Contact:Gretchen Miller Basso
Public Relations Director
The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra
Phone: 407/896-6700 x 223
Fax: 407/896-5512
gmiller@orlandophil.org
www.orlandophil.org
(Orlando, FL – November 2, 2010) – The Orlando Philharmonic presents an evening of romantic music and fabulous musicianship at its concert, Young Romantics, presented on Saturday, January 8, 2011 at 8:00 PM at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, 401 W. Livingston Street, Orlando. Young Romantics is the fifth concert in the orchestra’s Super Series. The Series sponsor is Darden Restaurants Foundation.
Music Director Christopher Wilkins leads the Orlando Philharmonic in this program, which includes Rossini’s The Barber of Seville: Overture and Schumann’s Symphony No. 2.
Pianist Yekwon Sunwoo, the 2008 winner of the Florida International Piano Competition, takes the stage to perform Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2. David Glerum writes of the piece in the program notes to the concert, “Chopin made no effort to establish an equal partnership between soloist and orchestra. Chopin’s instrument and world was the piano, and in this concerto the piano takes and holds center stage.”
Sunwoo, 21, from AnYang, Korea, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2005 and studies with renowned pianist Seymour Lipkin. Beginning his piano studies at eight years old, Sunwoo was chosen out of three hundred students to receive the prestigious Music Achievement Award at Yewon Arts Middle School. He performed as a soloist with the Daegu Orchestra in 2002 and the Yewon Orchestra in 2003.
Sunwoo made his New York City debut in 2009 performing at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as First Prize winner of the inaugural 2008 Florida International Piano Competition, where he was the youngest competitor. His other awards include First Prize in the Concours International de Piano “Interlaken Classics,” Switzerland; First Prize in the California International Young Artists Piano Competition; First Prize in the Daegu Broadcasting Competition; First Prize in the Ewha-Kyung Hyang Competition; and Grand Prize in the Kukmin-Ilbo/Hansei University Competition.
As soloist, Sunwoo has appeared with the Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra in Seoul. At the invitation of the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation, he also performed on tour in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Panama. He has attended the Summit Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Toronto Summer Music Academy and Festival, and he performed with Curtis President Roberto Diaz on the Bay Chamber Concerts summer series in 2008. In October 2010, Sunwoo’s performance tour in Germany, the Czech Republic and Russia concluded with the recording of his solo CD with Classical Records in Moscow as part of his First Prize at the 2008 Florida International Piano Competition.
Pro-rated subscriptions to the Orlando Philharmonic’s Super Series are presently on sale. Single tickets to Young Romantics are $14.75, $29, $39, $52, $70. To purchase subscriptions and single tickets, phone the Philharmonic’s box office at 407-770-0071, or visit the Philharmonic’s website at www.orlandophil.org.
For further information on the Florida International Piano Competition, visit www.Floridapiano.org.
