NEWS Release

                                                                                                Date:  October 12, 2009                                                       Contact: ACMC/Chris Dunn

                                Phone:  910-692-4356                                                           Email:  acmc@mooreart.org

Classical Concert Series Continues with Pianist Wonny Song

Celebrating 27 years of presenting great chamber music in Moore County, the Classical Concert Series (CCS) second concert features pianist Wonny Song on Monday, November 2, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. at the Sunrise Theater in Southern Pines. Seats are still be available for sale and from subscribers who return their tickets if they are unable to attend a concert. For tickets, please visit the Arts Council of Moore County offices at Campbell House (482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines) or call 910-692-4356. Tickets are $25 per person.

Wonny Song is “a versatile, intelligent, and deeply musical young pianist,” says The Washington Post.  As winner of the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, he made his recital debuts at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall in New York and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

Mr. Song was born in South Korea and grew up in Montreal.  He began piano studies at the age of eight and received a full scholarship to Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music in 1994. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Montreal University in 1998 and continued his studies with Anton Kuerti at the University of Toronto and at the Glenn Gould Professional School with Marc Durand.  Awarded the first Elinor Bell Fellowship at the University of Minnesota in 2000, he completed his Doctoral studies there with Lydia Artymiw in 2004.

In his young and exciting international career, Mr. Song has performed with the Orchestra of St. Luke, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, the South Dakota Symphony, Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain, Naples Philharmonic (FL), the Cincinnati Symphony, Toronto Symphony, and the EuroAsian Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea and Thailand.

Other highlights of Mr. Song’s career include a solo recital as Canada’s musical ambassador to the 1993 World Expo in Korea and a 1998 performance in Bangkok at the closing ceremony of the Asian Olympic Games, an event attended by Thailand’s Royal Family.  Mr. Song returned to Korea in 2005 to perform in the opening concert of Seoul’s new Chungmu Art Hall with the EuroAsian Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gum Nan-se.

In addition to the concert, The Jefferson Inn is offering a Pre-Concert Dinner in their restaurant, One Fifty West, located less than a block from the Sunrise Theater at 150 W. New Hampshire Avenue. For $37 per person (tax and gratuity included), you will enjoy a delicious meal and your choice of the prime downtown parking places. Reservations for the dinners are required and can only be made by calling the Arts Council at 692-4356.

Classical Concert Series is presented by the Arts Council of Moore County and is sponsored by Yamaha Artists Services Inc. and The Jefferson Inn of Southern Pines. For CCS tickets and additional information, please call 910-692-4356 or visit www.mooreart.org.