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Cello and Piano Recital

The dynamic collaboration of Julia Kang and Judy Markson will bring the thrill of classical music to you in the intimate setting of St. John-Incarnation Lutheran church.

Julia Kang:
Cellist Julia MinJeong Kang is an active performer, an avid chamber musician and a passionate educator. She is a recipient of many notable awards such as the Governors Award in Arts Education, the Samuel Mayes Memorial Cello Award, Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship Award, and the Staller Scholar Award. She has attended the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Pacific Music Festival, the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Castleton Music Festival. She frequently plays with groups such as the New Jersey Symphony, New York Classical Players and the Mostly Mozart Orchestra. She has also played in soundtracks of various films such as Noah, A dogs purpose, Collateral Beauty, Keeping up with the joneses, and many other major and independent films. Julia has served as a faculty member at Molloy College, COS-Molloy Summer Intensive, and Lyra Music Festival and Workshop at Smith College. Julia received her Bachelors degree from Manhattan School of Music, Masters degree from The Juilliard School, and her DMA degree from SUNY Stony Brook University.

Judy Markson:
Dr. Judy Markson is increasingly on demand as an inventive solo and chamber musician with eclectic repertoire. She has established herself as a performer of works both mainstream and contemporary. She has premiered two works Haiku (2013) and Firebird (2014) by the composer Oliver Markson, as well as The Happy Prince (piano quartet version - 2015) by Colin Pip Dixon. Alongside her dedication to a wide-ranging selection from the canon of piano repertoire, she has continued her scholarly study of French impressionist music, on which she has given lecture recitals both in New York and Shanghai. Her numerous performances have taken her as far afield as the US, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Finland, Australia and China. Dr. Markson's solo appearances in New York have taken place at Steinway Hall, Yamaha Piano Salon, Greenfield Hall, Staller Recital Hall and Bargemusic. As a devoted chamber musician, she has collaborated with Hai-Ye Ni, principle cellist of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, as well as the celebrated erhu player Hongmei Yu and guzheng player Xiaohong Zhang. Most recently she collaborated with Polish cellist Evva Mizerska on a two-week concert tour of the Mediterranean. Ms. Pang is also a member of the Elsewhere Ensemble a New York-based group of musicians, actors and writers from a range of different countries.