Music&Friends Chamber Ensemble

26/07/2021

Rehearsing for our upcoming live stream performance this Thursday, July 29, at 7 PM! We’re joined by our wonderful friends and colleagues Jackie Traish on flute and JiYoung Lee on piano. DM us for the link for the livestream!

16/07/2021

🤩We are so excited to present a summer livestream on Thursday, July 29 at 7 PM! 🎼🎹🎻💚
This performance will combine two premiers with works by Haydn and Franz Doppler. We will be joined by Jackie Traish on flute and Jiyoung Lee on piano and feature new music by Elliot Grabill and Zach Gulaboff Davis. Keep an eye out for the link as we get closer to the performance!
🎈✨🌟 Chloe Seunghyen Kim Zach Gulaboff Davis Elliott Grabill Jackie Traish Ji Young Lee Jacob Nordlinger

03/05/2021

Not only are we really excited to present Logan Vrankovic’s cello quartet “Poem”, but we are so thrilled that we could be joined by cellist friends from around the globe. Eduardo Maquito is joining us from Peru while Subin Lee and YoungKwang Choi are in South Korea. We are so happy that we were able to make this collaboration happen. This work is characterized by lush textures and intertwining long lines that get dispersed throughout each of the cello parts. Thank you to Logan for writing this beautiful piece and to all the cellists who joined! Enjoy!
최영광 Subin Lee Jacob Nordlinger Logan Vranković
https://youtu.be/uHkX4UNY6U0

Not only are we really excited to present Logan Vrankovic’s cello quartet “Poem”, but we are so thrilled that we could be joined by cellist friends from arou...

26/04/2021

Stay Tuned for upcoming video!
Composer Logan Vrankovic is back with Music and Friends! This time we’re playing his piece “Poem” for cello quartet. We’re also joined by two new cellist friends, Young Kwang Choi from South Korea and Eduardo Maquito from Peru along with past performer Subin Lee. This is a really warm piece so keep an eye out for it next week!

19/04/2021

🎈🐬Composer Logan Vrankovic is back with Music and Friends! This time we’re playing his piece “Poem” for cello quartet. We’re also joined by two new cellist friends, Young Kwang Choi from South Korea and Eduardo Maquito from Peru along with past performer Subin Lee. This is a really fun piece so keep an eye out for it!! 🎶

12/04/2021

Mozart’s Divertimento for Strings, K. 136 was written shortly before his16th birthday, around the same time that he was working to prove his compositional masterly with one of his first major operas, La finta giardiniera, K. 196. This work demonstrates not only Mozart’s innate ability to lure audiences in with his delightful melodies, but also his mastery of musical forms. While this is clearly still an early work, we can see that he already has a grasp on writing nuanced chamber music and get a hint of what is to come later in his string quartets and other chamber music. This seems to be one of the major reasons this work has withstood the test of time and is continues to be so widely performed today.

Violins;
Adam von Housen
Sam Gray
Chloe Seunghyen Kim
Emily Wong

Violas;
Pearl Fuentes
Andy Taeyoung Yoon

Cellos;
Reed Reagan
Austin Chao

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Online Project - Mozart Divertimento in D major, K.136 https://youtu.be/UYZtzhSkuOg

Adam von Housen Sam Gray Emily Wong Chloe Seunghyen Kim Pearl Fuentes Tae Young Andy Yoon Reed Reagan Austin Chao

Mozart’s Divertimento for Strings, K. 136 was written shortly before his16th birthday, around the same time that he was working to prove his compositional ma...

05/04/2021

Stay tuned for our virtual concert with these wonderful musicians!
The video will release on next Monday on YouTube!
Will perform Mozart Divertimento in D major!
Thank you!

22/03/2021

Douglas Boyce’s “Second Quire: Ritournelle Capricieuse, Etude for Solo Cello” alternates between a simple theme that harkens back to a medieval vocal work, interspersed with wild, explosive episodes that cover the entire range of the cello. These abrupt character changes really take the listener on a cool journey that joins an ancient style of music with contemporary.

https://youtu.be/1K3PaqnhGLw

Douglas Boyce’s “Second Quire: Ritournelle Capricieuse, Etude for Solo Cello” alternates between a simple theme that harkens back to a medieval vocal work, i...

16/03/2021

New music week next week! Jacob is going to be playing Douglas Boyce’s “Second Quire: Ritournelle Capriceuse, Etude for Solo Cello”. It’s a really exciting piece that combines a recurring ritornello theme with wild counterparts. Stay tuned!

08/03/2021

Check out this FUN video!! 🎥😆💜

https://youtu.be/KXX7c6aRhxY

Enrique F Victoria-Obando Jacob Nordlinger Grace Yun Kang 김하립

🎥We wanted to try something new alongside our virtual concerts. Some of our musician friends from around the world showed us what a typical day looks like f...

