FREE COMMUNITY RECITAL: CMNW Young Artist Institute Solo Showcase
CMNW’s Young Artist Institute (YAI) is a newly launched intensive education program for 16 talented string players from around the world, ages 14-18. The violinists, violists, and cellists selected for the YAI program are among the top high school string players from North America and Asia. The students have been winners or finalists in many of the most significant competitions in the world, such as the Menuhin and Sphinx Competitions, and hail from prestigious preparatory programs at the New England Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, Colburn Academy, Cleveland Institute of Music, Korea National University of the Arts, and Portland’s own Portland Youth Philharmonic.
Hand-in-hand with the YAI program comes the NEW Collaborative Piano Fellowship, featuring the talents of two exceptional graduate-level pianists. Selected from major conservatories, Pualina Lim Mei En and Yandi Chen will practice and perform alongside our Young Artists to learn and refine their skills in the challenging art of collaborative performance with a soloist.
“Supporting and educating young artists has been at the core of our work at Music@Menlo (where Gloria was institute director), and at the New England Conservatory and Yale School of Music (where Soovin teaches),” says Gloria Chien and Soovin Kim, CMNW Artistic Directors. “This Young Artist Institute is a dream come true, and we know it is going to affect the lives of the extraordinary students and the CMNW audiences. Our hope is to inspire and invigorate the love of chamber music through these bright, shining musical talents!”
Experience the Young Artist Institute musicians as they grow and evolve throughout their time with CMNW this summer!
The Mago Hunt Center
Friday, 6/24 • 7:00 pm PT