Dr. Dawn Wohn
Violin recital given by Dr. Dawn Wohn, Assistant Professor of violin at the University of Wisconsin
Program
Dawn Wohn, violin
Yeon-Kyung Kim, piano
Florence Price (1887-1953)
Fantasie No. 1 in G minor (1933)
Jiyoun Chung (b. 1982)
Ariaria (2022)
I. Chang
II. Haegeum
William Grant Still (1895-1978)
Suite for violin and piano (1943)
I. African Dancer
II. Mother and Child
III. Gamin
Brief Break
Margaret Sutherland (1897-1984)
Nocturne (1944)
Amanda Maier (1853-1894)
Sonata for violin and piano in b minor (1874)
I. Allegro
II. Andantino-Allegretto, un poco vivace-Tempo primo
III. Allegro molto vivace
About Dr. Dawn Wohn
Praised as having “a joyful sense of freedom, and a pure, unencumbered tone” by BBC Music Magazine, violinist Dawn Dongeun Wohn has performed in concert halls across five continents including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. She has appeared as a soloist for live-broadcast performances with orchestras such as the Korean Broadcasting Symphony and the Aspen Conducting Orchestra, The New York Sinfonietta, and Japan’s Telemann Ensemble. In addition, she has performed recitals across the world including Carnegie Weill Hall, Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, and Jordan Hall.
Her debut solo album Perspectives, featuring works by female composers was featured by the New York Times, Spotify and Apple Music and was chosen as one of WQXR’s best albums of the year. Her recent release, Unbounded by Delos Music explores music by American women. Both albums have been featured on radio programs all over the world and have been noted for its “enlightened advocacy” (Gramophone), warm, crystal-clear tone” (Whole note), “stunning and panache” (IAWN) and “impassioned playing” (Classical Magazine).
As a musician with a wide range of styles and interests, Dawn often performs with new music ensembles and as guest concertmaster for orchestras in venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall to Radio City Music Hall. Recent projects include international tours with DJ Kid Koala and the Afiara Quartet as part of an interdisciplinary live show “Nufonia Must Fall”. As an active chamber musician, Dawn has performed at festivals such as International Musician’s Seminar Prussia Cove in England, The Banff Centre, Music@Menlo, and Aspen Music Festival. Notable collaborations include members of the Emerson, Miami and Tokyo String Quartets, as well as Colin Carr, Jason Vieaux and Roberto Plano.
Dawn began her violin studies at age 4 and trained at The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division as a full scholarship student of the renowned pedagogue Dorothy DeLay. Further studies include an undergraduate degree from The Juilliard School, a Master of Music and Artist Diploma from Yale University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University where she studied with Philip Setzer of the Emerson Quartet, Soovin Kim and Gilbert Kalish.
Committed to teaching the next generation of violinists, she is currently Assistant Professor of violin at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music and teaches at Rocky Ridge Music Festival during the summers. Previously, she held the position of Associate Professor of Violin at Ohio University’s School of Music as well as Associate Concertmaster of Harrisburg Symphony. As a guest artist she has presented and performed at institutions including Oberlin, New England Conservatory, NYU and Kansas University. She has also been on faculty of festivals such as the Rocky Ridge Music Festival, Académie Anglicorde in France, International Music Festival of the Adriatic in Italy, and Festival de Febrero in Mexico.
Dawn performs on a 1732 Nicolo Gagliano violin and is artistic director and co-creator of the newly formed Coppia Concerts- a multisensory concert series based in Fitchburg, WI. In her free time, she enjoys reading, baking and spending time with her husband Jay and son Jasper.
About Yeon-Kyung Kim
Pianist Yeon-Kyung Kim is from South Korea and explores the diverse branches with her classical piano training. As a sought-after chamber musician, Kim has been featured on various recitals and coached student chamber groups at Western Illinois University, where she had served as a full-time staff pianist. She recently recorded and performed an album of horn and piano music with members of St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. As an advocate of Korean art songs, she performed them with students at WIU and will present them at College Music Society conferences. Currently living in Champaign, IL, she works with musicians of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and serves as a part time collaborative pianist at DePauw University. Kim keeps teaching online and in-person after serving as an instructor of secondary piano at University of Cincinnati. (CCM) She presents her pedagogy research at the National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy, Music Teachers National Association Conference, and CMS, regionally and nationally. As an advocate of performing arts and showcasing young artists to their community, Kim has founded a non-
profit organization, Glow Music. Glow Music holds online collage concerts and their annual spring concert where performers, composers, and audiences connect. Kim completed her DMA in piano performance at CCM. Her teachers include James Tocco, Aviram Reichert at Seoul National University, Christopher Harding at University of Michigan, and Émile Naoumoff at Indiana University.