8pm<\/p>","photos":[{"photo":235705,"caption":""}],"venue":"
Lee Hysan Concert Hall, Esther Lee Building, Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong<\/p>","speaker_name":"
Performers: Poon Kiu Tung, Patrick Yim, and students from CUHK Music Department<\/p>","speaker":"
Kiu Tung Poon<\/strong> Patrick Yim Free admission with registration<\/p>\r\n
\r\nYoung Steinway Artist, Kiu Tung Poon<\/strong>, has appeared as a recitalist and collaborative pianist on concert stages worldwide, and at venues and festivals including Tanglewood and Aspen in US, Wiener Konzerthaus in Austria, St Martin-in-the-Fields in London and the Great Wall in Beijing.\u00a0 Her solo playing was described as \u2018lyrical and emotionally nuanced... displayed lyricism and virtuosity\u2019 by the Woodstock Times<\/i>. Her world premi\u00e8re of Mark Morris\/Samuel Barber\u2019s Excursions <\/i>with the Mark Morris Dance Group at the Tanglewood Music Festival received enthusiastic review in The New York Times <\/i>and Boston Phoenix<\/i>. Her Naxos release on violin and piano works by contemporary American composers was noted as being \u2018lively and authoritative\u2019 (American Record Guide<\/i>), having an \u2018effective presence\u2019 (The Strad<\/i>), and \u2018fresh, adventurous, and beguiling\u2019 and \u2018beautifully crafted and extremely sensitive\u2019 (Fanfare<\/i>). Her album on living Chinese composers\u2019 early piano works is recently released by Naxos on their specialised piano label Grand Piano. Another Naxos album on Chen Yi\u2019s works for violin and piano will be released in 2026. Graduated from the Indiana University Bloomington and the University of Texas at Austin with a DMA in piano performance, she currently teaches\u00a0at her alma mater The Chinese University of Hong Kong as a senior lecturer in performance, and serves as the performance stream coordinator in the Department of Music. www.kiutung.com<\/a><\/p>\r\n
\r\n<\/strong>Praised for his \u201cdeeply expressive, finely nuanced playing\u201d (The Strad Magazine<\/em>), \u201cdazzling technique and passionate interpretations\u201d (The Whole Note<\/em>), and \u201cvivid imagination\u201d (Fanfare<\/em>), Honolulu-born violinist Patrick Yim made his solo debut with the Honolulu Symphony, and has performed chamber music with Juilliard, Emerson, St. Lawrence, Pacifica, and Ying Quartet members, and musicians from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Cleveland Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic. He performed with the Cleveland Orchestra on tour in the USA and Europe, and with the Emerson Quartet violinists at Carnegie Hall. His recordings, including numerous world premieres, have been published by Albany, Naxos, Navona, New Focus, Ravello, and Acis. A strong advocate of contemporary compositions, Yim has commissioned over 50 works, including a substantial body of work for violin with non-Western instruments. In 2024, Yim performed the world premiere of\u00a0Bamboo Grove<\/em><\/a>, a new unaccompanied violin work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Zhou Long commissioned for him by the University of Notre Dame, at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. In 2026, he will give the premiere of Zhou Long\u2019s first violin concerto. He earned his Bachelor of Music with Academic Honors and Master of Music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University.
\r\n<\/strong>Yim\u00a0<\/span>is Assistant Professor of Violin in the Department of Music, Faculty Fellow at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, and Faculty Fellow at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame. www.patrickyimviolin.com<\/a><\/p>","admission":"