CELLO RECITAL: Eunghee Cho, cello/ Linsday Garritson, piano

CELLO RECITAL:

Eunghee Cho, Cello

Joy Yanai, Cello

Lindsay Garritson, Piano

( cello/ cello)

Sollima: Arboreto Salvatico

I. La SequoiaII.

Il PinoIII.

Il Tasso

J.S. Bach: Chaconne in D minor (arranged for two cellos)

(cello/piano)

Fazıl Say: Four Cities

I. Sivas

II. Hopa

III. Ankara

IV. Bodrum

Piazzolla: Le Grand Tango

Come join us for a Faculty concert of the FREDERICKSBURG MUSIC FESTIVAL and SCHOOL with cellist Eunghee Cho, as together with his wife Joy Hanai and Lindsay Garritson he explores beloved works of cello repertoire.

Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to witness a world-class performance in the intimate setting of St Joseph's Halle.

Born in Davis, California, Korean-American cellist Eunghee Cho was awarded Second Prize and the special award for Outstanding Chinese New Piece Performance at the Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition (China). He has also earned top prizes in the Gustav Mahler Prize Cello Competition (Czech Republic), AEMC International Chamber Music Competition (Italy), Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition (USA), among other competitions and has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras around the country including the Sacramento Philharmonic, Fox Valley Symphony, Cape Symphony, Atlantic Symphony, Symphony by the Sea, UC Davis Symphony, and Sacramento State Symphony Orchestras. He has held the Joyce & Donald Steele Chair as Principal Cello of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra in addition to frequent Guest Principal Cello appearances with orchestras around the country including Mercury Chamber Orchestra, Boston Festival Orchestra, Dallas Chamber Symphony, and Cape Symphony.

Eunghee is the cellist of Trio Magnoliana and Director of Chamber Music for Texas Music Festival. He has been invited to present cello masterclasses for Boston Conservatory, Towson University, La Jolla Music Society, University of Southern Mississippi, Artis Naples, Royal Conservatory of Music, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, and is the Artistic Director of Mellon Music Festival in Davis, CA. Eunghee has also served on the summer teaching faculties of Texas Music Festival, International Cello Institute, Montecito International Music Festival, Heifetz International Music Institute, Texas Strings Festival, and Festival Internacional de Música Naolinco. He currently teaches cello at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston where he also directs the Moores Cello Ensemble and CelloFest Houston. 

His chamber music collaborations include performances with artists such as Midori Goto, Inon Barnatan, David Shifrin, Paul Neubauer, Maeve Gilchrist, Elton John, Keith Murphy, Alec Benjamin, François Salque, and with members of the Cleveland Quartet, Borromeo String Quartet, St. Lawrence String Quartet, Calder String Quartet, Silk Road Ensemble, A Far Cry, Da Camera Society, and Aaron Diehl Trio. He was the founding cellist of Rasa String Quartet and has collaborated directly with composers in world and national premieres of their works including with José Elizondo, Andrew Norman, Michael Gandolfi, Jeremy Crosmer, and Julia Adolphe. Previous festival engagements include La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Taos School of Music, Keuka Lake Music Festival, Highlands Cashiers Chamber Music Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Festival International d’Echternach, and Rencontres Franco Américaines de Musique Chambre in Missillac, France.

Eunghee graduated as a Steven & Kathryn Sample Renaissance Scholar from the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance and a Minor in Biology as a student of Andrew Shulman. He completed both Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at New England Conservatory under the tutelage of distinguished pedagogues Laurence Lesser and Paul Katz. Eunghee has actively participated in classes at the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival and Académie Musicale de Villecroze in France and has worked closely with Ralph Kirshbaum, Kim Kashkashian, and Midori Goto. His cello instruction began with Julie Hochman, Richard Andaya, and Andrew Luchansky.

Dr. Lindsay Garritson has performed throughout the United States and abroad since the age of four. She has appeared on stages such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Place des Arts (Montreal), and has been featured as soloist with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, Keweenaw Symphony (Michigan), Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra (Texas), Orchestre Métropolitain (Montreal), Atlantic Classical Orchestra (Florida), Orquestra Sinfônica Barra Mansa (Brazil), the Yale Philharmonic Orchestra, and the European Philharmonic Orchestra, among others. An award-winning performer, Lindsay has received top prizes at the Montreal International Piano Competition, USASU Bösendorfer International Piano Competition, and the Mozarteum International Chopin Competition (Salzburg). She was selected as a participant in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition as well as a finalist for the German Piano Award in Frankfurt, Germany.

An avid chamber musician, Lindsay has performed with Ani Kavafian, Elmar Oliveira, Carter Brey, Ettore Causa, and Ian Rosenbaum, among many others. She is currently a member of the Bergonzi Piano Trio with violinist Scott Flavin and cellist Ross Harbaugh, and their first album of Beethoven and Brahms trios was recently released. Their upcoming album of trios by Dvorak and Shostakovich will be released in 2024. Since 2018, she has been a collaborative pianist for the prestigious Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival.

Lindsay is a passionate advocate for new music, and her Carnegie Hall solo recital debut featured the world premiere of Carl Vine's Piano Sonata No. 4, a work written for her. Concurrently, her second solo album titled “Aphorisms: Piano Music of Carl Vine” was released. In 2022, Lindsay concertized in recital across Australia and New Zealand featuring the music of Carl Vine. She has also recorded the complete works for flute and piano by Samuel Zyman (Albany Records), and premiered works by composers David Ludwig, Nick Omiccioli, and Polina Nazaykinskaya.

Lindsay holds degrees from Principia College (B.A. in Music), Yale School of Music (M.M. and Artist Diploma), and the University of Miami (D.M.A.). Her piano teachers include Santiago Rodriguez, Boris Berman, Luiz de Moura Castro, Choong-Mo Kang, Zena Ilyashov, Emilio Del Rosario, the late Jane Allen, and Jennifer Lim Judd. Lindsay currently resides in Jensen Beach, Florida.

Canadian-Japanese cellist Joy Yanai joined the Naples Philharmonic in 2020. She began taking cello lessons at the age of five in Japan before attending Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, MA where she studied with Laurence Lesser at NEC Prep. She earned her Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory where her major teachers included Laurence Lesser, Paul Katz and Lluís Claret.

In 2011 she actively joined the Earthquake and Tsunami relief efforts for Japan both with solo recitals in the affected regions as well as performances in collaboration with such artists as Kim Kashkashian, Paul Biss, Laurence Lesser, and Masuko Ushioda. She has also collaborated in chamber music performances with other leading artists such as James Ehnes, Ryu Goto, Vladimir Feltsman, Blake Pouliot, Lucas and Arthur Jussen, and the Miró String Quartet. She has also been invited to perform at music festivals in Canada, Japan, South Korea and USA including Orford Music Academy, Banff Music Festival, Pacific Music Festival, Great Mountains International Music Festival, Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Opera Project, Ozawa International Chamber Music Academy, and Mellon Music Festival.

She has performed with A Far Cry, Houston Symphony, and as assistant principal cellist of Atlantic Symphony. She is a prizewinner in the New England String Ensemble Concerto Competition, Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and New England Conservatory Concerto Competition. In her free time, Joy enjoys bird watching and sun bathing.

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