Suyoen Kim
“Suyoen Kim plays with the technical brilliance and musical maturity that earned her the attention of conductors such as Kurt Mazur and Seiji Ozawa at the age of 18 - poignant and beautiful!”
- The Strad -
“Suyoen Kim's version will bring tears to the eyes of all but the most hardened listeners.”
- BBC Music Magazine -
Suyoen Kim was born in Münster (Germany) in 1987 and received her first violin lessons at the age of five. At the age of nine, she became the youngest young student in Germany to transfer to the Münster University of Music, where she continued her studies until graduating in June 2008 and then completed postgraduate studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich and Kronberg Academy.
She has been first concertmaster of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin since 2018 and has also been a member of the renowned Artemis Quartet since 2019.
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Thomas Hoppe
For many years a congenial partner at the piano for artists such as Itzak Perlmann, Vilde Frang, Tabea Zimmermann and many others. He is also a professor and lecturer at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.
... and also artistic advisor for feingeistmusik.
April. 09, 2025 - 7:30pm
(doors open 6:45pm)
Suyoen Kim (violin)
Thomas Hoppe (piano)
program
Béla Bartók – Romanian folk dances
Researching and developing the authentic music of the peasants in what was then the Kingdom of Hungary was of great concern to Bartók. He collected countless folk melodies in Transylvania and turned them into a suite of 7 folk dances. The rustic charm and undisguised authenticity of this music are fascinating - Bartók's Romanian folk dances literally taste like a village tavern.
Karol Szymanowski
– Myths for violin and piano op.30
Szymanowski was inspired by Greek mythology when composing this three-part suite in 1915. The work is considered an important milestone in 20th century violin composition and was greatly admired by Szymanowski's contemporaries such as Béla Bartók and Sergei Prokofiev - also due to the intensive use of the most demanding violin techniques.
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César Franck - Violin sonata in A major
Franck had to fight for recognition from the French for a long time before he later even became president of the Société Nationale de Musique founded by Camille Saint-Saëns. The violin sonata is one of his three great chamber music works - pioneering in form and expression.
Franck dedicated the sonata to none other than Eugène Ysaie, who premiered it in Brussels in December 1886 and also played the two acclaimed Paris performances in 1887. In Ysaie's concert programs, the sonata quickly began its triumphal march around the world. It was generally recognized as the most important French violin sonata of the fin de siècle.