My summer music festival, MusicIC, returns for our ELEVENTH season!
Hello Friends! Looking for something to listen to this weekend? Eleven years ago, I started a summer music festival called,…
J.S. Bach Partita No. 3 in E Major for solo violin, BWV 1006 | Gavotte en Rondeau
Hi Friend! 안녕 친구! Here’s me “fiddling” around, messing with ornamentation and mini-improvisations in the Gavotte en Rondeau from J.S. Bach’s…
Chen Yi “Memory” for solo violin (2011)
Hi Friend! 안녕 친구! Here’s Chen Yi’s haunting “Memory” for solo violin (2011). Here, too, is a short note from…
Anthony Cheung, “Character Studies,” No. 1: “DRAMATIS PERSONAE” (2016)
Hi Friend! 안녕 친구! Check out Anthony Cheung’s “Character Studies,” No. 1: “DRAMATIS PERSONAE” (2016). Anthony incorporates some very cool…
Isang Yun’s “Die Hungrige Katze (The Hungry Cat),” from “Li-na im Garten”
Hi Friend! 안녕하세요! Hello from Seoul, where I’m in quarantine before I begin my Fulbright grant residency! Here’s some music by Isang Yun…
IIRY Podcast: 37. I won a Fulbright Award!
Hello friends! I hope you are staying warm and safe out there…So, I have some pretty big news to share:…
Jessie Montgomery’s Rhapsody No. 1 for solo violin
Hi Friend! Here’s music from the brilliant composer and violinist, Jessie Montgomery: her Rhapsody No. 1 for solo violin, written in 2014. I…
S’more Bach
Hi Friend! Some more music as we round the corner into February (WAT? When did *that* happen?? O.o) Please to enjoy, Bach’s…
Knuckle-busting Paganini
Hi Friend! One silver lining of this seemingly never-ending pandemic is that I have time to practice for practice’s sake. Usually…
Bach as Self Care
Hi Friend! Well, so far 2021 has some explaining to do — it’s been a rough week, so far, huh?…