David Rogers & Wonkak Kim | Classical on Broadway

Name: David Rogers & Wonkak Kim | Classical on Broadway
Start: 2025-04-06T15:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-04-06T16:30:00-07:00
Location: 124 W Broadway, Eugene, OR, United States, Oregon 97401

Schedule

Sun Apr 06 2025 at 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

124 W Broadway, Eugene, OR, United States, Oregon 97401 | Eugene, OR

The Jazz Station's Classical on Broadway chamber matinee series presents guitarist David Rogers and clarinetist and Co-Artistic Director Wonkak Kim for an afternoon performance of music by Franz Schubert, Dario Castello, Mauro Giuliani, J.S. Bach and many others.

David Rogers guitar
Wonkak Kim clarinet

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM | $25

Termed, ‘a prominent guitarist,’ by the New York Times, and praised by The Washington Post for his ‘astonishingly florid’ improvisations, David Rogers Fuses classical, jazz, and world music into beautiful, expressive and virtuosic performances.
He has been called a 'modern master’ of the classical guitar' by 20th Century Guitar. Classics today.com has praised his ‘first rate instrumental artistry,’ and the Lute Society of America Quarterly has called his technique ‘formidable.’
He is an endorsing artist for Aquila Strings (Italy) and his music has been featured in major guitar magazines such as Fingerstyle Guitar in the United States and Akustic Gitarre, in Germany. His performances have been broadcast on American National Public Radio and Bayrische Rundfunk, including both the nationally syndicated Performance Today (live performance/interview in Washington D.C. NPR studio 4A) and Harmonia programs. David has recorded for Dorian, Callisto and Focus Recordings. He has given recitals and conducted master classes throughout North America, including performances and classes at the San Francisco Conservatory, the University of Southern California and The Interlochen National Arts Camp.
David has studied historical plucked strings with Hopkinson Smith and Eugen Dombois at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland; with Thomas Binkley at Indiana University; and with Lyle Nordstrom at Oakland University. He has studied guitar with Joseph Fava at Wayne State University. David was a musician with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for 18 years and taught at Southern Oregon University for 13 years.

Korean clarinetist Wonkak Kim has captivated audiences around the world with his “excellent breath control” (The Washington Post) and “exuberant musicianship” (Fanfare). Kim has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician at major venues throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. A Naxos Recording Artist, he has garnered international acclaim with his extensive discography: Gulfstream, a collection of new American chamber music, received many distinctions, including“Music US Choice” (BBC Music Magazine), “Recording of the Month” (MusicWeb International), and American Record Guide Critic’s Choice, and was praised for its “very highest quality” (Gramophone, UK). The International Clarinet Association Journal lauded Kim’s “sensitive playing, a lovely sound and consummate facility” in François Devienne: Clarinet Sonatas. On his most recent Naxos release of Stephen Krehl’s Clarinet Quintet, American Record Guide wrote: “Kim renders the Clarinet Quintet with a clear and nicely rounded timbre…with seamless blend and excellent legato.” Kim’s live and recorded performances have been featured on Radio France, BBC Radio 3, Swedish Radio, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CJPX Radio Classique Québec, Hong Kong RTHK-HK, Korean Broadcasting System, and NPR stations around the United States.

Kim actively performs chamber music with many of the world’s leading artists and has appeared at festivals such as Astoria, BargeMusic, Chamber Music Northwest, ISCM Pan Music (South Korea), Norfolk, OK Mozart, Oregon Bach Festival, and Osaka (Japan). Constantly exploring the vast repertoires for clarinet and strings by composers ranging from Mozart to Zwilich, he has collaborated with dozens of today’s rising-star string quartets, including the Grammy-winning Attacca and Parker quartets. Kim is a founding member of enhakē, the clarinet-violin-cello-piano quartet, which is in its 12th season and has been praised for its “rock solid rhythmic integrity” as well as its “strength in balance, intonation, and musicality” (The New York Concert Review). With the group, Kim has toured throughout the world, most notably at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, Osaka’s Izumi Hall, Seoul Arts Center, International ClarinetFest, and the Promising Artists of the 21st Century Series in Costa Rica under the auspices of the US Department of State. His latest CD with enhakē entitled Prepárense: The Piazzolla Project on MSR has been described as “positively delightful…[t]he sense of ensemble is near-miraculous” (Fanfare) and received high praises from Gramophone: “The playing throughout is sublime…The intensity is real, the sounds gorgeous, the rhythm infectious…this version strides proudly alongside the legendary recording by Piazzolla himself.”

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