08/03/2021

New Video to check out on YouTube and Facebook!

🎥 We wanted to try something new alongside our virtual concerts. Some of our musician friends from around the world showed us what a typical day looks like for them. ❤️

Please enjoy the video!!!
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01/03/2021

🦋🎬We wanted to try something new alongside our virtual concerts. Some of our musician friends from around the world showed us what a typical day looks like for them. Yun Kang (Taiwan), Halip Kim (South Korea), Jacob Nordlinger (United States) and Enrique Victoria Obando (Peru) gave us a look into what they have been up to lately. We know that these days we can't show everything musicians normally do, but nonetheless musicians have been keeping music going! Stay tuned for the full video next week! 🎲

22/02/2021

A few months back, we got to play with our friend Logan Vrankovic at the lovely chapel at Columbia University Mozart’s lovely piano trio in B-flat, K502. We wanted to share a few clips from the Larghetto movement. This work was composed in 1786 after Mozart had been comfortably in Vienna for a few years and was enjoying success as a composer. Later that year, one of his most well known works, ​The Marriage of Figaro​, was premiered. Similarly to that work, this trio seems to project a kind of unbridled joy and serene beauty that the opera does. Although the voices intertwine with each other in a manner that is more complex than some of Mozart's earlier chamber music works, we can still hear a distinct calmness in this movement.

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Mozart Piano Trio in E-flat, K.542 https://youtu.be/N6dy397_z8Y

A few months back, we got to play with our friend Logan Vrankovic at the lovely chapel at Columbia University Mozart’s lovely piano trio in B-flat, K502. We ...

15/02/2021

Enjoy this fun Valentine’s Day 💝performance recorded across multiple continents! Our friends at Blank Ensemble in Seoul, South Korea joined Trio Solace right here in New York City to put together this lovely performance! We’re also super grateful to our friend Alex Yucheng Zhang for helping us make this happen. We’re so happy to be able to showcase these two awesome groups in this arrangement! Enjoy!

Trio Solace 🎹 🎻
Yukiko Kuhara, violin
Mark Serkin, cello
Jake Savransky, piano

Blank Saxophone Ensemble 🎷
Dabin Jung, soprano
Hanryeol Im, 1st alto
Changhyuk Moon, 2nd alto
Yunsang Cho, 3rd alto
Sinkyu Lee, tenor
Halip Kim, Bariton

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Trio Solace조윤상문창혁Ian JungSin Kyu Lee김하립Alex Yucheng Zhang
https://youtu.be/GBYMV4U4xvE

Enjoy this fun Valentine’s Day performance recorded across multiple continents! Our friends at Blank Ensemble in Seoul, South Korea joined Trio Solace right ...

14/02/2021

Happy Valentine’s Day🍫

Teaser video for special online project which is collaborate with Trio Solace and Blank Saxophone Ensemble!

Stay Tuned for Full video on YouTube channel tomorrow 🎈💝

Trio Solace

13/02/2021

Happy to introduce Blank Saxophone Ensemble 🎷

They come back to join our upcoming lovely online project💝

Based in their native South Korea, the Blank Saxophone Ensemble has played throughout the world and regularly in South Korea since they formed in 2018. The Blank Ensemble was launched at the Asia Pacific Academy as a means to showcase the versatility of the saxophone and saxophone ensemble. They perform in both concert halls and non-traditional settings.

12/02/2021

Meet one of our musicians who is going join our upcoming lovely project😍

Trio Solace was formed at the height of the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic by long-time school friends Yukiko Kuhara (violin), Mark Serkin (cello) and Jacob Savransky (piano) as a way to spread a modicum of comfort by way of music. The trio made its debut at the Mozaika Concert Series at Raritan Valley Community College in early 2021 soon after being named recipients of Chamber Music America’s Ensemble Forward Grant. Other season highlights include several upcoming online performances through A440, whose roster they joined. When away from the concert stage, the trio is busy working on a variety of repertoire (much of it written by living composers), enjoying the company of dogs and cooking fine meals.
Trio Solace

11/02/2021

•Official Flyer 💝

Stay tuned for Love from us ❤️

Happy Valentine’s Day from Music&Friends! Our friend Alex Yucheng Zhang made this lovely arrangement for us. We’re also joined by our friends in Trio Solace and Blank Ensemble to help us spread some love!

🎷 ❤️ Trio Solace

01/02/2021

Enjoy our De-Stress music! Cute and charming piece “Dinner for Two” for two violins composed by Logan Vranković

Thank you! 🎶🍽😋😍

Adam von Housen ,violin
Chloe Seunghyen Kim, violin

https://youtu.be/oE8LSVDF8l8

Short and Charming piece for two violins composed by Logan Vrankovic.Hope you guys are enjoy with DE-STRESS!Thank you!Adam von Housen, violinChloe Seunghyen ...

