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Annual Spring Chamber Music Concerts

We are excited to announce our Annual Chamber Music Concert Series, featuring works by Jan van Gilse, Salomon Jadassohn, Adolf Schulz-Evler, and John Williams. This year's concerts will be held in April and May at two different locations while the Sanctuary at the Temple undergoes renovations.

On April 29, we will hold a concert in Englewood Cliffs, NJ at NV Hall, and on May 2, we will perform at Benzaquen Hall in DiMenna Center in New York. This program honors the lives and love of music of Dr. Hyman Levy and Jerrold Levy. The late Mrs. Muriel Levy endowed this annual concert in their memory to showcase the outstanding talents of the Musicians of Lenox Hill, a unique ensemble of flute, violin, viola, cello, and piano.

Led by Soo-Kyung Park, founding member and artistic director, the Musicians of Lenox Hill have been praised by the New York Concert Review for their exemplary and impressive performances. This year's musicians - Soo-Kyung Park, Emilie-Anne Gendron, Anna Elashivili, Andy Lin, Gloria Kim, and Yeontaek Oh - have successful solo, chamber music, and teaching careers. They have won major competitions, performed in prestigious venues, and recorded critically acclaimed albums. They are also passionate about nurturing young talent and hold faculty positions at renowned institutions and festivals.

Join us for an unforgettable evening of beautiful music that celebrates the legacy of Dr. Hyman Levy and Jerrold Levy and showcases the exceptional talent of the Musicians of Lenox Hill.

Program

Jan van Gilse (1881-1944)

Trio for Flute, Violin and Viola

Salomon Jadassohn (1831-1902)

Piano Quintet No. 3 in G Minor, Op. 126 for 2 Violins, Viola, Cello and Piano

Adolf Schulz-Evler (1852-1905)

Concert Arabesques on “By the Beautiful Blue Danube” by Johann Straus, Jr for Solo Piano

John Williams (1932-)

Theme from Shindler’s List for Violin and Piano

Learn about the Musicians

Anna Elashvili

Anna Elashvili, violin (Baltimore), hailed as "riveting" by the New York Times has appeared as a soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster around the world. She has collaborated with renowned artists such as Lynn Harrell, Dawn Upshaw, Daniel Hope and Maxim Vengerov. Anna is a violinist of Decoda, an Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall. She has also performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, NOVUS NY, and the Mark Morris Dance Orchestra. 

For seven years, she served as the first violinist of the Bryant Park Quartet. Anna received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from The Juilliard School and completed a 2-year fellowship at Carnegie’s program “Ensemble Connect”. Her international travels include concerts in England, Mexico, Germany, Canada, Israel, Iceland and Abu Dhabi among others. Ms. Elashvili is currently violin faculty at Vassar College, the Special Music School and Yellow Barn’s Young Artist Program. She has attended summer festivals including Yellow Barn, Perlman Music Program, Tanglewood and the Verbier Music Festival, where she served as concertmaster for several European tours. 

Ms. Elashvili also has written arrangements for Decoda, the Bryant Park Quartet and other ensembles. She commissioned “Sonatas and Disasters” by Brad Balliett and premiered works by Valerie Coleman (commissioned for Decoda), Du Yun, Christopher Theofanidis, Julian Wachner, Nico Muhly, Richard Wilson and many others. She also enjoys collaborating with dance companies and has worked closely with the Lar Lubovitch and Mark Morris Dance Groups, Wendy Whelan and Dance Heginbotham. 

Ms. Elashvili performs on a Sam Zygmuntowicz violin on a generous extended loan.

Emilie-Anne Gendron

Lauded by the New York Times as a “brilliant soloist” and by Strad for her “marvellous and lyrical playing,” violinist Emilie-Anne Gendron enjoys a dynamic career based in New York City. A committed chamber musician, she is a member of the Momenta Quartet (Artists-in-Residence at Binghamton University), whose eclectic vision encompasses contemporary music of all aesthetic backgrounds alongside great music from the recent and distant past.

Ms. Gendron has been on the roster of the Marlboro Music Festival and Musicians from Marlboro since 2011, and also appears with A Far Cry, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Orpheus, Talea Ensemble, Sejong, and IRIS Orchestra (as one of its concertmasters). She is a founding member of Ensemble Échappé, a new-music sinfonietta, and the Gamut Bach Ensemble, in residence at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Her extensively varied international appearances have included festivals in Russia, Finland, Indonesia, South Korea, and Jordan; and major venues across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, in direct collaboration with such artists as Teddy Abrams, Rachel Barton Pine, Bruno Canino, Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Anthony McGill, Edgar Meyer, Gil Shaham, and Jörg Widmann, among many others.

A dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, Ms. Gendron was trained at the Juilliard School where her teachers were Dorothy DeLay, Won-Bin Yim, Hyo Kang, David Chan, and Axel Strauss. She holds a B.A. in Classics from Columbia University (magna cum laudeand with Phi Beta Kappa honors), and a Master of Music degree and the coveted Artist Diploma from Juilliard. www.emilieannegendron.com

Andy Lin

Taiwanese born violist and erhuist (Chinese violin), Wei-Yang Andy Lin, is recognized as one of the most promising and the only active performers who specialized in both western and eastern instruments.  Praised by The Strad “The great Molto adagio…..elicited some of the night’s most sensitive work, especially from Wei-Yang Andy Lin on viola.” and New York Times “Taiwanese-born violist Wei-Yang Andy Lin..…is also a virtuoso on the erhu, and he gave a brilliant performance.” 

