Upcoming Events of the Seventy- General Information

Fifth Season of The William

Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot

Belin Concerts

Alexander Wu, piano, and the Serendip Trio 

"Washingtonians on Wednesdays”

Return to Camelot: Music from the Kennedy

White House Concerts, 1961-1963

March 8,12:10

West Building, East Garden Court

Cappella Pratensis

Commemorating the 500th anniversary

of Hieronymus Bosch's death 

March 12, 3:30

West Building, East Garden Court

Inscape

"Washingtonians on Wednesdays"

March 15,12:10

West Building Lecture Hall

Kruger Brothers and Kontras Quartet

Appalachian Concerto

Presented in honor of East of the

Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century

American Landscape Photography

March 19, 3:30

West Building, East Garden Court

Music of Amy Beach

Three by Three

"Washingtonians on Wednesdays"

March 22,12:10

West Building, East Garden Court

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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devices are turned off.

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through the generosity of donors to the 

National Gallery of Art through The Circle.

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of their support. Please contact the

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The department of music produced these

program notes. Copyright © 2077 Board of

Trustees, National Gallery ofArt, Washington

Cover Irwin Kremen, La Bruyere IV (for John

Cage) (detail), 1976, National Gallery of Art, 

Washington, Gift of the Artist

Parker Quartet

Music by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, 

and Augusta Read Thomas

March 26, 3:30

West Building, East Garden Court

75TH SEASON

OF CONCERTS

MARCH 5, 2017 • NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
MARCH 5

3:30 • West Building, West Garden Court

Ji, piano

Henry Cowell (1897-1965)

The Banshee

Johann Sebastian Bach (i685-i75o)/Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

La Valse

Johann Sebastian Bach/Ferruccio Busoni

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante, op.22

John Cage (1912-1992)

4'33"

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

"Le mal du pays” from Annees de Pelerinage

Robert Schumann (1819-1896)

Arabesque

The Musician

Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as "a gifted young pianist who is clearly going places,” Ji has

been praised from a young age for his compelling musical presence and impressive technical

command. He has appeared as soloist with the Toronto, Nashville, Bangor, Fairfax, Colorado,

Victoria, New Haven, New Jersey, and Santa Rosa Symphony Orchestras, as well as with the 

Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Charlotte Philharmonic, and the Brevard Festival Orchestra.

Winner of the 2012 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Ji made recital

debuts at Merkin Concert Hall and the Kennedy Center on the Young Concert Artists Series

to rave reviews. He has also performed in four-hand recitals with Marika Bournaki at the

Seoul Art Center and with Charles Wadsworth in a chamber music program of Charles 

Wadsworth and Friends.

Well-known in Korea, Ji performed the country's first outdoor classical concert as

soloist with the BBC Symphony under Jiff Belohlavek and performed in Seoul with worldrenowned ballerina Sue Jin Kang and dancers from the Stuttgart Ballet. Ji's creative vision 

to make classical music accessible to young people led to his "Stop & Listen” outdoor

"guerrilla” performances in 2010, during which he worked with renowned Korean pop-artist

Tae Jung Kim to design the "Ji-T" piano, bringing classical music to the public on the busy

streets of Seoul. He also collaborated with the Japanese electronic/house music singer

FreeTEMPO. From 2008 to 2013, Ji performed as a member of the Ensemble DITTO in Korea

and Japan with violinist Stefan Jackiw, violist Richard O'Neill, and cellist Michael Nicolas.

In early 2016, Ji was the star of a national Android commercial in which he performs

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata on two pianos, one that features the usual eighty-eight pitches 

on a piano, and one that is tuned so that each key plays a middle C. He has recorded two

CDs: Bach Exhibition on the Credia label, and Lisztomania with Credia/Universal Music.

Ji began playing the piano at the age of five. At the age of ten, he was the youngest

pianist to win the New York Philharmonic's Young Artists Competition, resulting in a

performance at Avery Fisher Hall under Maestro Kurt Masur. He graduated from the

Juilliard School, where he studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky.