Heejae Kim

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Award-winning Korean pianist Heejae Kim, who has been called “a pianist of passion and sensitivity,” will be the featured artist in the third concert of Steinway Society – The Bay Area’s 25th Anniversary Season. The concert will be held November 17, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. at Independence High School in San Jose. A pre-concert talk starts at 1:45 p.m. The artist will be available to meet the audience following the concert.

Ms. Kim made her debut at the Prodigy Concert Series of South Korea’s Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation, and has since concertized in Europe (including Brussels, Leipzig, Paris, and Barcelona), the UK, South Africa, as well as her native South Korea. She has won awards in ten national or international piano competitions. In 2015, she won the Terence Judd—Halle Orchestra Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition, where her performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 made her the audience favorite.

“Genial, engaging…. And utterly absorbed in the music in every bar.’’
--The Guardian

PROGRAM:
Rachmaninoff, Selected Preludes from Op. 23 and Op. 32

1. Op. 32, No. 1 in C Major (Allegro vivace) 

2. Op. 23, No. 7 in C Minor (Allegro) 

3. Op. 32, No. 5 in G Major (Moderato) 

4. Op. 23, No. 5 in G Minor (Alla marcia) 

5. Op. 32, No. 10 in B Minor (Lento) 



Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition

1. Promenade 

2. Gnomus (“The Gnome”) 

3. Promenade 

4. Il vecchio castello (“The Old Castle”) 

5. Promenade 

6. Tuileries (Children’s Quarrel after Play) 

7. Bydło (“Cattle”) 

8. Promenade 

9. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks 

10. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuÿle 

11. Promenade 

12. Limoges: The Market (The Great News) 

13. Catacombs (Roman Tomb)—Con mortuis in lingua mortua (“With the Dead in a Dead Language”)
14. The Hut on Fowl’s Legs (Baba Yaga) 

15. The Great Gate of Kiev 



INTERMISSION

Schumann, Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17

I. Durchaus phantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen (“Perform Very Imaginatively and Passionately”) 

II. Mäßig: Durchaus energisch (“Moderate: Very Energetic”) 

III. Langsam getragen: Durchweg leise zu halten (“Solemnly Slow: Play Quietly Throughout”) 


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