Yuri Park- Violin and Angela Cook - Piano In Concert

The next Globe Sunday Matinee concert brings together two of the finest concert musicians in the region.
Yuri Park is an experienced violinist and teacher. She graduated from the Sookmyung Women's University with a Bachelor of Music in violin performance in Seoul in 1996. She moved to Palmerston North from South Korea in 2000 and took an active part in the music life of the society. After she moved to Auckland with her family in 2011, she completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Music in Performance at The University of Auckland. Last year, she moved back to Palmerston North and was the concerto soloist in the spring concert of the Manawatu Sinfonia.

Angela Cook gained her diploma from the London College of Music before completing an honours degree in piano performance with teachers Peter Donohoe and Kathleen Parry Jones at Victoria University Manchester. She arrived in NZ in 1993 with her husband and four children and quickly established a large teaching studio. She has enjoyed many opportunities to perform as soloist and chamber musician in and around Palmerston North and overseas (Japan, Australia and UK). Angela is also an adjudicator, conductor and composer. 29 years ago Angela founded the monthly Sunday afternoon Te Manawa recital series, which has now become the Globe Sunday Matinee series. In 2008 Angela shifted to the sunny Wairarapa. She teaches in PN two days a week and in Carterton and at Rathkeale College for the remainder of the week. She is also joint founder and co director of the Wairarapa Kids Choir.

For their first concert together Yuri and Angela will perform sonatas by Francesco Veracini, Wolfgang Mozart, and Edvard Grieg.
The Italian eighteenth century composer Veracini was considered one of the top violinists throughout Europe during his lifetime. The sonata to be performed is in the Baroque suite form of contrasting dances.
The Mozart sonata is the first of 20 mature violin and piano sonatas, and was written in a light, almost playful style for Mozart’s pupil Therese Serrarius, the daughter of his landlord in Mannheim.
Grieg’s second violin sonata was written during his honeymoon in the summer of 1867. On the second sonata, one commentator remarked: it is "the gift to the world of a man who has also shivered in the cold mists of night." The spirit of Norwegian folk music imbues the work.
The concert finishes with the Graceful Ghost Rag by William E. Bolcom.
William Bolcom was born in 1938 and is an American composer and pianist.
He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Award, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. He composed Graceful Ghost as one of three “ghost rags” for piano in the early 1970’s, and it is now considered his most famous work. Full of flowing syncopation, elegant melodies, and gentle minor harmonies it has a wistful longing and class that is likely to leave audiences with a smile on their face and with the catchy tune embedded in their memories.

Admission is by donation, recommended from $5