Concert Performance by Colin Carr (violin) and Kyungwha Chu (piano)

Colin Carr appears throughout the world as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher. He has played with major orchestras worldwide, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, the orchestras of Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Philadelphia, Montréal and all the major orchestras of Australia and New Zealand. Conductors with whom he has worked include Rattle, Gergiev, Dutoit, Elder, Skrowasczewski and Marriner. He has been a regular guest at the BBC Proms and has twice toured Australia. With his duo partner Thomas Sauer he has played recitals throughout the United States and Europe including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Wigmore Hall in London. Colin has played complete cycles of the Bach Solo Suites at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Gardner Museum in Boston and in Montreal, Toronto, Ottowa and Vancouver. Over the last few seasons he performed 25 cycles of the suites in the USA, Europe, and Asia. As a member of the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio, he recorded and toured extensively for 20 years. Chamber music plays an important role in his musical life. He is a frequent visitor to international chamber music festivals worldwide and has appeared often as a guest with the Guarneri and Emerson string quartets and with New York’s Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Recent CD releases include the complete Bach suites on the Wigmore Live label and the complete Beethoven Sonatas and Variations on the MSR Classics label with Thomas Sauer. Colin is the winner of many prestigious international awards, including First Prize in the Naumburg Competition, the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Award, Second Prize in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition and also winner of the Young Concert Artists competition. He first played the cello at the age of five. Three years later he went to the Yehudi Menuhin School, where he studied with Maurice Gendron and later William Pleeth. He was made a professor at the Royal Academy of Music in 1998, having been on the faculty of the New England Conservatory in Boston for 16 years. In 1998, St. John’s College, Oxford created the post of “Musician in Residence” for him, and in September 2002 he became a professor at Stony Brook University in New York. Colin’s cello was made by Matteo Gofriller in Venice in 1730. He makes his home with his wife Caroline and 3 children, Clifford, Frankie and Anya, in an old house outside Oxford.

Award-winning pianist Kyungwha Chu performs as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Asia and Europe. Her performances have included appearances at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and 92nd Street Y, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Ms. Chu has appeared as a soloist with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Jeju Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, Royal Conservatory of Music Orchestra, and Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra. Her awards include top prizes in the Korean Broadcasting System Competition, Korean Newspaper Music Competition, Bad Bertrich Internationaler Klaviersommer, Baltimore Music Club Competition, as well as in concerto competitions at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Royal Conservatory of Music, and Stony Brook University. In 2010, she participated in the Professional Training Workshop at Carnegie Hall where she worked with Yo-Yo Ma and Pamela Frank and was one of seven students of Leon Fleisher to perform all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in a one-day marathon concert. In the Fall of 2018, Ms. Chu led the Stony Brook University Symphony Orchestra in a conductorless performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto. In 2021, she made her debut in Naples, Italy as a winner of the Sigismund Thalberg International Piano Competition. Ms. Chu holds a Bachelor’s degree in piano performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, an Artist Diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music, and a Master’s Degree and Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where she was a fullscholarship student of Leon Fleisher. She is currently a DMA candidate and a teaching assistant at Stony Brook University.