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The Sixty-ninth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

2,842nd Concert

Award-winners from the

Feder Memorial String Competition

ofthe Washington Performing Arts Society

Sponsored by the Richard B. and

Sarah J. Marsten Charitable Remainder Unitrust

May 15, 2011

Sunday, 6:30 pm

East Building Auditorium

Admissionfree
Program

Sean Yongjoo Lim, violin

Charles Dancla (1817-1907)

Variations on a Theme by Weigl

Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759) 

Sonata no. 6

Allegro

Emma Sophie Moore, violin

Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880) 

Legende

Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)

Carmen Fantasy

Rachel Kim, cello

Edouard Lalo (1823-1892)

Concerto in D Minor

Prelude

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Sonatafor Cello and Piano

Prologue

Zeynep Alpan, violin

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Concerto in D Major, op. 35

Allegro moderato

The pianists collaborating with the prize winners in this concert are

Stephen Ackert and Sun Ha Yoon.
The Musicians

SEAN YONGJOO LIM

A sixth grade student at Haycock Elementary School, Sean Yongjoo Lim

started playing the violin when he was in the first grade and has been a

student of Natalia Yampolsky since 2008. Before taking first place in this

year’s Feder Memorial String Competition’s aspiring violin/viola category,

Sean won several awards from the Asian American Music Society, the

Maryland String Music Teachers Association, and the Northern Virginia Music 

Teachers Association as well as prizes in previous Washington Performing

Arts Society competitions. He is a member ofthe American Youth String

Ensemble Orchestra and concertmaster ofthe Haycock Elementary Advanced 

String Orchestra. He is also the youngest member ofthe Columbia Baptist

Church Orchestra in Falls Church, Virginia.

EMMA SOPHIE MOORE

The first place winner in the Feder Competition’s intermediate violin/viola

category, Emma Sophie Moore is a sixth-grade student at Williamsburg

Middle School in Arlington, Virginia, and has been playing the violin since

age four, when she began taking lessons with Olga Khroulevitch. She has

won first place in many local competitions, including the 2008 and 2010

Asian American Music Society International Competition; the 2008 Northern

Virginia Music Teachers Association String Concerto Competition; and the

2007, 2009, and 2011 Maryland String Music Teachers Association String

Festivals. Emma has performed on the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage 

and in the Music Friends’ Concerts at the Alden Young Soloists Recital

Series. Her appearance for the Vladmir Spivakov International Charity

Foundation was televised on Russian National Television.

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RACHEl KIM

A freshman at Northwest High School in Germantown, Maryland, Rachel

Kim is the first-place winner in the advanced cello/bass category ofthe Feder

Competition. A student of Laurien Laufman, Rachel has been an active

member ofthe Montgomery County Youth Orchestra for the past three

years. In 2010 she was the principal cellist ofits symphony orchestra, and

she currently serves as principal cellist ofits elite chamber orchestra. She was

also named principal cellist for each ofthe past two years ofthe Maryland

Junior All-State Orchestra. In addition to her Feder Competition prize, this

year she also won first place in her division for the Maryland Strings Music

Teachers Association/American Strings Teachers Association Spring Solo

Strings Festival and second place in the Montgomery County Music Teachers 

Association Brewster Memorial Strings Competition. Already a veteran of

concerts at the Kennedy Center and Strathmore Hall, Rachel has played the

cello for the past four-and-a-halfyears.

ZEYNEP ALPAN

Born in 1995 in Stony Brook, New York, Zeynep Alpan started studying the

violin at age five with Rebecca Henry at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody 

Conservatory pre-college program. She was accepted by the Juilliard School 

of Music pre-college division at age ten, where she studied under the tutelage of Shirley Givens. Now a student of Oleg Rylatko and Naoko Tanaka, 

Alpan performs regularly as a soloist, orchestra member, and chamber

musician. She has appeared at Alice Tully Hall, the Aspen Music Festival,

Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Juilliard’s Paul and Morse Halls, the Katzen 

Art Center, the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, and Strathmore Hall and Mansion.

In addition to garnering first place in the 2011 Feder Competition’s advanced

violin/viola category, Zeynep has won prizes in the American Fine Arts

Festival, Friday Morning Music Club, Greenwich Concerto, Maryland String

Teacher Association, Music Teachers National Association, and National

Philharmonic Concerto competitions. After making her orchestral debut

at age twelve, performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the Istanbul

Symphony Orchestra at Ataturk Cultural Center in Istanbul, Zeynep per5
formed Lalo’s Symphonie espagnol at Weill Hall as a part ofthe American

Fine Arts Festival winners’ performances. She has performed in major music

halls in Turkey and was featured on Turkish National Television performing

works of Kreisler and Massenet. She plays a 1771 Paolo Antonio Testore violin,

on loan to her from the Juilliard Rare Instrument Collection, which in turn

uses the instrument on loan from the family of Samuel Pelman.

THE JOSEPH AND GOLDIE FEDER MEMORIAL STRING COMPETITION AND

THE WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY

An ongoing project ofthe Washington Performing Arts Society (wpas), the

Joseph and Goldie Feder Memorial String Competition was established in

1971 by Mrs. Goldie Feder in honor of her late husband to inspire and

nurture local music students. Now in its fortieth year, the competition

continues to help develop confidence and focus for young musicians while

maintaining the vitality ofthe arts in metropolitan District of Columbia area

schools. The competition is open to youth in grades six through twelve who

study violin, viola, cello, and double bass. They compete for prizes that

include free private lessons, cash awards, summer tuition scholarships,

performance opportunities, and tickets for their families to wpas concerts.

Since its founding in 1965, wpas has enriched the lives of nearly four

million children and adults by bringing internationally acclaimed performers to Washington-area concert stages and presenting programs in schools,

community centers, theaters, and outdoor venues. The organization also 

commissions new works for music and dance and forms partnerships with

local artists, arts organizations, community agencies, schools, embassies,

and universities to develop and present innovative artistic and educational

programs. These programs include opportunities for youth, adults, and

seniors to perform in public, including wpas Summer Performing Arts

Academy; the Capitol Jazz Project; and the wpas Men, Women, and Children

ofthe Gospel Choir, which recently performed at the National Gallery.

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Next week at the National Gallery ofArt

Alexandria Symphony Orchestra

Music by Mahler

May 22, 2011

Sunday, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court