Music Notes for June 12

We welcome this Sunday guest violinist Mimi Jung who plays unaccompanied works by J.S. Bach at the Prelude and at the Communion. Just graduated from Carnegie Mellon University, Mimi is about to begin her Master's studies in Maastricht, Holland with Prof. Yuzuko Horigome. Brought to St. Paul’s by parishioner Tommy Thompson, Mimi was one of four CMU students in the Lila Ensemble who performed Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the end of Time” in concert here on Sunday May 1. A native of California, Mimi started violin at the age of four and a half. She has been part of the Colburn Chamber Orchestra as the Co-Concertmistress as well as the American Youth Symphony. Her love for performing has brought her to venues such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Athenaeum Main Concert Hall in Bucharest, Romania.

Mimi was a semi-finalist of the Spotlight Music Competition in Los Angeles and was named the first place winner of the Edith Knox Concerto Competition. She was also a prize winner of the American Fine Arts Festival International String Competition and received the Audience Prize and Director’s Award from the International Concerto Competition hosted at the Music in the Mountains Festival in Durango, Colorado. She was a recipient of the Los Cancioneros Master Chorale scholarship and will be featured in the 2013 Los Cancioneros concert series.

Next Wednesday, June 15 at 7:00 pm, The Friends of Music Guild Concert Series sponsors a special summer concert featuring Olga Redkina. This concert is a prelude to her cello camp she offers here at St. Paul’s, June 15 through 18. Among other works, her concert will feature “Variations on a Rococo Theme” by Tchaikovsky. To register for Olga’s cello camp at St. Paul’s and to receive further information, go to OlgaRedkina.com.