The NAC-CBC Debut Series features Quebec violinist Karen Gomyo with pianist Jean Desmarais on April 17
April 07, 2003 -
Ottawa, Canada -- The Debut Series, co-presented by the National
Arts Centre and CBC Radio Two, continues on Thursday, April 17 with
Quebec violinist Karen Gomyo accompanied by pianist Jean Desmarais in
the NAC Studio at 12:00 noon. Karen Gomyo, who won the 1997 Young
Concert Artists International Auditions just one week after her
fifteenth birthday, and went on to become the youngest artist ever to
be presented in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York, will
give a recital of music by Mozart, Morawetz, Prokofiev, von Vecsey
and Piazzolla.
These hour-long recitals give young Canadian musicians the
opportunity to perform at the National Arts Centre and to have their
recitals recorded and broadcast nationally on CBC Radio Two.
Admission is $2.00 with all proceeds going to the NAC Orchestra
Bursary Trust Fund. Additional donations to the Fund are greatly
appreciated.
Karen Gomyo will perform the Sonata in G major for Violin and
Piano by Mozart; Duo by Canadian composer Oskar Morawetz;
Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor by Prokofiev; Valse
Triste by Franz von Vecsey, and Libertango by Astor
Piazzolla.
The dazzling young violinist Karen Gomyo has appeared as soloist
with many orchestras, including the Minnesota Orchestra conducted by
Eiji Oue and Claus Peter Flor, the National Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Christopher Hogwood, and the Tokyo and Hiroshima
Symphony Orchestras. Through Young Concert Artists, Ms. Gomyo made
her Washington, DC recital debut at the Kennedy Center, her New York
concerto debut with the New York Chamber Symphony at Alice Tully
Hall, and gave a five-city recital tour of Japan, including a concert
at Suntory Hall in Tokyo. She has performed at The Louvre in Paris,
on the Ravinia Rising Stars Series, and on the Seattle Symphony
Recital Series.
Born in Tokyo in 1982, Ms. Gomyo moved to Montreal in 1984. She
began to play in public soon after her first violin lessons at the
age of five. She studied with the noted teacher Dorothy DeLay on full
scholarship at The Juilliard School and continued her studies at the
University of Indiana/Bloomington, and is now at the New England
Conservatory of Music. Ms. Gomyo plays the rare "Ex Foulis"
Stradivarius of 1714 that is on permanent loan to her from a private
sponsor.
Debut Series recitals take place in the NAC Studio at 12:00 noon.
Admission is $2.00 with all proceeds going to the NAC Orchestra
Bursary Trust Fund. Additional donations to the Fund are greatly
appreciated.
