This weekend, pianist Hyemin Kim launches a yearlong music and storytelling recital series called "Classical Voyage: Intimate Musical Storytelling at the Museum."
The "museum" is the Music House Museum in Williamsburg, and Kim plans to present four very different recitals there over the next several months.
The first recital in the series happens this Saturday night. It's called "Women's Life and Love," and Kim will perform with soprano Yeseul Choi.
Kim and Choi visited IPR's Studio A to give a musical preview of this weekend's recital.
They performed two songs from Robert Schumann's cycle "Women's Life and Love," or "Frauenliebe und Leben."
They first performed this music together when they were graduate students (and roommates) at Michigan State University, and they've wanted to make it the focal point of a complete recital for years.
Future recitals will include a June recital with fellow pianist Michael Coonrod, a solo recital in August and an October recital with Interlochen faculty oboist Daniel Gurevich.
The goal of each recital, Kim said, is to be able to communicate closely with audience members during the performance.
It was important to her that the first recital in this new series at the Music House featured voice and piano.
"I really wanted to show two musical languages in this first recital: human voice with text and words, and the piano, through my fingers," Kim said.
The "Women's Life and Love" recital starts Saturday at 7 p.m. Admission to the Music House Museum is included with each ticket.
Kim and Choi will also perform an encore of the "Women's Life and Love" recital Sunday afternoon at Interlochen Center for the Arts. It starts at 4 p.m. in the Dendrinos Chapel and Recital Hall.
Michael Culler engineered this edition of Studio A.
Scott Clemens is IPR's digital content producer. Tim Keaton provided additional support.
