James Pappoutsakis 32nd Annual Winner’s Recital at NEC September 30

Sept. 16, 2012 - PRLog -- The James Pappoutsakis Flute Competition will present Jisun Oh, winner of the 32nd annual contest, in a recital on Sunday, September 30, 2012 at 7:30 pm at the New England Conservatory of Music, Williams Hall, 290 Huntington Avenue, Boston.  Pianist Wenbin Jin will accompany Ms. Ho.  The program will include Fantaisie for Flute, Opus 79 by Gabriel Fauré; Rondo K 184 by Mozart; Sonata in E Major BWV 1035 by J. S. Bach; Grand Polonaise for Flute and Piano, Opus 16 by Theobald Boehm; Theme and Variations, Opus 160 by Franz Schubert and East Wind for Flute Solo by Shulamit Ran.

Jisun Oh won numerous competitions such as the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra, Toronto Sinfonietta, Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competitions, Kiwanis Music Festival, and Ontario Music Festival (OMFA). In the summer of 2008, she was the youngest wind finalist of the National Music Festival (Federations of Canadian Music Festivals). Jisun also appeared as a soloist with the Toronto Sinfonietta, Kichener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra, and the Academy Symphony Orchestra of the Royal Conservatory of the Music.   In recent years, she attended Banff Music Festival, the Orford Music Festival and Domaine Forget, where she studied with Emmanuel Pahud, Robert Langevin, Carol Wincenc, Jeffrey Khaner, Mattieu Dufour and Tara O’Connor. While in Toronto, she was a member of the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Young Artists Performance Program, where she studied with Julie Ranti.  Jisun is currently an undergraduate at the New England Conservatory of Music, where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Music in the studio of Renee Krimsier.

The Pappoutsakis Prize, first presented in 1980, was established in 1979 in memory of James Pappoutsakis, flutist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly four decades and beloved teacher of generations of fine musicians now performing throughout the world. Finalists in the annual competition are chosen (in a blind preliminary round) from among students at The New England Conservatory, Boston University, The Boston Conservatory, The Longy School of Music and The Berklee College of Music.

The Competition is supported in part by:  Brannen Brothers Flutemakers, Burkart Flutes, Flute FX, Flutristry Boston, Galdieri Flute Repair, Keefe Piccolo Company, Landell Flutes, Mancke Flutes, Music Espresso, Nagahara Flutes/NNI, Suffolk Dental Group, Verne Q Powell Flutes, Wm. S. Haynes Company, Williams Flutes, Yesterday Service, and Your Flute Works.

For further information, please visit www.pappoutsakis.org