Andrew Balio, Trumpet
Jiin Kim, piano
Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 4PM
Ticket: $60
Renowned classical trumpeter, Andy Balio continues the season’s theme of the “iconic” featuring unique and inventive trumpet transcriptions of popular works by Schumann, Brahms, and Schubert. An afternoon of Romantic classics with a brassy twist!
hands down, the most magnificent, eloquent, communicative trumpet playing I have ever heard in my life.
FANFARE Magazine
Balio plays with incredible feeling and technical skills...
Classical.Net
Andrew Balio
Orchestral trumpeter Andrew Balio has been principal of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra since his appointment to the position by Yuri Temirkanov in 2001. For the 2014-15 season, he was also principal of the Oslo Philharmonic under the baton of Vasily Petrenko. From 1990 to 1993, he served as principal of the Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico; and in 1993, Zubin Mehta appointed him principal of the Israel Philharmonic, where he stayed through 2001. The 1999-2000 season had him serving additionally as principal of the Bergen Philharmonic. Balio has been a frequent soloist since his earliest days as a student, having made his debut at the age of 15 playing Haydn’s Concerto with the Milwaukee Symphony in his home state of Wisconsin. Over the years, he has appeared as soloist with various orchestras in Europe, the US, South America, and Asia under the batons of noted conductors Mehta, Venzago, Herbig, Temirkanov, Rozhdestvensky, Lintu, Stenz, and McGeegan. His Carnegie Hall solo debut, an important milestone, came in 2013 in the company of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and Maestro Constantine Orbelian. In 2012, Naxos issued his first solo recording, the Weinberg Trumpet Concerto with the St. Petersburg Symphony, inaugurating a string of other recording projects planned to document his repertoire. He also was soloist with the Oslo Philharmonic’s recent release of Scriabin’s Le Poéme de l’Extase. Most recently, he recorded a two CD set for Delos of his own transcription of music by J.S Bach for organ, recorded at the University of Notre Dame.
As a teacher, he has traveled extensively, presenting masterclasses throughout Europe, Asia, and South America. In the U.S., most notably, he has recently been instructor for the National Orchestral Institute and Carnegie Hall’s NYO-USA project with Michael Tilson Thomas. As a lifelong meditator, the yogic breathing practice for meditation, pranayama has figured prominently in his integrated approach to the trumpet. This knowledge was an ideal addition to the breath-centric wisdom of Charles Schlueter and Adolph Herseth.
The last and still emerging chapter in this biography is his founding of the Foundation for the Future of Classical Music, a nonprofit think tank dedicated to bringing the best thinkers and experts from outside the arts together to confront the various challenges facing orchestras and classical music both in the US and worldwide. He also serves on the board of trustees of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters.
Jiin Kim
Award-winning Korean pianist Jiin Kim enjoys a busy career performing as a soloist as well as collaborative artist in chamber music and large-ensemble works.
Ms Kim has won several competitions including the Harrison Winter Piano Competition, the William Knabe International Competition, the Korea Young Artist Competition and the YMIC International Competition. She has also won top prizes at the Hong Kong-Asia Open Competition, the Nanpa Competition and the Korea Herald Piano Competition.
Jiin has performed solo recitals throughout Korea, Europe, and the United States. Her performances include appearances at Uijeongbu Arts Center and Flugel Hall in Korea., Muiderslot in Holland, Musikhochschule Trossingen in Germany, and Carnegie Hall.
With a demonstrated interest in new music, she has appeared in the New Music Series Studio 2021 concerts in Ilsin Hall and the Museum of Art in Seoul. She has also premiered new compositions at the Seoul International New Music Conference and at the Joongang Music Concours.
Jiin has participated in Festival Musicalp, The International Holland Music Session, and the Obidos International Piano Festival. She has also played in masterclasses with Christopher Elton, Pascal Roge, Boris Berman, Mikhail Voskresensky, Oxana Yablonskaya, Oliver Kern, Phillip Kawin and Rebecca Penneys.
Jiin started playing piano at the age of three. She is a summa cum laude graduate from Seoul National University.
While earning her Master of Music degree at Peabody, she received the Pauline Favine Memorial Award in Piano. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Peabody studying with Ellen Mack.
