Hyunjung Choi & Sonia Lee

Celebrate the spring season and International Women’s Day with music of Beethoven, Amy Beach, Biber, and more.

Violinist Hyunjung Choi, a native of Seoul, is music faculty at Sungshin Women’s University, Kangwon University, and Chungnam National University in South Korea. Choi is co-founder of the string quartet Quatro Ewha and founder of Alla Classica, an ensemble devoted to music of the Classical period. She is also the founder of The New Baroque Company, which, under her direction has created large-scale productions.

Pianist Sonia Lee Lee holds graduate degrees in music from McGill University and the University of Illinois. She is lecturer in music at California State University, San Bernardino, staff pianist at Río Hondo College, and music director and principal organist at St. Mary in Palms Episcopal Church in L.A. and Christ Church Parish in Ontario.

Program

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1706)
Passacaglia for solo violin (1676)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, Op. 24, “Spring”

Lionel Newman (1916–1989)
Arranged for solo piano by Edward David Zeliff
Adventures in Paradise

Ned Washington (1901–1976)/Paul Francis Webster (1907–1984) and Bronisław Kaper (1902–1983)
Arranged for solo piano by Edward David Zeliff
On Green Dolphin Street/Follow Me

Amy Beach (1867–1944)
Romance for violin and piano, op. 23

Vittorio Monti (1868–1922)
Csárdás