Rubin Museum of Art Launches New Classical Music Series

Violinist Hahn-Bin opens the series in recital on September 19

New York City -- This fall the Rubin Museum of Art launches Resonating Light, a new classical music concert series featuring many of today's leading artists.  Violinist Hahn-Bin will open the season with a recital on September 19 at
6 PM. 

All concert presentations at the Rubin Museum of Art are programmed to reflect the museum's exquisite collection and exhibitions. Additionally, works of art portrayed in the concerts can be simultaneously projected behind the musicians during the performances. The violinist Hahn-Bin, for example has chosen as his theme The Five Poisons, invoking the elemental desires that keep mankind bound on the wheel of eternal suffering, a seminal idea in Tibetan Buddhist art.

"When musical artists discover themes that resonate with them in an artform they previously knew so little about - and find that their music can expand upon those ideas and act as a bridge between art and the audience - then I feel the museum is doing its job providing a new way of seeing art and a new way of hearing music."  - Tim McHenry, Producer of Resonating Light

Award-winning broadcaster Elliott Forrest will host the Resonating Light series.
CONCERT INFO
Sunday, September 19 @ 6 PM
Hahn-Bin, Violin
John Blacklow, Piano

Rubin Museum of Art
150 West 17th Street
New York, NY  10011



PROGRAM:

Antonin Dvorak (arr. Kreisler):          Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op. 55, No.4

Camille Saint-Saens:                           Dance Macabre

Henrik Wieniawski:                             Légende

Frederic Chopin (arr. Milstein):          Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. Posth.

Krzysztof Penderecki (arr. Edinger): Cadenza

Alfred Schnittke:                                 Stille Nacht

John Cage:                                           In a Landscape

Maurice Ravel:                                     Sonata for Violin and Piano
                                                                         II. Blues: Moderato
                                                                      III. Perpetuum mobile: Allegro

Claude Debussy:                                   La plus que lente

Pablo de Sarasate:                               Carmen Fantasy


Tickets are $20
Online:       www.rmanyc.org/resonatinglight
By Phone:   212-620-5000 ext. 344
In Person:  Admissions Desk at the Rubin Museum of Art
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Violinist Hahn-Bin has won critical acclaim for his "extraordinary, intelligent and beautiful" performances (The Washington Post) and his "inspired, bracing and innovative" programs (The New York Times).

First Prize Winner of the prestigious Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Hahn-Bin made his New York debut at Carnegie's Zankel Hall as recipient of the Peter Marino Concert Prize, and his Washington debut at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, both to rave reviews. Recent highlights include his Paris debut at the Musee du Louvre, his Australian debut with the Queensland Orchestra, and concerts throughout the U.S. Hahn-Bin's first CD was released by Universal Music Korea and features works by Pärt, Janácek, Poulenc, Ravel, and Prokofiev. 

Born in Seoul, Hahn-Bin moved to the U.S. at the young age of eleven to study with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, and later with Itzhak Perlman at The Juilliard School. Hahn-Bin came to international attention at the age of twelve when he appeared at the 42nd Grammy Awards in a Salute to Classical Music honoring the legendary Isaac Stern.
ABOUT THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART

The Rubin Museum holds one of the world's most important collections of Himalayan art.  Paintings, pictorial textiles, and sculpture are drawn from cultures that touch upon the arc of mountains that extends from Afghanistan in the northwest to Myanmar (Burma) in the southeast and includes Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia, and Bhutan. The Rubin Museum has a history of commissioning new music works, most often from jazz composers but also contemporary composers Huang Ruo and Sir John Tavener, whose Towards Silence was given its world premiere last spring. The concerts will take place in the museum's theater, praised for its exceptional acoustics and intimate atmosphere.


Yamaha is the official piano of the Rubin Museum of Art.

Rubin Museum of Art is a cultural partner of Classical 105.9 FM WQXR

Concerts at the Rubin Museum are made possible by a generous grant from the Carlo and Micól Schejola Foundation.
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