CONCERTS

78TH SEASON OF

national gallery of art | january 5, 2020

Foley won the 2016 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, along with four 

Performance Prizes and a Paiko Foundation Fellowship. He also won first prizes at 

Astral’s 2014 National Auditions, Sphinx’s 2014 Competition, and the 2011 International 

Society of Bassists Competition. In 2018, he made his acclaimed New York recital debut 

at Merkin Concert Hall and his Washington, DC, debut at the Kennedy Center. He has 

also performed in New York at Alice Tully Hall and the Morgan Library; in Boston at the 

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; and in Upstate New York at the Buffalo Chamber 

Music Society. This season, Foley performs for Baltimore’s Evergreen Museum, Tennessee’s Southern Adventist University, Sarasota, Florida’s SILL’s Music Mondays, Leaf Peeper 

Concerts in Copake, New York, and the Matinee Musicale Series in Duluth, Minnesota.

A native of Marietta, Georgia, Foley is an alumnus of the Perlman Music Program 

and earned his bachelor of music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, working 

with Edgar Meyer and Hal Robinson. His double bass was crafted by Rumano Solano.

Upcoming Events of the SeventyEighth Season of The William Nelson 

Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin Concerts

Imani Winds

Catalyst Quartet

(im)migration

Featuring a new work by Jessie 

Montgomery inspired by the Great 

Migration of African Americans.

January 12, 3:30 p.m.

West Building, West Garden Court

General Information

Admission to the National Gallery of Art 

and all of its programs is free of charge, 

except as noted.

The use of cameras or recording 

equipment during the performance 

is not allowed.

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Concerts are made possible in part 

through the generosity of donors to the 

National Gallery of Art through The Circle. 

Reserved seating is available in recognition 

of their support. Please contact the 

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PROGRAM

Eunice Kim, violin

Xavier Foley, bass

January 5, 2020 | 3:30 p.m.

West Building, West Garden Court

Turlough O’Carolan (1670 – 1738)

Arr. Xavier Foley

Irish Fantasy: The Clergyman’s Lament

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

Allemande from Suite no. 1 in G Major, 

BWV 1007

Johann Sebastian Bach 

Andante from Sonata no. 2 in A Minor, 

BWV 1003

Johann Sebastian Bach 

Arr. Xavier Foley

Prelude from Partita no. 3 in E Major, 

BWV 1006

Xavier Foley (b. 1994)

The Spirit of the Ice Bear

The Spirit

Bear Feast

Hibernation

The Bear Chase

Intermission

John Newton (1725 – 1807)

Arr. Ning Kam

Theme and Variations on Amazing Grace 

Xavier Foley

A Letter to Beethoven, for double bass

Xavier Foley

Snowflake, for violin and double bass

Ástor Piazzolla

Selections from Fünf Tangos, 

for violin and double bass

Xavier Foley 

Cranberry Juice, for violin and 

double bass

This concert is part of a series of 

performances by female violinists, 

showcasing the brilliance and stylistic 

versatility of the instrument.

THE MUSICIANS

Eunice Kim

A young violinist with a unique voice, Eunice Kim has been proclaimed “just superb” 

by the New York Times and “a born performer” by Epoch Times. A native of the San 

Francisco Bay Area, the Astral Award–winning violinist has been the featured soloist 

with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Louisville Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber 

Orchestra, the Korean Broadcasting Symphony, and others. With the Albany Symphony, 

she recorded George Tsontakis’s Unforgettable for Naxos Records. As a guest artist 

for Curtis on Tour, she performed in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Germany 

with violist Roberto Díaz. She also appeared at the Library of Congress and the United 

Nations, performing at the latter for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. 

An avid chamber musician, Kim has appeared at Music at Angel Fire, Music@Menlo, 

Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, SphinxConnect, the Philadelphia Chamber Music 

Society, and the Marlboro Music School and Festival. She has been a frequent guest 

artist at the Tippet Rise Art Center and has performed and taught internationally 

at the Teatro del Lago Festival in Chile and the Valdres Music Academy in Norway. 

Kim opened the 2019 – 2020 season performing an eight-concert regional tour 

of Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with the St. Paul Chamber 

Orchestra. Additional highlights of the season include a return engagement in New 

Orleans and her debut at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido. Kim has 

degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Curtis Institute of 

Music; at Curtis, she studied with Ida Kavafian. Kim also served as concertmaster 

of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, was the recipient of the Rose Paul Fellowship, 

and was awarded the Milka Violin Artist Prize.

Xavier Foley

Xavier Foley is known for communicating his virtuosity and passion for music on the 

double bass, which is rarely presented as a solo instrument. Winner of a prestigious 

2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant, he was recently recognized on New York’s WQXR’s 

“19 for 19” Artists to Watch list and featured on PBS’s NYC-ARTS. Also a composer, 

Foley was co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Sphinx Organization for a new 

work entitled For Justice and Peace, for violin, bass, and string orchestra, which was 

recently performed at Carnegie Hall as part of a program designed to promote social 

justice. As concerto soloist with orchestra, Foley has performed with the Atlanta 

Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony, the Brevard Concert 

Orchestra, and Sphinx Virtuosi.