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So-Mang Jeagal

Piano

Thursday Concert

Music Room

Tickets are $40, $20 for members and students with ID; museum admission for that day is included. Advance reservations are strongly recommended.

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Program

Born in Daegu, South Korea, in 1983, So-Mang Jeagal gave his first recital at age 11. He won the Grand Prize at the 2014 Washington International Piano Competition and first prize at the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition in the same year. A pianist with a wide repertoire and a particular sympathy for music in the grand Romantic tradition, Jeagal’s program at the Phillips includes Rachmaninoff’s formidable Second Sonata—a work championed by Vladimir Horowitz—plus a set of four scherzi by Chopin.

PROGRAM:

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF (1873-1943)
Piano Sonata No. 2 in b-flat minor, Op. 36 (1931)
     Allegro agitato
     Non legato – Lento
     L’istesso tempo – Allegro molto

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN (1810-1849)
Scherzo No. 1 in b minor, Op. 20 (1833)
Scherzo No. 2 in b-flat minor, Op. 31 (1837)
Scherzo No. 3 in c-sharp minor, Op. 39 (1839)
Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54 (1842)                                                                    

About the Artist

Pianist So-Mang Jeagal performed in many international music festivals and concert series at major concert halls, such as Salzburger Schloss Konzerte of Austria, Konzerthaus of Germany, La Madeleine of France, Seoul Arts Center, J. F. Kennedy Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall. He was chosen to be part of the Kumho Virtuosi Trio Concert Series and toured in four major cities, Sydney, Canberra, Wellington and Auckland, of Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Jeagal also toured in the US including New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Toronto, Canada, sponsored by the Seoul National University Alumni Organization in US.

A winner of several national and international competitions, Mr. Jeagal is a recipient of the Grand Prize at the Korea Music Foundation Competition and the First Prize at the Dong-A Music Competition and Asia-Pacific Young Artist Competition. In 2014 alone, he won First Prizes at two renowned international competitions, the Washington International Competition for Piano and the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition. As the winner of the competition, Mr. Jeagal presented solo recitals of the music of Liszt at the prestigious Liszt Ferenc Museum and Research Center in Budapest and the Hungarian Cultural Center in London. He was also invited to give a solo recital at the Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island.

Mr. Jeagal was born in Daegu, South Korea. He began studying the piano at the age of five and gave his debut recital at the age of eleven. He attended the prestigious performing arts high school in Korea, Seoul Arts High School, and received the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees with highest honors from the Seoul National University. He graduated Artist Diploma at the Thornton School of Music of USC as a full scholarship student under the tutelage of Professor Kevin Fitz-Gerald. Mr. Jeagal has participated in Masterclasses with eminent concert pianists Leon Fleisher, Murray Perahia, John O’Conor, Klaus Hellwig, Hiroko Nakamura and Hae-sun Paik.

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