli and Kapell.”
Apart from her solo activities, Ms. Lim is an avid chamber musician. She has performed at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Festival Vancouver, Toronto’s Mooredale concert series, the Primrose Memorial concert series in Utah, and others. Her New York City debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2001 was met with critical acclaim.
Ms. Lim began her piano studies before she was five and made her first public appearance a year later, receiving critical attention when she captured Grand Prize at the Korea Times National Music Competition. In 1994, she was accepted at the Curtis Institute of Music on full scholarship to study with Peter Serkin as his only student. Upon graduation in 1998 she was awarded the coveted Rachmaninoff/Festorazzi Prize. She completed her master’s degree at the Juilliard School in 2000 as a protégée of the legendary pianist Bella Davidovich. Ms. Lim has also studied privately with Anton Kuerti and Jane Coop since she was a teenager.
Single tickets ($10-65) can be purchased through the NHSO Box Office at the Shubert Theater, 247 College Street in New Haven, (203) 562-5666 or by visiting newhavensymphony.org.
All programs subject to change without notice.