25/01/2021

Look inside clip video of our latest recording! “Dinner for Two” by Logan Vrankovic! Full video will upload on next Monday! Stay Tuned! 🍽 🍷 🎻 🎶


#🎻 #🎶 #🍽 #🍷 Adam von Housen Logan Vranković Chloe Seunghyen Kim

19/01/2021

We had so much fun recording [Piano Trio Jazzical “Sweet” - Ilan Rechtman] a few weeks ago with our friend Rachel! 🍫

We are so glad to be able to play a little chamber music with friends in person. 🎹🎼🎻

Hope you enjoy the video! 🎈

Rachel Yunkyung Choo, piano
Chloe Seunghyen Kim, violin
Jacob Nordlinger, cello
Chloe Seunghyen Kim Jacob Nordlinger

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https://youtu.be/sHsfDRCivnY

We had so much fun recording [Piano Trio Jazzical “Sweet” - Ilan Rechtman] a few weeks ago with our friend Rachel! 🍫We are so glad to be able to play a litt...

11/01/2021

Coming up next!
Jazzical Piano Trio “Sweet”
Composed by Ilan Rechtman!
Stay tuned for full video on Next Week!

04/01/2021

https://youtu.be/xJw-F1ebQdY

Throwback to last new year’s concert in Upstate New York with pianist Hyebin Park violinist Chloe Seunghyen Kim and cellist Jacob Nordlinger

Arranged by

Happy New Year!
Stay strong and stay healthy!
🎶

Performed on Jan. 12th, 2020 Music&Friends New Years Concert (House Concert)Johann Strauss II - The Blue Danube Waltz (Piano Trio)Arranged by Alex SangGeun C...

01/01/2021

Wishing you all a happy and healthy New Year! We know it’s been a challenging year and we are so grateful for your support. We feel so lucky to be able to continue to share music together.
#2021

25/12/2020

Throwback to our 2019 Christmas concert with the Downtown Brooklyn Chamber Music Festival! This is a Christmas carol medley arranged by our friend Sanggeun Choi. We hope everyone is having a happy holiday season! Adam von Housen Jacob Nordlinger Abby Hsuan Chen Chloe Seunghyen Kim

Full video on YouTube!

Chloe Seunghyen Kim, violin
Adam von Housen, violin
Abby Hsuan Chen, viola
Jacob Nordlinger, cello

🎄

24/12/2020

Merry Christmas 🎄 and Happy Holidays!!! Sending warm wishes your way! From Music&Friends❤️

21/12/2020

Checked out performance video!!!!

Thanks to VerArte Music Festival Arequipa and amazing talented students!!! 🎶😍

Fatima Del Milagro Valdivia Bolaños, violín 1
Rodrigo Antonio Vasquez Baca, violín 2
Milagros Cáceres Chávez, viola
Meyling Wong, cello

Fatima Del Milagro Valdivia Bolaños Rodrigo Vásquez Milagros Cáceres Chávez Emily Rodríguez Quirós de Victoria

https://youtu.be/92_1zImVtcw

This is from our collaboration with VerArte Music Festival in Arequipa, Peru. All the musicians in this video are also students at VerArte! It has been so mu...

16/12/2020

For this project, we are collaborating with our friend Emily Rodriquez Quirós de Victoria who founded a music festival called VerArte in Arequipa, Perù where she lives. I have been teaching cello there for the past few years and it is such a great place. Emily shared some thoughts about the festival with us and we also talked to a few students who recounted some special memories. We’re also putting together a performance of the second movement of Benjamin Britten’s “Simple Symphony” entitled “Playful Pizzicato”

Por este proyecto, estamos colaborando con nuestra amiga Emily Rodriguez Quirós de Victoria que fundó el festival de música VerArte en Arequipa, Perù donde ella vive. Yo he estado enseñando allá los 3 años pasados y es un lugar muy genial. Emily compartió algunos pensamientos con nosotros sobre el festival y también hablamos con alumnos que nos dijeron algunos recuerdos especiales. También, estamos preparando un concierto virtual de la “Simple Symphony” de Benjamin Britten titulada “Playful Pizzicato”

VerArte Music Festival Arequipa

Emily Rodríguez Quirós de VictoriaFatima Del Milagro Valdivia BolañosRodrigo VásquezMilagros Cáceres Chávez

09/12/2020

❄️ Check out full video of our recent post! 🎹✨
Zach Gulaboff Davis
https://youtu.be/DuNkkDEWMLw

This week we’re featuring a work for violin and piano by friend and composer Zach Gulaboff Davis called Reverie for Violin and Piano. We had so much fun work...