2023-2024 SEASON

Jayce Ogren, Music Director and Conductor

Soyeon Kate Lee, piano

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ARTIST AND PROGRAM CHANGE NOTIFICATION

We regret to inform you that our piano soloist Orli Shaham is sick and unable to join us for our upcoming concerts this weekend. We are wishing her a speedy recovering and hope to bring her back for a future concert!

We excited to announce that pianist Soyeon Kate Lee will be joining us this weekend for the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20.

The West Coast Premiere of Light Forming will be replaced with Wagner's Siegfried Idyll. Light Forming was written specifically for Orli Shaham and so we will not be able to debut it at this time.

We look forward to seeing you this weekend!

Thank you,
Jayce and the Monterey Symphony Staff

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The Santa Lucia Preserve stretches from Carmel south to San Luis Obispo County. Lucia is Latin for "light," and Santa Lucia was famous for lighting her way to Christians hiding in Roman catacombs by wearing a candlelit wreath. With works such as Mozart's Overture to Don Giovanni and Wagner's Siegfried Idyll , Music Director Jayce Ogren compares the works on this program to the artistic technique of chiaroscuro—light and shadow. Listeners can feel connections between finding hope amid the darkness like in George Walker's Lyric for Strings, honoring important relationships that are full of light, as well as those that are full of darkness. The concert features pianist Soyeon Kate Lee for the Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 by Mozart.

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MOZART Overture to Don Giovanni, K. 527 [Running Time 7']

WAGNER Siegfried Idyll [20']

—intermission—

George WALKER Lyric for Strings [6']

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466 [30']
Soyeon Kate Lee, piano

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SOYEON KATE LEE

First prize winner of the 2010 Naumburg International Piano Competition and the 2004 Concert Artist Guild International Competition, Korean-American pianist Soyeon Kate Lee has been lauded by The New York Times as a pianist with "a huge, richly varied sound, a lively imagination and a firm sense of style," and by the Washington Post for her "stunning command of the keyboard."

Highlights of recent seasons include appearances at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Monterey Bay Chamber Music, and performances with the Eugene Symphony. She also returned to the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Carlos Miguel Prieto, and collaborated in concert with the Escher and Daedalus String Quartets.

Lee has been rapturously received as guest soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, symphony orchestras of Columbus, Bangor, Boca Raton, Eugene, Wyoming, Bozeman, Hawaii, Wheeling, Cheyenne, Napa Valley, Scottsdale, Abilene, Naples, Santa Fe and Shreveport in the United States; the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra (South Korea), Ulsan Symphony Orchestra (South Korea), Orquesta de Valencia (Spain) and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Dominican Republic), including performances under the batons of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jahja Ling, Jorge Mester and Otto-Werner Mueller.

Past recital appearances include New York City programs at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Art's Alice Tully Hall, Washington's Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Cleveland's Severance Hall, the Ravinia Festival's "Rising Stars" series, Auditorio de Musica de Nacional in Madrid—part of a 13-city tour of Spain, tour of the Hawaiian Islands, Krannert Center, Herbst Theatre, and Finland's Maanta Music Festival.

An active chamber musician, Soyeon Kate Lee frequently collaborates in many chamber music festivals throughout the United States, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Music Mountain, and has been a member of the coveted Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society Two program where her performance of the Mozart Piano Trio was broadcast on PBS Live from Lincoln Center.

A Naxos recording artist, her discography spans Scarlatti Sonatas, Liszt Opera Transcriptions and two volumes of Scriabin works, with upcoming releases of Clementi Sonatas, as well as another volume of Scarlatti Sonatas. Ms. Lee's recording of Re!nvented under the E1/Entertainment One (formerly Koch Classics) label garnered her a feature review in the Gramophone Magazine and the Classical Recording Foundation's Young Artist of the Year Award.

A second prize and Mozart Prize winner of the 2003 Cleveland International Piano Competition and a laureate of the Santander International Piano Competition in Spain.