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Chamber Music Showcase to Take Place Thursday

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Chamber Music Showcase 2019

Lee University’s School of Music will present Chamber Music Showcase on Thursday, April 7, at 4:15 p.m. in Pangle Hall. The event will be co-directed by Dr. Gloria Chien, artist-in-residence at Lee, and Dr. ChoEun Lee, assistant professor of collaborative piano and vocal coaching at Lee.

“We are very excited for our upcoming Chamber Music Showcase,” said Chien. “We are particularly excited this semester to have our first brass quintet, which we hope to continue in future years in chamber music.”

The debuted brass quintet will comprise two trumpets, a trombone, a French horn, and a tuba. The group will perform the third movement of Victor Ewald’s “Brass Quintet No. 1.”

Along with the brass quintet, the showcase will feature a woodwind trio performing the first movement of “Trio for Clarinet, Saxophone, and Piano,” by Leon Stein; a vocal chamber group featuring a soprano, mezzo-soprano, and two pianists performing selections from “Liebeslieder Waltzes Op. 52” and “Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes Op. 65,” by Johannes Brahms; and a vocal chamber group, a soprano, mezzo-soprano, and guitar, performing Barbara Strozzi’s “Sonetto Proemio dell’Opera.”

Lee University’s School of Music’s chamber music program focuses on classical music performed by small ensembles. The participating students audition and are placed into duos, trios, or other groupings. Throughout the semester, these ensembles meet with faculty members from Lee’s School of Music each week for coaching and critique. The Chamber Music Showcase highlights the achievements the chamber ensembles have made throughout the semester.

Chien is the co-artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon, as well as the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont, along with her husband, violinist Soovin Kim. In the fall of 2009, she launched String Theory at The Hunter, a chamber music series at the Hunter Museum of American Art in downtown Chattanooga, as its founder and artistic director. For the last decade, Chien was the director of the Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo. She frequently appears with the Chamber Music Society (CMS) and is a Steinway Artist.

Chien, along with her husband Kim, also recently received the Chamber Music Award for Extraordinary Service to Chamber Music from the CMS for their dedication to bringing chamber music to people via digital concerts throughout the pandemic.

Faculty at Lee since 2016, Dr. Lee has given numerous performances across the world in major venues including Carnegie Hall, Ozawa Hall (Tanglewood Music Center), and Harris Concert Hall (Aspen Music Festival). She was twice invited to the Tanglewood Music Festival and was named a recipient of the Grace B. Jackson Prize. She has been invited as a repetitor to the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz and most recently, she world-premiered a co-commissioned vocal chamber music for soprano, saxophone, and piano by Lori Laitman in the National Opera Center in New York City.

This free concert is non-ticketed and open to the public.

The concert will be available via livestream at leeu.live/.

For more information about this performance or upcoming events, contact the School of Music at (423) 614-8240, or visit leeumusicconnect.com.

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