Andy is the artistic director and co-founder of the New Asia Chamber Music Society and holds his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School and his Doctor’s degree in Musical Arts from SUNY Stony Brook.  He has won numerous competitions including Taiwan National Viola Competition and First Prize in the 2008 Juilliard Viola Concerto Competition. He has also appeared as a viola and/or erhu soloist with orchestras such as the Busan Metropolitan Traditional Music Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, Incheon Philharmonic, the Juilliard Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, New York Classical Players, Orford Academy Orchestra, Solisti Ensemble and Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra.  

Andy is a founding member of the Amphion String Quartet and a member of the Musicians of Lenox Hill and serves as principal violist of the New York Classical Players and the Solisti Ensemble. He has been invited to perform chamber music with Itzhak Perlman. He has also been invited by the Metropolitan Museum to give recitals at their Gallery Concert Series and Patrons Lounge Concert, as well as a recital at the Caramoor Center for the Music and the Arts. (www.andylinviola.com)

Gloria Kim

Gloria Kim is a highly accomplished cellist who has made a name for herself as a soloist and chamber musician, performing in various renowned concert venues in the US, Europe, China, and Korea. She debuted as a soloist in New York with the Summit Music Festival Orchestra, and has performed under the baton of Andre Previn. Gloria has also performed at the United Nations and the US Capitol, and even played for former President Bill Clinton. During the pandemic, she participated in the Sing for Hope Organization Concert Series.

Gloria has been invited as a faculty member, concert artist, and for master classes at numerous music festivals, including the Sarasota Music Festival, Verbier Music Festival, 4String Music Festival, and Pan Music Festival at Seoul National University, where she was a member of the Pan Piano Trio.

She recently recorded her first album, titled “An Evening of Sentimental Classic,” which is set to be released in Korea in April 2023, sponsored by Huks Music. Gloria studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and Manhattan School of Music on full scholarship, learning from acclaimed musicians such as Peter Wiley, David Soyer, Joseph Silverstein, Gary Graffman, Felix Galimir, and the Guarneri Quartet.

Gloria is a founding member of the BeneSori Quartet and currently teaches at the County College of Morris and the Summit Music Festival.

Yeontaek Oh

Yeontaek Oh is a highly acclaimed South Korean pianist who began his musical journey at the young age of five in his hometown of Wonju. He has since studied at several prestigious institutions, including the Seoul Arts Center Academy for Gifted, Seoul Arts High School, Seoul National University, the New England Conservatory of Music, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, and Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris.

Yeontaek Oh has an impressive career as a soloist, having performed with orchestras across the globe, including the Daegu Philharmonic Orchestra, Daejeon Pop Orchestra, Euro-Asian Orchestra, Gwangju Philharmonic Orchestra, Jeonju Clamu Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the University of Alicante, CRR-Cergy Orchestra, Freiburg Musikhochschule Orchestra, Morocco Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, and Rome Tre University Orchestra.

He has also won numerous national and international piano competitions, including the Valsecia Musica International Piano Competition (2nd Prize), PalmaD’oro International Piano Competition (2nd Prize), Concours International de Piano de Lyon (3rd Prize), Concorso International Pianistica “Piana del Cavaliere” (2nd Prize), Piano Campus International Competition (1st Prize), Animato International Piano Competition (3rd Prize), and the Morocco Philharmonic Orchestra Competition (2nd Prize). Most recently, he won the Arthur Lepthien Wettbewerb (1st Prize), Frechilla-Zuloaga International Piano Competition (1st Prize), and the Rome Chopin International Competition (2nd Prize). He was also awarded first prize at the International Piano Festival of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.

Currently, Yeontaek Oh is pursuing his DMA degree at the Manhattan School of Music. With his impressive credentials, remarkable performances, and exceptional skills, he has earned a well-deserved reputation as one of the most talented pianists of his generation.

Soo-Kyung Park

Flutist Soo-Kyung Park enjoys a multi-faceted career as an international soloist, chamber musician, artistic director, producer, and teacher. She was accepted to The Juilliard School, Pre-College Division at the age of 11, where she studied with Bonnie Lichter, and continued her studies at The Juilliard School, where she earned both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees under the tutelage of Julius Baker and Jeanne Baxtresser.

Ms. Park has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in many of the world’s major concert halls. Most recent performances include guest artist appearance at the Youngstwon Flute Day in Ohio and New York Flute Center Series. Past performances include guest soloist with the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra at IBK Hall in Seoul and multiple double concerto performances with Keith Underwood and Carol Wincenc in NYC.  She released her first album “Reminiscing” under the SONY Korea label in 2013.

Highly in demand as an instructor, Ms. Park is currently an Artist Professor at New York University and teaches at Manhattan School of Music, Pre-College. She also serves on the faculty of The Consummate Flutist, a masterclass series at Carnegie Mellon University. In addition to teaching, she has produced and presented numerous masterclasses and recitals by world-renowned flutists such as Jeanne Baxtresser, Julien Beaudiment, Linda Chesis, Mathieu Dufour, and Karl-Heinz Schutz.

An avid chamber musician, she is artistic director and a founding member of the Musicians of Lenox Hill, an ensemble she has led for annual performances at the Temple of Israel in NYC for two decades. She is also co-founder of NY Flutists, a professional flute ensemble based in NYC.

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