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Kevin Lee Sun
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Kevin Lee Sun interprets piano music old and new.
In 2011, Sun won the Silver Medal at the Waring International Piano Competition for his performances of the classical canon. In 2021, for his visionary programming of 20th-century music, he was the sole pianist to be named Finalist of that year’s Berlin Prize for Young Artists in Germany.
Sun has performed a diverse repertoire around the world, including at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna, the Villa Elisabeth in Berlin, and the Banff Centre in Canada. Masterworks for solo piano that Sun has performed in recital include Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy, Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Schoenberg’s Suite, and Hyo-shin Na’s Rain Study.
In 2024, Sun's debut album-his recording of Frederic Rzewski’s "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" (1975), an hour-long set of variations on the Chilean chant "¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!"-will be released on the Navona Records label.
In 2011, Sun won the Silver Medal at the Waring International Piano Competition for his performances of the classical canon. In 2021, for his visionary programming of 20th-century music, he was the sole pianist to be named Finalist of that year’s Berlin Prize for Young Artists in Germany.
Sun has performed a diverse repertoire around the world, including at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna, the Villa Elisabeth in Berlin, and the Banff Centre in Canada. Masterworks for solo piano that Sun has performed in recital include Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy, Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Schoenberg’s Suite, and Hyo-shin Na’s Rain Study.
In 2024, Sun's debut album-his recording of Frederic Rzewski’s "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" (1975), an hour-long set of variations on the Chilean chant "¡El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!"-will be released on the Navona Records label.
Colin Kemper: Buffalo (2020)
From a solo recital in Sacramento, California
THE ESSENCE OF THE SOUL: Kevin Lee Sun, piano
November 13, 2024 | Music At Noon series
PROGRAM NOTE
_Buffalo_ is a piece dedicated to several of my friends and their families who have lost their mothers. It was inspired by a Laura Kasischke poem of the same name, from the collection _Dance and Disappear._ The poem is a meditation on motherhood, spirituality, loss, and the intimacy found within life’s small joys. These elements become apparent through contrapuntal development, vertical harmonic progressions, and the unfolding of melodic ideas. They create imagistic moments that arise and recede at times gently and violently, much like the poem - an...
THE ESSENCE OF THE SOUL: Kevin Lee Sun, piano
November 13, 2024 | Music At Noon series
PROGRAM NOTE
_Buffalo_ is a piece dedicated to several of my friends and their families who have lost their mothers. It was inspired by a Laura Kasischke poem of the same name, from the collection _Dance and Disappear._ The poem is a meditation on motherhood, spirituality, loss, and the intimacy found within life’s small joys. These elements become apparent through contrapuntal development, vertical harmonic progressions, and the unfolding of melodic ideas. They create imagistic moments that arise and recede at times gently and violently, much like the poem - an...
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Hyo-shin Na: Song So Old (2022)
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Live in recital at Duquesne University THE ESSENCE OF THE SOUL: Kevin Lee Sun, piano September 27, 2024 | PNC Recital Hall PROGRAM NOTE The title and inspiration of _Song So Old_ for piano solo came from the text of a Navajo Native American song called _Coyote Songs._ This song was sung to dispel unwelcome spirits at the Navajo Enemy Way ceremony. The syllables of the text have no meaning; inst...
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Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! [Vars. 19-30]
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00:00 Theme - With determination 01:52 Variation 19 - With energy 02:41 Variation 20 - Crisp, precise 03:23 Variation 21 - Relentless, uncompromising 04:32 Variation 22 05:27 Variation 23 - As fast as possible, with some rubato 05:59 Variation 24 08:56 Variation 25 - With fluctuations 11:02 Variation 26 - In a militant manner 12:21 Variation 27 - Tenderly, and with a hopeful expression 18:38 Va...
