3 to 4 p.m. in the garden
The Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY) presents a concert by violinist Jae-Won Bang of the Yale School of Music. The concert is free and open to all, but attendees should
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In case of rain, the concert will be held at a nearby indoor location. All registrants will be notified by e-mail if our rain location will be used.The Yale Alumni Association of Metropolitan New York (YAAMNY), in collaboration with the 6BC Botanical Garden, presents an afternoon out of doors concert by violinist Jae-Won Bang of the Yale School of Music on Sunday, November 1, 2009 from 3 to 4 p.m. at the 6BC Botanical Garden, on sixth street between Avenues B and C. This concert will continue rain or shine. In the event of inclement weather, Jae-Won will perform at the black box theater not far from 6BC at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts’ Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, at 113-A 2nd Avenue, between 6th and 7th Streets. All registrants will be notified by e-mail if our rain location will be used.
Korean-Canadian violinist Jae-Won Bang has been playing the violin since the age of five. At age thirteen, she made her orchestral debut performing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the White Rock Festival Orchestra in Canada. She has participated in numerous festivals and workshops such as the Domaine Forget Chamber Music Session and the Morningside Music Bridge in Canada , Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg , the Encore School for Strings in Ohio, Sarasota Music Festival in Florida, Kneisel Hall Festival in Maine and the New York Strings Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall. As a chamber musician she has collaborated with renowned musicians such as Martin Chalifour, Steven Dann, Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Amiram Ganz, Ronald Leonard and Arnold Steinhardt and has also actively participated in the Maestro Foundation's Chamber Music Academy for several seasons.
Recent engagements include performances with the Long Beach Festival Orchestra as the grand prize winner of the Long Beach Mozart Festival, serving as the associate concermaster of the Debut YMF Orchestra and representing the Yale School of Music at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC in the Millennium Stage's "Conservatory Project" series. Her previous teachers include Toni and Gerald Stanick and in 2008, she obtained her Bachelor of Music degree at the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, CA under the tutelage of Robert Lipsett. Jae-Won is currently pursuing her Master of Music degree at the Yale School of Music with Ani Kavafian.
