Albert Kim, assistant professor of music at Linfield College, will present a piano recital on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Richard and Lucille Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall at Linfield.
Kim, who joined the Linfield music department last year, will present a solo program featuring some of Ludwig van Beethoven’s sonatas, including the “Waldstein” and Opus 111.
A dedicated chamber musician, Kim has performed in the chamber music master classes of Robert Levin and Menahem Pressler and coached with Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma and others. Most recently, he completed and premiered an original instrumental transcription of Strauss’ “Salome” for the Tabletop Opera in Rochester, New York. Last summer, he taught with Eastman College as part of the “Eastman in China” tour. He is the winner of the 2008 concerto competition and performed Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 2 with the Eastman Philharmonia.
During the 1998-99 concert season, Kim was selected by Carnegie Hall to participate in the European Concert Hall Organization’s “Rising Stars” program. He is active as a composer and arranger, with an original song cycle and a piano-contrabass arrangement of Piazzolla tangos and a publication of his solo piano transcription of Ravel’s “La Valse.” He teaches piano, theory, keyboard skills and chamber music at Linfield.
He holds a bachelor’s of arts degree in music from Harvard University, and both a master’s in music and a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Linfield Department of Music at 503-883-2275 or visit linfield.edu/arts.
