String Chamber Music by Kangwon Kim and Friends

Sunday, January 26, 4 PM

Kangwon Kim, violin
Hillary Hempel, violin
Micah Behr, viola
James Waldo, cello

Kangwon Lee Kim, Assistant Artistic Director and Concertmaster of Madison Bach Musicians, is an active performer on both baroque and modern violins. She has given concerts throughout the U.S. and in Korea, Canada, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Norway, and Czech Republic. She has performed with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Brandywine Baroque, Wisconsin Baroque Ensemble, and Indy Baroque Orchestra.  Dr. Kim has collaborated with world-renowned musicians including Menahem Pressler and Laurence Lesser.  She has earned her degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, and Manhattan School of Music.

Dr. Kim served as Assistant Professor at Biola University and has also taught at Ripon College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Lawrence University Conservatory. During the summers, she teaches at the Madison Early Music Festival and Credo Chamber Music Festival, and serves as director of the MBM chamber music workshop.

This January Program will include Bach’s “Goldberg” variation arranged for string trio, Haydn Quartet op. 64, no. 5, “the Lark”, and “Italian Serenade” by Hugo Wolf.