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Former Chiara Quartet members return to premiere music by White
Two former members of the Chiara String Quartet are returning to campus for a 7:30 p.m. April 24 performance in Kimball Recital Hall.
The duo — Hyeyung Sol Yoon, violin, and Gregory Beaver, cello — will premiere three new works by Tyler Goodrich White, professor of music at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. They will be joined by Karen Hsiao Savage, associate professor of collaborative piano and chamber music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Admission to the recital is free and open to the public.
White’s three works to be played are “Three Views from the Mountain” (second-prize winner, American Prize Competition for Instrumental Chamber Composition, 2020); Sonata for Violin and Piano, “Revelationes luventutis;” and “A Summer Sonata” for cello and piano (dedicated to the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In residence in the Glenn Korff School of Music from 2004 to 2018, the Chiara String Quartet for 18 years performed more than 500 concerts on three continents, earned a Grammy nomination, premiered 40 works and recorded seven albums.
Currently, Yoon and Beaver are co-founders of Open Space Music, a music event series whose mission is to create a multicultural space and fading away boundaries between artists and participants.
