Chi Yong Yun Faculty Recital

Director of piano studies in faculty recital

Andrews University faculty pianist, Chi Yong Yun will be performing in a faculty recital on Saturday, March 27, 2010, at 8 p.m. This performance is the rescheduled date following the postponement of her March 6 performance. She will be performing Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 903 by J.S. Bach, Ballade No.2 in B Minor by Franz Liszt, Piano Sonata No.2 in G Minor, Op.22 by Robert Schumann as well as Miroirs by Maurice Ravel.This is a free concert.

Yun has a vast list of accomplishments behind her. Her performances as a recitalist, collaborative musician and lecturer have taken her throughout the United States, Korea, Europe and the Philippines. She is finishing her second year as director of piano studies and assistant professor of music at Andrews University.

Born in Seoul, Korea, Yun moved to the United States at the age of six. The recipient of many honors and awards, she received both her undergraduate and graduate degrees with honors from Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University as a Thomson Star Fellow. As an undergraduate, she pursued dual degrees having been accepted into the prestigious Performers Diploma program. Her piano studies at IU were under the tutelage of Edmund Battersby, Karen Shaw and Menahem Pressler. Yun is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with the internationally-acclaimed pianist Ian Hobson. The top prize winner of numerous international and national competitions, she has been invited to participate in such music festivals and workshops as Deeper Piano Studies with Frederic Chiu, Aspen Music Festival, Folgarida Summer Festival, and the Prague and Shandelee International Piano Festivals. She performed in master classes for legendary artists Leonard Hokanson, Gyorgy Sebok, Abbey Simon, Janos Starker, Andre Watts and Earl Wild. Additional studies include voice with Camilla Williams, Alan Bennett and Cynthia Hayman, and conducting with Carmen Tellez and David Effron. Prior to coming to Andrews University, she held teaching positions at Indiana University, University of Illinois and Illinois Wesleyan University.

Tickets for Chi Yong Yun's faculty recital are free! For more information, please visit www.howard.andrews.edu.