By ROBIN CAUDELL
PLATTSBURGH — Got Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival fever?
Get a transfusion of Soovin Kim (violin) and festival artists — Jeewon Park (piano), Edward Aaron (cello) and Romie de Guise-Langlois (clarinet) — with "Winter Encore" on Feb. 3 in the Elley-Long Music Center in Colchester, Vt.
They perform a program of Chopin's "Polonaise Brillante for Cello and Piano," David Ludwig's "Flowers in the Desert," Beethoven's "Clarinet Trio in B Flat Major, Opus 11" and Dvorak's "Piano Trio in E Minor, Opus 90 'Dumky.'"
"So many audience members were lamenting we have to wait a whole year before this happens again," said Kim, festival artistic director.
"It's kind of the dilemma of a successful summer festival. We thought this would be a nice way to bring memories during the winter of last year's festival. Most of the pieces we were doing last summer with the exception of the Beethoven 'Clarinet Trio.'"
Soovin and company also reprise "Flowers in the Desert," by Composer-in-Residence David Ludwig for the festival last year.
"It's a very special event to be able to commission new work, and it was a beautiful piece," Kim said. "People cannot listen to a recording of it yet. It's a great chance to experience it again."
HOMETOWN SHOW
During the festival's inaugural year, Kim (son of Jin and Soon Young Kim of Plattsburgh) hoped to have performances in his hometown.
"It became a little too ambitious to add a concert in Plattsburgh," he said.
He shares a little love this time around with "Viennese Romance" Feb. 26 at Plattsburgh State's E. Glenn Giltz Auditorium.
Kim, Park, Ann Ellsworth (horn) and Hyunah Yu (voice) perform a program of Brahms's "Violin Sonata in A Major, Opus 100," Schubert's "Auf dem Strom for Soprano, Horn and Piano," Hugo Wolf's "Set of Soprano Songs" and Brahms's "Trio in E Flat Major, Opus 40 for Horn, Violin and Piano."
"All works are by 19th-century Viennese composers," Kim said. "The second half of that concert will have the Brahms horn trio."
In between the two performances, Kim will travel to Korea, where he is artist-in-residence at Kyung Hee University in Seoul.
"These days, I've been really gone nonstop on the road in different kinds of musical opportunities," he said. "It's been a very full year. In addition to my usual schedule, I'm making eight trips to Korea this academic year."
E-mail Robin Caudell at: rcaudell@pressrepublican.com