Mozart: Sonata in D Major, K. 576
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Kevin Lee Sun performs Mozart's Piano Sonata in D Major, K. 576, live in recital at Eastman School of Music's Kilbourn Hall. 00:00 Allegro 03:49 Adagio 09:21 Allegretto
Hyo-shin Na: Cloud Study III (2018)
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Chihiro Kakishima, violin and Kevin Lee Sun, piano Live in recital at the Eastman School of Music Hyo-shin Na's Cloud Study III (published by Lantro Music) was inspired by Wisława Szymborska’s poem “Clouds." "Clouds" trans. Stanisław Barańczak & Clare Cavanagh I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds - a split second’s enough for them to start being something else. Their trademark: they d...
Schumann: Songs of the Early Morning, No. 1
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Kevin Lee Sun performs the first piece of Robert Schumann's Songs of the Early Morning (Gesänge der Frühe), Op. 133, in a recording at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. The tempo marking states, "In a tranquil tempo." Soon after he began experiencing auditory hallucinations, Schumann sent the five songs to his publisher in 1854, writing: "They are musical pieces that describe feelings at...
Schumann: Songs of the Early Morning, No. 5
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Kevin Lee Sun performs the fifth and final piece from Robert Schumann's Songs of the Early Morning (Gesänge der Frühe), Op. 133, in a recording at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. The tempo marking states, "At the commencement, tranquil; in the course (of the movement), more moving tempo." Soon after he began experiencing auditory hallucinations, Schumann sent the five songs to his publ...
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in B minor, WTC 1
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Kevin Lee Sun performs J.S. Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, live in recital at Eastman School of Music's Kilbourn Hall. 0:00 Prelude: Andante 3:42 Fugue: Largo The Prelude's "Andante" tempo marking, coupled with the Fugue's highly chromatic subject that is reminiscent of the Crucifixus from Bach's B minor Mass, evokes the scene of Christ carrying the ...
Hyo-shin Na: Rain Study (1999)
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Kevin Lee Sun performs Hyo-shin Na's Rain Study (1999), live at Stanford University's Dinkelspiel Auditorium. In 1997, Hyo-shin Na began writing a series of studies for solo piano. Rain Study (1999) is the second of that series. The musical material is based on a Korean folk song “Sanyombul,” whose words state: “The sun that sets will rise again tomorrow. A life that passes will never return.” ...
Eisler: Sonata No. 3 (1943)
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Kevin Lee Sun performs Hanns Eisler's Piano Sonata No. 3 (1943) in a recording from 2014. The sonata has three movements: 0:00 (♩= ca. 96) 3:42 Adagio 8:27 Allegro con spirito
Schoenberg: Suite, Op. 25
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Kevin Lee Sun performs Schoenberg's Suite for Piano, Op. 25 in recital at Stanford University's Campbell Recital Hall. The movements of the suite are: 0:00 Präludium 1:11 Gavotte-Musette-Gavotte da capo 5:30 Intermezzo 9:11 Menuett-Trio-Menuett da capo 13:13 Gigue
Schubert: Sonata in A minor, D. 845
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Kevin Lee Sun performs Schubert's Piano Sonata in A minor, D. 845, live at the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Sacramento, on the Music At Noon concert series. When Schubert went on a four-month tour of Upper Austria with singer Johann Vogl in the summer of 1825 (a year of good health and financial stability for Schubert), he carried with him and performed his recently composed Sonata in A m...
Schumann: Paganini Etude, Op. 10 No. 5
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Kevin Lee Sun performs Robert Schumann's Concert Etude after Paganini's Caprices, Op. 10 No. 5, in a recording at Stanford University's Campbell Recital Hall. The etude is based on Niccolò Paganini's Caprice No. 2 for solo violin. Notably, Schumann provides neither tempo indication nor any markings of dynamics. Recording engineer: Blaine Rister
Hyo-shin Na: Variations (1990)
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Kevin Lee Sun performs Hyo-shin Na's Variations (1990), live at the Sunset Center in Carmel. Na's conception of the piece began in 1988, when she moved from Colorado to San Francisco, driving across deserts and mountains. “I had even imagined it (in a naive sort of way) as music played in the remote and distant mountains,” she wrote for the Korea Times San Francisco. Na had recently ended her U...
