Music For Food: Folklore and Fairytales

“Folklore and Fairytales”

Sunday, February 4th at 4:00pm

Museum of Art Deland - 100 North Woodland Blvd

* All proceeds go to The Neighborhood Center - Donations Accepted at the Event

Jamie Clark - Professor of Cello at Stetson University

Patrick Yim - Professor of Violin at the University of Notre Dame

Program:

Duo for Violin and Cello - Zoltan Kodaly

Gobi Canticle - Lei Liang

Duo for Violin and Cello - Maurice Ravel

Performers:

Patrick Yim - Violin

Praised for his “deeply expressive, finely nuanced playing” (The Strad) and “superb performances” (Fanfare), Honolulu-born violinist and violist Patrick Yim made his solo debut with the Honolulu Symphony and has performed chamber music with Juilliard, Emerson, St. Lawrence, Pacifica, and Ying Quartet members, and musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Cleveland Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic. He performed with the Cleveland Orchestra on tour in the USA and Europe, and at Carnegie Hall with the Emerson Quartet violinists. His recordings, including numerous world premieres, have been published by Naxos, Navona, Ravello, and Acis. A strong advocate of contemporary compositions, Yim has commissioned more than 40 works to date, including a substantial body of work for violin with non-Western instruments. In 2024, Yim will perform the world premiere of Bamboo Grove, a new unaccompanied violin work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long, at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at Notre Dame. He earned his BM and MM from the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) and his DMA from Stony Brook University and his principal teachers were William Preucil, Philip Setzer, Hagai Shaham, David Updegraff, and Jennifer Frautschi. Yim previously taught at CIM, Hong Kong Baptist University, Interlochen, and Stony Brook. Yim is Assistant Professor of Violin at the Department of Music and Faculty Fellow at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, University of Notre Dame. (www.patrickyimviolin.com)

Jamie Clark - Cello

Jamie Clark of Boulder, Colorado has been praised for her sensitive, imaginative, and colorful sense of artistry. She has concertized throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia as a recitalist and a chamber musician. She has performed solo and chamber music recitals in venues such as Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Boston's Jordan Hall, Eastman's Kodak Hall, New York City's American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Both an enthusiastic chamber musician and entrepreneur of collaborative outreach programs, Jamie is a Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival, a non- profit organization based in Colorado. The festival strives to cross cultural, geographic, and temporal divides between performers, composers, and audience members, inspiring dynamic interaction within the entire Festival community.
Her commitment to community engagement has led to collaborations with the Music For Food initiative in Boston, the Second Chance Center in Denver, and Attention Homes in Boulder. A passionate advocate for interdisciplinary collaboration between performer and scholar worlds, Jamie has written a series of scholarly papers including The Art of Rehearsing: A Multidimensional Study in Rehearsing String Quartets and Schoenberg Quartet No. 2: Between the Twilight of Tonality and the Dawn of Early Expressionism.

An engaged collaborative partner with contemporary composers, Jamie recently received a Stetson University Summer Grant to fund “Hear Her Voice” in 2021. “Hear Her Voice” features seven solo cello commissions by outstanding, young, female composers. Each piece offers a distinct perspective of isolation experienced in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Jamie joined the faculty of Stetson University in the Fall of 2019 where she now serves as Assistant Professor of Cello and Coordinator of Chamber Music. Dr. Clark received her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree and Masters of Music Degree from the New England Conservatory with Laurence Lesser and Paul Katz. She received her Bachelors of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music with David Ying.

Host or Publisher Jamie Clark