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2013-14 Finale Concert 
of Young Chamber Musicians

The Young Chamber Musicians 2013-14 Season finally drew to a close on May 17, 2014, and with it, a fantastic year of music-making with Elena and Young-Hye. To send us off, a finale concert was held at the studio of Rena Ling in Hillsborough, California. I finally met up with the other YCM chamber groups, and we played all the repertoire we'd learned over the year!  It was a a fantastic grand finale to a unforgettable season.  We had tons of fun, and I can't wait to do it again this coming year!


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We performed works by Dvorak and Beethoven.
Alex Chien - piano; Young-Hye Lee - violin; Elena Ariza - cello


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The TAL Trio performed works of Beethoven and Dohnanyi.
Taiga Murooka - violin; Linus Lu - viola; James Ahn - cello

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The Chiaroscuro String Quartet performed works by Beethoven and Ravel.
Isbella Costanza - violin; Tsutomu William Copeland - violin; Clara Chan - viola; Irene Jeong - cello


Now the concert is over ..

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It was a long night and we were all hungry. Luckily our gracious hosts provided two meals; one before the concert, and one afterwards!

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Chatting with other friends. I'd met many of them at Music@Menlo, so it was a great surprise to see them again here.


But we weren't done yet ....

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They convinced me to join their impromptu sight reading of a Beethoven piece! He didn't actually write the piano part as 4 hands...
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I replaced the complicated arpeggios with decidedly less-graceful glissandos.

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Hey, glissandos sound cooler than arpeggios anyways! Right?

We all had a blast, and I can't wait for the next season!

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