January 6, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Maggie Estes, Director of Marketing, mestes@cliburn.org,
817.738.6536
Fort Worth, Texas, January 6,
2011:
The Van Cliburn Foundation presents Dong-ill
Shin at Broadway Baptist
Church in Fort Worth on Sunday, January
23, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. in a
concert featuring works by renowned French composers Charles-Marie
Widor, César Franck, Jehan Alain, and Marcel Durpé. The program
also includes two works by francophile American composer William
Bolcom, who will be in attendance. Single tickets are $25 for
general admission and can be purchased from Central Ticket Office
at 800.462.7979 or online atCliburn.org. A special discounted rate of $20
per ticket is available for groups of 10 or more. Email groupsales@cliburn.org for details.
Audience members are invited to stay for a question
and answer session in the sanctuary with Shin and
composer William Bolcom immediately following the
performance.
Winner of the 20th Grand Prix de Chartres in
2006, Dong-ill Shin is internationally
recognized as "one of the world's most promising talents of his
generation" (L'Echo Républicain, France). Heralded for his
"formidable discipline and considerable musicality" (Dallas
Morning News), Shin is in demand as a performer and has been a
featured artist on many international radio and television programs
including KBS Radio (Korea); NHK Satellite Radio (Japan); France
Musique, Radio France, and Mezzo Television (France); Spanish
National Radio; and Pipedreams on American
Public Radio, among others.
Beginning his musical studies as a child, Shin took first prize in
the national competition for piano sponsored by the Korean
Times at age 10 and debuted with the Pusan Philharmonic
Orchestra at age 11. Attracted by the "kaleidoscopic,
orchestra-like colors" of the organ, he began his study of the
instrument at age 14. After earning his degree in Korea, Shin moved
to France to study at the Conservatoire national supérieur de
musique et de danse in both Paris and Lyon where he completed the
prestigious Cycle de Perfectionnement, the highest level program in
the French Conservatory system.
He has since been named a major prize winner at competitions in
Japan, Lithuania, Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom, and has
served as the Associate Organist at Boston University's Marsh
Chapel and Interim Director of Music at Boston's Jesuit Urban
Center. Shin is currently the
Organist/Artist-in-Residence at First United Methodist Church of
Hurst, TX and adjunct professor of organ at Texas Wesleyan
University.
The program, heavily influenced by his French studies, highlights
the superb acoustics of the Broadway Baptist Church and makes full
use of the glorious Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn
organ, the largest instrument of its kind in Texas and the
largest organ of French design in the world.
Shin's program will include:
Charles-Marie Widor- Allegro
Vivace from Symphony for Organ No.5, op.4, no.1
William Bolcom- Gospel Prelude "What a Friend We
Have in Jesus"
Free Fantasia on "O Zion, Haste" and "How Firm a Foundation"
Jehan Alain- Variations sur un thème de Clément
Janequin
Deuxième Fantaisie
Litanies
Marcel Dupré- Variations sur un vieux Noël
César Franck- Troisième Choral en la mineur
About the Van Cliburn Foundation
The Van Cliburn Foundation disseminates classical music worldwide,
and launches and nurtures young artists' careers through the
quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the
ensuing three-year international concert tour of its medalists,
award-winning documentaries, and a syndicated radio series
dedicated to the competition and its most memorable performances.
By making the competition available in its entirety on the
Internet, the Foundation has extended its outreach to listeners in
every corner of the globe.
For audiences in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, the Van Cliburn
Foundation promotes great music and world-class artists through the
annual Cliburn Concerts series. It reaches over 30,000 elementary
school students annually with the education programs
of Musical Awakenings®. In 1999, it established the
quadrennial International Piano Competition for Outstanding
Amateurs™, which The Boston Globe proclaimed "a
celebration of music, and the people who have to make music, no
matter what." The sixth Amateur Competition will be held May 23-29,
2011 at Ed Landreth Auditorium on the campus of TCU.
Visit Cliburn.org to learn more about the
Cliburn as it approaches the 50th anniversary of the first Van
Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Mr. Bolcom's appearence is funded in part
through Meet the Composer's MetLife Creative
Connections program.
ExxonMobil is the Principal Corporate
Sponsor of the Van Cliburn Foundation.American
Airlines; Crystelle Waggoner Charitable
Trust, Bank of
America,Trustee;Steinway &
Sons; and XTO Energy Inc. are
Official Corporate Sponsors. Official Sponsors are
the Amon G. Carter
Foundation, Arts Council of Fort
Worth & Tarrant County, Beaumont
Foundation of America, the Burnett
Foundation, the Sid W. Richardson
Foundation, and the T. Boone Pickens
Foundation. Star-Telegram is
the exclusive print media sponsor, and WRR 101.1
FM is the official radio station of Cliburn
Concerts.
