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David Coucheron, violin Julie Coucheron, pianoHelen Kim, violinMichael Kim, pianoKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC"Dueling Duos!"Photo by Jeff RoffmanprogramTuesday, September 22, 2015 at 8:00 pmDr. Bobbie Bailey & Family Performance Center, Morgan HallNinth Concert of the 2015-16 Concert SeasonSchool of Music Faculty Recital"Dueling Duos!"featuringCoucheron and Kim DuosJOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)Hungarian Dances for Piano Four-Hands, WoO 1 Dance No. 5Dance No. 6Julie Coucheron, Michael Kim, pianosHENRI WIENIAWSKI (1835-1880)Etude Caprice for 2 Violins, opus 18, No. 1 David Coucheron, Helen Kim, violinsEDWARD GRIEG (1843-1907)Sonata No. 3 in C minorAllegro molto ed appassionatoAllegretto espressivo all RomanzaAllegro animato-PrestissimoCoucheron DuoIntermissionCESAR FRANCK (1822-1890)Sonata in A Major Allegro ben moderatoAllegroBen moderato: Recitativo-FantasiaAllegretto poco moderatoKim DuoPABLO DE SARASATE (1844-1908)Navarra for 2 Violins, opus 33David Coucheron, Helen Kim, violinsJulie Coucheron, pianokim duoAssociate Professor of ViolinHelen Kim joined the music faculty in 2006 at Kennesaw State University with a stellar performance background. She made her orchestral debut with the Calgary Philharmonic at the age of six, and has gone on to become a respected and sought-after artist. She has appeared as a soloist with the Boston Pops at Boston’s Symphony Hall, as well as with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras.Ms. Kim earned her Master’s degree from the Juilliard School, where her teachers included Cho-Liang Lin and Dorothy DeLay. She is the recipient of more than one hundred national and international awards. In 1992, she won the prestigious Artists International Competition in New York and as a result, gave debut recitals at Carnegie Weill Hall and the Aspen Summer Music Festival.A native of Canada, Ms. Kim has been engaged by many of Canada’s leading orchestras, including the National Arts Center Orchestra, Montreal Metropolitan Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony, McGill Chamber Orchestra, and the Windsor, Regina, Victoria and Prince George Symphonies. She has also appeared with the Cobb, Georgia Symphony Orchestra, DeKalb, New Orleans, Aspen and Banff Festival Orchestras, and with orchestras in the United Kingdom, Germany and Poland.Ms. Kim has toured extensively throughout Canada and the United States, including performances at Alice Tully Hall and the Sante Fe and La Jolla International Music Festivals where she performed with Cho-Liang Lin, Gary Hoffman, Andre Previn, and the Orion String Quartet. She performed Bach’s Double Violin Concerto with Hilary Hahn at the 2002 Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival.Ms. Kim has been profiled on national and international television and has appeared on CBC, PBS and CBS networks. Her performances have been aired on NPR and CBC radio networks. Ms. Kim served as assistant and associate concertmaster for the Atlanta Symphony for three seasons. She is currently the assistant concertmaster of the Atlanta Opera Orchestra. Ms. Kim performs with local new music ensembles, Bent Frequency, Sonic Generator, Thamyris and recently joined the Atlanta Chamber Players.Michael Kim, pianistMichael Kim, recently appoint-ed Director and Professor at the University of Minnesota’s School of Music, maintains a multi-faceted career as an academic admin-istrator, professor and concert artist. Dr. Kim was formerly Dean and Pro-fessor at Brandon University’s School of Music in Canada, and Chair of the Keyboard Department and Faculty As-sociate to the President at Lawrence University (Appleton, WI).He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Juilliard School. He has performed widely as concerto soloist (Boston Pops, Toronto Symphony), recitalist (Piano Six, Music Toronto), and collaborative artist (with Helen Kim, James Ehnes, Edgar Meyer). Dr. Kim also continues to tour with the critically acclaimed music as theatre production The Schumann Letters, and also appears frequently in concert with his pianist wife, Dr. Kyung Kim.A recipient of countless awards, he was silver medalist in the 1992 Scottish International Competition in Glasgow, and a prize winner in the Leeds and Ivo Pogorelich International Piano Competitions. Grand prizewinner of the Canadian Music and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation National Radio Competitions, Dr. Kim