IEN OUT OF THE SOUND BOX CONCERT 2025

Wednesday, March 19, 2025
19.00h
Sala Oriol Bohigas – Ateneu Barcelonès
Carrer de la Canuda, 6, Barcelona

American classical music represents not only a diversity of styles but a diversity of identities, and musicians from all over the world who make the United States their home in the last century have enjoyed a unique integration of academia and philosophy with composition and performance.

One of the least explicitly stated questions that has been repeatedly explored is the diverse relationships people can have to music, rather than just the compositional intent in the musical work.

This program highlights this variety of experiences through voice (literally and figuratively) in humorous, poetic, and virtuosic contexts to celebrate American composer-performer-philosophers of the last 100 years

Concert Program

Personnel

Max Tan, violinist

Taiwanese-American violinist Max Tan has been praised as “eloquent” (New York Times) and “warmly rhapsodic” (Boston Globe) for “rhetorical playing that transcends the barlines” (Wieniawski Gazette). Forging a varied career as performer and educator, he has performed internationally on some of the world’s most venerable stages, soloing with the Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, The Juilliard Orchestra, amongst others. His performances have been broadcasted on WQXR (New York), WFMT (Chicago), WSMR (Sarasota), Musiq3 (Belgium), Polish Radio and Radio Poznan (Poland).

Recipient of the 2023 Gershen Cohen Violin Award, Dr. Tan made his Carnegie Hall recital debut with pianist Marisa Gupta on April 3, 2024. Notable festival appearances include La Jolla Summerfest, Ravinia, Music@Menlo, YellowBarn, Chelsea Music Festival, and Prussia Cove. He has given the premieres of works by important living composers in North America and Asia, including Sur la corde raide by French composer Jean-Frederic Neuberger, Phylogenie by Japanese composer Misato Mochizuki, Night Scenery by Chinese composer Sang Tong, and chamber works by Catalan composer Marc Migó. His writings about music have appeared in The Juilliard Journal in New York and L’education musicale in France, as well as Juilliard School Library Manuscript Treasures: By and for Performers published by Scala. Dr. Tan’s dissertation research centers on the provenance of unpublished arrangements of Chausson’s Poème and other notable works for violin, piano, and organ by Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe, the first recordings of which will be released in the coming months. His performances of these newly uncovered works have taken place in New York and Sarasota, Florida. In October 2023, he gave a lecture-performance on Ysaÿe’s arrangement of Chausson’s Poème at the Tianjin Juilliard School’s library opening, and also taught seminars on performance practice to students at Tianjin Juilliard and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

A Harvard alumnus and current doctoral candidate at Juilliard, Mr. Tan is founder and artistic director of Soundbox Ventures, which launched the Suncoast Composer Fellowship Program, the 2024 Suncoast Composer Festival, as well as the Listen Hear Salon Concerts series. He is concertmaster of Opera Philadelphia and assistant faculty of violin and chamber music at Juilliard’s Pre-College, in addition to maintaining his private studio. His mentors at Juilliard include Catherine Cho, Donald Weilerstein, and Itzhak Perlman.

Jinhee Park, pianist

Jinhee Park is a dynamic artist with a passion for music and a wide range of vocal and instrumental repertoire.

As a collaborative pianist, Jinhee, in collaboration with soprano Meredith Wohlgemuth, has received international recognition as the first prize winner at the Schubert International LiedDuo 2023 in Dortmund and the Concours International Musical de Montréal (Artistic Song Division) in 2022. She also received awards for best pianist at both competitions.

Since 2018, Jinhee has joined the Chautauqua Institution Voice Conservatory as a vocal instructor, working with Marlena Malas. Her interest in working with young singers is evident in her participation in several opera productions, such as Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and I Capuleti i i Montecchi. In 2023, Jinhee conducted Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges.

As a chamber musician, she was named one of the official pianists at the Concours International Musical de Montréal in the 2023 violin edition. She also holds the position of official pianist of the Hudson Valley String Competition. She has performed in concerts in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Korea, and actively collaborates with internationally acclaimed musicians such as Stella Chen and Timothy Chooi.

In addition to her musical performances, Jinhee has a deep commitment to music education and the development of young talent. In addition to the Chautauqua Institution, she is also on the faculty of the Perlman Music Program, where she works extensively with cellists. Throughout the school year, she maintains a collaborative partnership with violinist Catherine Cho of the Juilliard School, serving as a studio pianist and mentor to Cho’s students. In the fall of 2024, she joined the Manhattan School of Music as a faculty member in the Vocal Arts department, with a primary focus on song repertoire.

Jinhee received her BA from Seoul National University, followed by a MA from the Juilliard School. To further her musical education, she earned an Artist Diploma from the Manhattan School of Music under the guidance of distinguished mentors such as Jonathan Feldman, Warren Jones, Margo Garrett, and Lydia Brown. Jinhee is currently a doctoral student at the Juilliard School as a C.V Starr Doctoral Fellow. In 2015, Jinhee moved to the US from South Korea, and now calls the vibrant heart of New York City her home.

Marisa Karchin, soprano

Soprano Marisa Karchin is a compelling performer of contemporary music, art song, and opera. She is a doctoral student at The Juilliard School and a recipient of the 2023-24 Presser Award for her project bridging chamber music and environmental initiatives on Governors Island. An avid proponent of new music and interdisciplinary performances, she has performed diverse chamber music at Juilliard, including Pierrot Lunaire and Unsuk Chin’s Akrostichon-Wortspiel at Alice Tully Hall, and has recently performed with dance company Jody Oberfelder Projects, the Brooklyn New Music Collective, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and Da Capo Chamber Players. She has premiered many works with the Chelsea Music Festival, and has held artist residencies at Yellow Barn and Avaloch Farm Music Institute with her chamber music collective, Glass Clouds. Marisa was awarded first prize in the 2018 Joy in Singing International Art Song Competition, and has been an artist in residence with Dayton Opera and Opera Saratoga.