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Scott Yoo: Piano Quartet, Op. 1

Performance Today - September 23, 2024

Scott Yoo is many things: violinist, conductor, and Artistic Director of Festival Mozaic, to name a few, but until recently, he hadn't considered himself a composer. In 2023, Yoo composed a piano quartet while documenting the process for his PBS series "Now Hear This." We'll hear his Piano Quartet on today's show, from a concert presented by Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo, California.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 Movement 3 Fuga
Nashville Symphony Orchestra | Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor
Album: Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1
Naxos 557470

Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in D major, (for the Left Hand), M. 82
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano | Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra | Stephane Deneve, conductor
Grand Teton Music Festival, Walk Festival Hall, Jackson Hole, WY

Sophie Fay: The Bell Tower
Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, violin | David Samuel, viola | Drew Petersen, piano
Emerging Composers Intensive at the Hidden Valley Music Seminars, Walden Theater, Hidden Valley Music Seminars, Carmel Valley, CA

Adolphus Hailstork: Sanctum Rhapsody for Viola and Piano
Meghan Yost, viola | Irene Kim, piano
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA

Hour 2

Clarice Assad: Hocus Pocus movement 3: Klutzy Witches
Duo Noire
Album: Night Triptych
New Focus 210

Clarice Assad: Ode to Carmen Miranda
ROCO | Johannes Debus, conductor
ROCO, St. John the Divine Church, Houston, TX

Joseph Haydn: Divertimento in C Major for winds, strings & continuo, Hob.II:11, "The Birthday"
Sooyun Kim, flute | James Austin Smith, oboe | Ani Kavafian, violin | Chad Hoopes, violin | David Finckel, cello | Anthony Manzo, bass | Mika Sasaki, piano
Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Institute, Spieker Center for the Arts, Menlo Park, CA

Scott Yoo: Piano Quartet, Op. 1 (World Premiere)
John Novacek, piano | Scott Yoo, violin | Maurycy Banaszek, viola | Sophie Shao, cello
Festival Mozaic, Harold J. Miossi Cultural & Performing Arts Center, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA

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