was awarded numerous Arts Study, Project, and Touring Office grants from the Canada Council and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. In 1994, he was recipient of Canada Council's prestigious Career Development award. Dr. Kim can be heard on recordings for the Arktos, CRI, and Summit labels. He has recorded three compact discs for Orpheum Masters - OPUS magazine praised his "Live in Recital" CD for its "tour de force performances, full of virtuosity and musicality."David Coucheron, violinDavid Coucheron joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as Concertmaster in September 2010. At the time, he was the youngest concertmaster among any major U.S. orchestra.Throughout his career, Mr. Coucheron has worked with conductors Robert Spano, Michael Tilson Thomas, Si-mon Rattle, Mstislav Rostropovich and Charles Dutoit, among others. He has performed as soloist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Bergen Philhar-monic Orchestra, Sendai Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Orches-tra and the Trondheim Symphony Or-chestra. Mr. Coucheron has given solo recitals at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Olympic Winter Games (Salt Lake City, Utah), as well as in Beograd, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Serbia, Singapore and Shanghai. His chamber music performances have included appearances at Suntory Hall as well as Wigmore Hall and Alice Tully Hall. Mr. Coucheron also serves as the Artistic Director for the Kon Tiki Chamber Music Festival in his hometown of Oslo, Norway. An active recording artist, recordings with sister and pianist Julie Coucheron include “David and Julie” (Naxos/Mudi) and “Debut” (Naxos). He is also the featured soloist on the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s recording of Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, which was released on ASO Media in Fall 2014.Mr. Coucheron began playing the violin at age three. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music, his Master of Music from The Juilliard School and his Master of Musical Performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying with teachers including Igor Ozim, Aaron Rosand, Lewis Kaplan and David Takeno. Mr. Coucheron plays a 1725 Stradivarius.coucheron duoPhoto credit: Derek BlanksArtist-in-Residence in PianoJulie Coucheron has established an international career, winning prizes in Italy, Germany and in the United States. Ms. Coucheron has worked with musicians such as Lazar Berman, Claude Frank, Emanuel Ax, Vladimir Feltsman, John O’ Connor and Chistopher O’Riley and has toured Europe, America, South America and Asia, playing in great halls like Verizon Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. Born in Oslo, Norway, Ms. Coucheron started playing the piano at the age of four.  She earned her Bachelors and Master’s degree with honors from the Royal Academy of Music in London studying with Christopher Elton and Michael Dussek while also gaining her LRAM teaching diploma at the same institution. Ms. Coucheron has performed at festivals such as the Oslo Chamber Music Festival, Bergen International Music Festival and at La Jolla Summer fest. She is artistic director for the Fjord Cadenza Festival in Norway and a founding member of the Kon Tiki Classical Music Fest in Oslo, Norway. In September 2002 she released her first recording, ‘Debut’ on the Naxos label, together with her brother David containing lyrical and virtuoso music from the classical repertoire. The response was excellent and it sold more than 40.000 copies in Norway alone.  Ms. Coucheron and her brother David released their second recording, ‘David and Julie,’ on the Mudi/Naxos label in September 2008. This recording contains sonatas by Grieg and Brahms and received brilliant reviews worldwide.   In 2009 she won first prize at the Pinerelo International Chamber music Competition in Italy together with her brother.Ms. Coucheron enjoys a close collaboration with the Concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony, David Coucheron, and the principal Cellist, Chris Rex. Together they perform regularly in various concert halls around the world. Ms. Coucheron is a member of the Georgian Chamber Players and recently performed the Brahms piano quartet with the ensemble in Spivey Hall in Atlanta. Recent collaborations include performances with artists such as the Steve Miller Band and Elton John. DirectorStephen W. 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