The Spring Academy Faculty Recital on April 2nd in the City of Fairfax’s Old Town Hall was a wonderful success, featuring 9 of our amazing music teaching artists, and attended by a diverse crowd of approximately 75 community members.
The program included a rich mix of chamber (small ensemble) music repertoire and varied combinations of instrumentation. Classical guitarists Suzanne Dorman and Christopher Jenkins began the recital with a duo performance of “Prayer” by Frederic Hand.
Flautist Nayoon Choi joined Suzanne Dorman to perform two pieces by Astor Piazzolla, “Oblivion” and “Libertango”.
Vocal Soprano Seon Gyu Park, Nayoon Choi, and Pianist Faith Zuniga also performed two pieces. “Destiny” by Wonju Lee depicted a Korean love story (see video below), and “Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiβ” (from Giuditta) by Franz Lehar portrayed a rather brash, self-confident German woman.
The program was completed with two robust numbers from this year’s official Academy Faculty String Quartet – Violinist Claire Allen, Violinist Hyunji Lee, Violist Patrick LeStrange and Cellist Zachary Whitaker – who presented Antonin Dvorák’s “Quartet No. 12 in F Major, I. Allegro”. Joined by Faith Zuniga, they concluded the recital with Robert Schumann’s “Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, I. Allegro brilliante”.
The Academy would like to thank all of the performers and audience members for attending this special event, and we would like to once again gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the City of Fairfax Commission on the Arts for helping to make this performance possible.