BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Music Center Artistic Advisors Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson welcome two colleagues with thorough Vermont connections for a collaborative performance on Sunday, April 28, at 4 p.m. at the BMC.
Husband and wife violinist Soovin Kim and pianist Gloria Chien join Laredo and Robinson for this special Chamber Music Series concert featuring two unassailable quartets for piano and strings.
The two couples will present Quartet in E-flat Major by Mozart and Quartet in C minor by Gabriel Fauré. Kim and Chien will also perform the Sonata for violin and piano by Maurice Ravel.
Soovin Kim grew up in Plattsburgh, N.Y., and travelled across Lake Champlain for five years to play in the Vermont Youth Orchestra. He went on to win the Niccolò Paganini International Competition, the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the Henryk Szeryng Foundation Career Award.
He has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and South America and, in 2008, founded the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington.
Taiwanese-born pianist Gloria Chien made her orchestral debut at the age of 16 with the Boston Symphony. A former member of CMS Two, she performs frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
In 2009, she launched String Theory, a chamber music series at the Hunter Museum of American Art in downtown Chattanooga. In 2010, she was appointed director of the Chamber Music Institute at the Music@Menlo Festival. In 2017, she joined her husband, Soovin Kim, as co-artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival.
BMC Artistic Advisors Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson are members of the string faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Laredo is artistic director and conductor of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.