Date and Time: Friday, August 23, 2024; 7 pm to 8:15 pm. No intermission.
Location: Island Arts Center red barn, 1127 US Rt 2, North Hero, VT 05474
Tickets: $25.00 online or at the door
Concert Program: Click here for the program

New York City concert pianist Sohyun Ahn returns to Island Arts for the third year with another beautiful program for our community. Her well-attended concerts of the last two summers elicited raves, including “amazing delicacy” and “world class”.

This program showcases Ahn playing solo piano the Ballade No. 4 and Three Nocturnes Op. 15 by Chopin, and Sonata in E flat Major by Haydn.

Local Vermont pianist Eun Hee Park joins Ahn to play the piano 4-hands work Romantiques, Op. 55 by Cécile Chaminade. Watching the interaction of four hands sharing the keyboard is always a special treat. French composer Chaminade was awarded the Légion d’Honneur, a national award of merit, a first ever given to a female compose

Sohyun Ahn has been described as “an absolute master” by the New York Concert Review, and as an “amazing pianist” by the Classical New Jersey Society. Our Vermont audience raved: “Absolutely superb”. “I was enthralled”. “Their fingers danced on the keyboard”, “Such a different experience from the big city hall where you are miles from the performer”.

Ahn is not to be missed. From the liner notes for Ahn’s Bach Goldberg Variations: “Her playing exhibits a crystalline clarity, insightful nuance, and dynamic breadth.” From Piano Music Magazine, Korea: “Such a gifted virtuoso, wonderful performing the emotional storm … with the perfectly balanced elegance.”