Introduction
While the holidays this year have not been the same without the company of others, Music For You wishes to share the whimsical joys of a magical season through the "Winter's Joy" Benefit Concert.
Welcome to our 2020 Benefit Concert! This year, we are excited to have professional musicians, Music For You musicians and young guest musicians all performing classical music representing the spirit of the holidays... through a virtual format!
As this season is all about giving, all of our proceeds will be donated to the Direct Relief Foundation, a nonprofit foundation that seeks to “improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergency situations." To donate, please visit our GoFundMe through HERE.
Welcome to our 2020 Benefit Concert! This year, we are excited to have professional musicians, Music For You musicians and young guest musicians all performing classical music representing the spirit of the holidays... through a virtual format!
As this season is all about giving, all of our proceeds will be donated to the Direct Relief Foundation, a nonprofit foundation that seeks to “improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergency situations." To donate, please visit our GoFundMe through HERE.
date and LOCATION
The "Winter's Joy" Benefit Concert will premiere on Youtube.
Saturday December 19, 2020 7:00 pm PST
For the link to the livestream, visit HERE
Saturday December 19, 2020 7:00 pm PST
For the link to the livestream, visit HERE
Performers
Guest Artists:
Cecilia Huang and Sue-mi Shin, violin
Elizabeth Tomlin, piano
Guest Young Adult Musicians:
Eliana Shin and Andrea Wang, cello
Music For You Artists:
Richard Bai, Evan Chin, Janine Jiang, Grace Liu, Karina Thendean, Connor Tomlin, Emerson Yu and Yu-Ting Chen.
Cecilia Huang and Sue-mi Shin, violin
Elizabeth Tomlin, piano
Guest Young Adult Musicians:
Eliana Shin and Andrea Wang, cello
Music For You Artists:
Richard Bai, Evan Chin, Janine Jiang, Grace Liu, Karina Thendean, Connor Tomlin, Emerson Yu and Yu-Ting Chen.
PROGRAM
Antonio Vivaldi’s “Winter I” from Four Seasons
Johann Sebastian Bach and Charles Gounod’s “Ave Maria,”
Franz Liszt’s “Christmas Tree”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Russian Dance from Nutcracker”
Carl Nielsen’s “The Dream of Mary Christmas.”
Johann Sebastian Bach and Charles Gounod’s “Ave Maria,”
Franz Liszt’s “Christmas Tree”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Russian Dance from Nutcracker”
Carl Nielsen’s “The Dream of Mary Christmas.”
MEEt OUR GUESt artists
Violinist Sue-mi Shin, a native of Korea, has been an avid chamber musician, orchestral player, and educator in the SF Bay Area. She is a member of Opera San Jose orchestra and Monterey Symphony, and often performs with Symphony Silicon Valley and San Jose Chamber Orchestra among many others. As a chamber musician, she is a founding member of the
LEAF piano trio and has served as a music director of SF Sonnet Ensemble. She has given numerous solo and chamber music concerts in New York, Connecticut, Georgia, South Carolina and California, as well as overseas performances in Spain, France and South Korea. As an educator, she has beenon a faculty member at Oikos University in Oakland and Notre Dame Namur
University in Belmont. She holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music and Yale University in Violin Performance. Since March 2020, she has dedicated the majority of her time to her growing
private studio.
LEAF piano trio and has served as a music director of SF Sonnet Ensemble. She has given numerous solo and chamber music concerts in New York, Connecticut, Georgia, South Carolina and California, as well as overseas performances in Spain, France and South Korea. As an educator, she has beenon a faculty member at Oikos University in Oakland and Notre Dame Namur
University in Belmont. She holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music and Yale University in Violin Performance. Since March 2020, she has dedicated the majority of her time to her growing
private studio.
Violinist Cecilia Huang received her B.A. in Music from the National Taiwan Normal University, and Master of Music in Violin Performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Ms. Huang has enjoyed an active performance career. She was a member of the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan and held the position of Lecturer of Violin in Shih-Chien University. She was a founding member of the Arco String Quartet (Taipei) and Arioso Piano Trio (SF Bay Area), and has toured Taiwan, the US and Europe as a soloist and chamber music/orchestra musician. Ms. Huang joined the Oakland Symphony in 1999. Other Bay Area groups she has performed with include the Pleasanton Chamber Players, Livermore Valley Opera, Classical Philharmonic, Festival Opera, Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, San Jose Symphony, Pacific Chamber Orchestra, among many others.
Cellist Eliana Shin is a junior at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View and has been playing the cello for over nine years. She studies with Jonathan Koh, and previously learned from Irene Sharp and Eric Sung through the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music pre-college program. Eliana currently plays as principal cellist with the Peninsula Youth Orchestra and toured Europe with them in summers 2017 and 2019. She also played with KAMSA Youth Orchestra for the past few summers. Eliana plays chamber music through workshops and has also won solo awards at competitions, including Korea Times, Junior Bach, and Great Composers Competition Series. Most of all, Eliana loves collaborating with other young musicians, whether it’s bringing an emerging composer’s work to life or having jam sessions with her band. In school, she is a staff editor for the newspaper and literary magazine, and was selected to give a TEDx talk in spring 2021. Eliana loves to read, mix audios, and talk to friends and family in her free time.
Conservatory of Music pre-college program. Eliana currently plays as principal cellist with the Peninsula Youth Orchestra and toured Europe with them in summers 2017 and 2019. She also played with KAMSA Youth Orchestra for the past few summers. Eliana plays chamber music through workshops and has also won solo awards at competitions, including Korea Times, Junior Bach, and Great Composers Competition Series. Most of all, Eliana loves collaborating with other young musicians, whether it’s bringing an emerging composer’s work to life or having jam sessions with her band. In school, she is a staff editor for the newspaper and literary magazine, and was selected to give a TEDx talk in spring 2021. Eliana loves to read, mix audios, and talk to friends and family in her free time.
Cellist Andrea Wang, 16, has been studying piano with Ms. Zita Sándor for more than 10 years. Her passion with string instruments started with violin lessons with her mother, violinist Cecilia Huang, and then transitioned to cello for which she studied with Paul Rhodes and currently with Jonathan Koh. Her competition awards include 1st place (2014, 2017) and 2nd place (2015) in USOMC Piano Concerto Competition; 4th place in MTAC Branch Piano Competition in 2019; 4 times 1st place awards in the International Great Composers Competition, and was selected as a recitalist in Junior Bach Festival in 2019 and 2020. Andrea is currently the Principal Cellist in Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra. She attended the Sequoia Chamber Music Workshop in the summer of 2018 and 2019, and was accepted by the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, the Interlochen Arts Camp and the Philadelphia International Music Festival for the summer of 2020. Besides music, Andrea enjoys origami, reading, writing, learning foreign languages, fine arts, computer coding, among many others.
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