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9
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Kevin Lee Sun performs Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9, live at the Sunset Center in Carmel. After Schumann's 1854 suicide attempt and subsequent confinement to a mental asylum, the 21-year-old Brahms wrote 16 variations on a theme from Schumann's Bunte Blätter, Op. 99, and sent them to Schumann.
Bach: Capriccio (for Leon Fleisher in masterclass)
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Bach: Capriccio (for Leon Fleisher in masterclass)
Bach: Goldberg Variations (Stanford Senior Recital)
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Bach: Goldberg Variations (Stanford Senior Recital)
So, so good.
Thank you so much! It's a beautiful piece.
this is incredibly beautiful, i dont know how to describe it. at times it seems incredibly late romantic, but thats just my ears. your playing is amazing as well, thank you for showing us such a rare piece
Thank you so much, I’m so glad you hear the beauty in the piece! And I’m grateful you appreciate my playing 🙏🏼
@@KevinLeeSun honestly i dont even think the composer would see himself worthy of such an attentitve and creative interpretation of his own work. bravo!!
@@KevinLeeSun what an amazing piece played by an amazing pianist, BRAVISSIMO!!
it's so good you should play more mozart!!!
This is beautiful, amazing performance.
Thank you so much!
Fabulous performance. Thanks for giving such careful attention to these wonderful pieces, making them sound both technically thrilling and musically sublime.
Thank you, Paul! That's certainly how I feel about them-thanks for putting it into words!
Follow your heart and talents.....confidence will lead you the way 🤗
Talented performance 😊🤗
Great performance 🤗🥰
wait this is so good
i didn’t pass clara haskil competition prescreening because one of the judges thought “it sounds like neither schumann nor paganini” 🙈
@@KevinLeeSun smh (like literally)
and you did grasp them rightly
Wonderfully intimate and poetically played
Thanks, Nick! That’s exactly what I was going for-so glad it came through!
Captivating
Thank you, Cobi!! I’d love to hear your take on it one day
sounds a bit as though Eisler became a Scriabinist for a while! He is an interesting polystylist.
Thanks for listening. This does have quartal passages and many interesting colors. I think he might have picked those things up from Schoenberg's First Chamber Symphony, but who knows what other music he studied?
Check out my recording of Schoenberg's Op. 33 as well!
this is so preciousss
Thanks! Yes, I was trying to channel earnest teenager Johann Sebastian ☺️
It's been a joy to behold your mature performances since 2008 when you drew 600 attendees to Sacramento's popular Music At Noon concert series. Your fans at Westminster wish you good health and much creative joy for many years to come.
Thank you, Brad. Wishing the same to all of you at Westminster, and hoping to return there soon
Beautifully controlled
Amazing piece
brilliant nice work !
good job
fyrexianoff Thank you 😊 Your channel has such interesting music, can’t wait to check it out!
Chaconne in d next?
That’s a great piece! Which version do you like? Busoni’s or Brahms’ for the left hand?
Kevin Lee Sun the busoni one is really nice
Very nice
Thank you 🙂
Woah
First time hearing?
@@KevinLeeSun Yup!
fantastic, nuanced performance. well done. it does seem a bit slow however
Nice Edward and Kevin, keep going is great/
So beautifully done!
Thanks so much, Rachel! It’s a beguiling work... I’ve enjoyed your latest Beethoven videos. Hope you’re well.
哇 孙老师又更新曲目了！太好听了 😍😍
好听也好玩! 我一月份才发现了Schumann Op. 10 六首练习曲 都很有趣 很奇怪没有人弹 🤷🏻♂️
Kevin Lee Sun 我听过Russian pianist Nikolai Petrov弹的这套曲目 但是第一次听到有朋友弹：） 弹得太棒了
This is a marvelous, masterful performance of a beautiful piece.
Thank you, James!
beautiful melody, chaste rhythm!
Bravo!
AHH KEVIN!! This is so awesome! You are the perfect person to be the commencement speaker! Congratulations on your graduation and on your great speech!!
Beautiful! Well done, Kevin and Edward!
Boss, represent Mira Loma Bro!