Sat Jun 17
Needleman/Kline/Lim Trio
2PM / $10 - $25 | $1 Fees In-person Attendance
Needleman/Kline/Lim Trio
Program:
William Grant Still (1895-1978) - Vignettes for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano
Alyssa Morris (b. 1984 )- Songs of Solitude {WORLD PREMIERE}
Valerie Coleman - Trio Toccata for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano (2014)
Jennifer Higdon - Aria {WORLD PREMIERE} for Oboe and Piano
Jenni Brandon (b. 1977) - Double Helix
Francis Poulenc - Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano, FP43 (1926)
Asha Kline is the winner of 2023 Beautiful Today Young Artist Award. ‘Beautiful Today Society’ was founded by pianist Jennifer Lim to provide scholarships and performance opportunities to talented young artists around the world. Katherine Needleman is also on the artistic advisory board.
Katherine Needleman, oboe
Asha Kline, bassoon
Jennnifer Lim, piano
Katherine Needleman joined the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as principal oboist in 2003, the same year she won first prize at the International Double Reed Society’s Gillet-Fox Competition.
A lifelong improviser, she has recorded the Marmalade Balloon, an album of improvised, ambient chamber music with distinguished classical music colleagues as well as synthesizers from the 1960s and 1970s. She started writing music down on paper during the COVID-19 pandemic and won the International Double Reed Society’s Inaugural Commissioning Competition with her sonata for oboe and piano. They commissioned her to write a work for English horn and piano which received its premiere in July, 2021, with Alison Teale of the BBC Symphony.
A Baltimore native, Ms. Needleman attended high school at the Baltimore School for the Arts but left early to attend the Curtis Institute of Music. She served on the faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University for fifteen years and is currently on faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music.
Asha Kline is in her third year of undergrad studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she is a student of Daniel Matsukawa. She currently holds the position of assistant principal bassoon in the New Haven Symphony. In 2022, Kline was named the first prize winner of the Boston Woodwind Society’s Matthew Ruggiero International Bassoon Competition and 2023 Meg Quigley Vivaldi competition first prize. Kline has appeared as soloist with orchestra as a two-time winner of the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestra’s concerto competition (2020, 2018) and the Columbia Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition (2017). She hails from Ellicott City, Maryland.
Praised by The Financial Times Germany for her "stupendous technique in break-neck passages, and, in the slow movement, deeply penetrating substance", Korean-Canadian pianist Jennifer Lim first came into the spotlight when she captured the Grand Prize at The Korea Times National Music Competition at age 8. She studied with Peter Serkin at the Curtis Institute of Music where she was awarded the coveted Rachmaninoff/Festorazzi Prize upon graduation. At The Juilliard School, she was a protegee of the legendary pianist Bella Davidovich and received her Master's Degree. She won top prizes at the Canadian Music Competitions and Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition, and was awarded a Diploma at the Clara Schumann International Competition in Dusseldorf. She has seven commercially released CDs to her credit. Since 2018, Ms. Lim has also beeen executive director of Beautiful Today, a non-profit society supporting younger artists and various charities. She is represented worldwide by Quintessenz, Munich.
2 pm Eastern/1 pm Central/12 pm Mountain/11 am Pacific/6 pm GMT
In-person seats: $25 / $10 full-time students with valid ID
Attendees receive a link to the recording to view for one week.
Streaming Cost is $15
The link will be revealed to live stream participants 15 minutes before the show
and will remain active through June 24
Donations Welcome
2PM / $10 - $25 | $1 Fees In-person Attendance