The Roswell Music Club at Mimosa Hall
Part of the Roswell Arts Fund Pop Up Performance Series
presents Mikyung Sung, Double Bassist
**Ticket purchase includes Hors d'Oeuvres and Wine
About The Artist:
Mikyung is one of the most beloved double bass soloists of today, inspiring to student bassists and audiences alike for her naturally expressive interpretations, bel canto phrasing, colorful range of timbres, luminous, yearning tone quality, and fearless virtuosity.
Since arriving in the US this summer, Mikyung has performed with the Emory Chamber Music Society, gave a guest duet appearance with Nina DeCesare at UNCSA's Double Bass Day, and appeared as soloist with the Atlanta Festival Youth Orchestra, as well as giving masterclasses at UNCSA and Kennesaw State University. She is currently in Korea for a month, where she is giving a recital as well as two performances with her double bass quartet, the Emeth Ensemble.
In the past Mikyung has performed as soloist with the Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Seongnam Philharmonic, Colburn Orchestra (conducted by both Ludovic Morlot and Yehuda Gilad), Caesura Youth Orchestra (Los Angeles), Erato Ensemble (Korea), Philharmonia Corea, KNUA Orchestra, and Guri Philharmonic.
She has been invited to perform in future seasons with the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt and Bergen Filharmoniske Ungdomsorkester, and to give masterclasses at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Penn State, Juilliard and Manhattan Schools, and the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London.
A few years ago, Mikyung was invited to perform the Beethoven Septet in the Brahms-Saal of the Musikverein Wien with Julian Rachlin, Sarah McElravy, Daniel Ottensamer, and Radek Baborák, a concert that was unfortunately canceled due to covid.
Her debut album "The Colburn Sessions" (with pianist Jaemin Shin) was positively reviewed in Fanfare Magazine, saying for instance:
"Massenet’s ubiquitous “Méditation” from Thaïs (1893) sounds as natural to Sung’s instrument as the more familiar violin version, with the middle register sweetly lush in the manner of an exalted cello."
"Mendelssohn composed his 1843 Sonata No. 2 in D for his brother Paul, a cellist. Sung has no trouble negotiating the rapid passagework of the first movement Allegro assai vivace, leaning hard into the melodic tissue... A breath-taking finesse marks the whole movement."
"César Franck’s familiar 1886 Sonata in A Major... well serves Sung in transcription, given her innate skills in voicing and expressivity... The singing line of the second movement Allegro provides a real moment of instrumental intimacy from Sung and Shin, the kind of double bass lyricism some of us recall from having heard American bassist Gary Karr. The gradual acceleration of figures from Sung at the movement’s coda would raise the roof for any audience. Poise and poetry illuminate the last two movements, the Recitativo-fantasia and canonic Allegretto poco mosso, literally removing any trace of the music’s origins as such and transporting us to that refined world of instrumental accomplishment at its best."
Mikyung won the grand prize, audience prize, and special jury prize at the 2010 JM Sperger Double Bass Competition in Germany at age 17, as well as prizes at the 2015 ISB Solo Competition in Colorado and 2017 Bradetich Competition in Texas, along with winning all the major Korean music competitions.
Mikyung was a principal bassist of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in the 2018-19 season and taught at the Shanghai Orchestra Academy. She received her Artist Diploma from The Colburn School and BA from Korea National University of Arts.
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About the Producers
The Roswell Music Club is a neighborhood organization in Roswell, Georgia, dedicated to presenting extraordinary classical artists in intimate settings.
Friends of Mimosa Hall & Gardens is a registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to preserving Mimosa Hall and promoting its use for the community.
Roswell Arts Fund, an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is the designated arts agency for the City of Roswell. Roswell Arts Fund was founded to strengthen the scope of public arts in the city and to champion the ability of the arts to excite the imagination, strengthen public places, and encourage conversation.
