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Guest artist and alumnus: Michelle Bradley, soprano and Jiung Yoon, piano

Michelle Bradley, soprano; Jiung Yoon, piano
August 29, 2016
All Day
Weigel Auditorium

Soprano Michelle Bradley and pianist Jiung Yoon will present a varied program of arias and art songs including selections by Strauss, Wagner, Verdi, Fauré, Poulenc, Duparc, Bachelet and Charpentier. Bradley and Yoon first collaborated as students in the master's degree program at the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University. This will be their most ambitious collaboration - a long-anticipated event for both artists.

Michelle Bradley, a native of Houston, Texas, is in her second year of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. She has performed such roles as Mozart’s Fiordiligi and Donna Anna, Strauss’ Marschallin, and Verdi’s Alice in Falstaff. In the Metropolitan Opera’s 2016-2017 season, Ms. Bradley will make her debut in Mozart’s Idomeneo and as the High Priestess in Verdi’s Aida. She is the 2016 recipient of the Hildegard Behrens Foundation Award, as well as a first place winner in the Gerda Lissner and the Sergei and Olga Koussevitzky vocal competitions. She is the 2014 grand prize winner of The Music Academy of the West’s Marilyn Horne Song Competition and completed a nationwide recital tour in May 2015. She has participated in master classes with Stephanie Blythe, Anne Sofie von Otter, Marilyn Horne, Deborah Voigt, James Morris, and Renata Scotto. In January, Ms. Bradley performed in Carnegie Hall’s Neighborhood Recital Series in honor of Marilyn Horne. In May, the soprano made her debut with Beethoven’s 9th Symphony with the Santa Cruz Symphony Orchestra. Michelle Bradley received her Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Bowling Green State University.

Jiung Yoon is in high demand as a soloist, collaborative pianist and teacher in central Ohio. He is often invited to collaborate on Ohio State faculty solo recitals, and has worked as a professional accompanist for hundreds of concerts and international music festivals and competitions in Korea, the United States and Europe, including the International Clarinet Association ClarinetFests in Madrid and the University of Kansas. He has also served as the official collaborative pianist for the Central Ohio Flute Association festivals, as well as for Ohio State’s summer Flute Workshop and Clarinet Academy. Yoon has participated by invitation in the National Conference of the Society of Composers, Inc., the Italian Clarinet Summer University, and the International Music Master Courses in Cividale, Italy. Jiung has worked with renowned guest artists in master classes and recitals - among them Richard Stoltzman, Stephen Hough, Gilbert Kalish, Carol Wincenc, Margo Garrett and Timothy Myers. Yoon initially studied in South Korea where he won numerous competitions including the IBACH Music Competition and the National Music Concours Scholarship. He earned his certificate and MMA in piano from Bowling Green State University in 2009. He studied with Prof. Laura Melton at BGSU and with Prof. Steven Glaser at Ohio State, where he held a University Fellowship and graduated with his DMA degree.

This concert is free and open to the public. No ticket required.

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