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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Ein Sommernachtstraum Op. 61 (excerpts)
Henry Purcell, The Fairy Queen (excerpts)
Emilie Mayer, Symphony No. 2 E minor
Holly Hyun Choe, conductor
Ensemble Reflektor
Johann Sebastian Bach, Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
Florence Price, The Oak
Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Joseph Haydn, Die sieben letzte Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze Hob. XX/1A & B
Farzia Fallah, 1. Neues Letztes Wort
Emma O’Halloran, 2. Neues Letztes Wort
Anahita Abbasi, 3. Neues Letztes Wort
Louise Volkmann, 4. Neues Letztes Wort
Molly Joyce, 5. Neues Letztes Wort
inti figgis-vizueta, 6. Neues Letztes Wort
Ying Wang, »Vater, in deine Hände lege ich meinen Geist.«
Ying Wang, composition
Ludwig van Beethoven, The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43
Götz Alsmann, speaker
Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Werke u. a. von Richard Strauss, Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski, Johann Strauß und Edith Piaf
Staatsorchester Darmstadt
Britta Byström, A Drama in the Air
Sergej Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No.2, Op.18
Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
Charlie Albright, piano
The Spokane Symphony
Ludwig van Beethoven, Overture to 'Leonore' No. 3 in C major, Op. 72
Carl Reinecke, Flute concerto in D major, Op. 283
Robert Schumann, Symphonie No.4 in D minor Op.120
Jasmine Choi, flute
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
George Gershwin, Piano concert in F
Jessie Montgomery, Records from a Vanishing City
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphonie No. 38 KV 504 'Prager Sinfonie'
Anton Gerzenberg, piano
Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck
Holly Hyun Choe, born in South Korea and raised in Los Angeles, impresses with her presence and charisma on the podium. From 2020/21 to 2021/22, she has served as assistant conductor of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under Paavo Järvi. At the same time she has already conducted the Orchestre de Paris, Sinfonieorchester Basel, and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra.
In the 2023/24 season the up-and-coming conductor will continue her series of exciting debuts on the podium of orchestras such as Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Beethovenorchester Bonn, Musikalische Akademie Mannheim, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestre National de Cannes. Also, she will start her role as Artiste Associée of the Geneva Chamber Orchestra for the next three seasons.
Further, Holly Hyun Choe holds the position of principal conductor of the chamber orchestra Ensemble Reflektor, which envisions itself as a messenger of music culture without boundaries. Together, they will make their debut at the Beethovenfest Bonn and return to the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival / Elbphilharmonie as well as to Alte Oper Frankfurt.
As part of her commitment to promoting female composers, she regularly programmes works by Clarice Assad, Grazyna Bacewicz, Lili Boulanger, Britta Byström, Louise Farrenc, Fanny Hensel, Jennifer Higdon, Jessie Montgomery, Emilie Mayer, Caroline Shaw, Ethel Smyth, Dobrinka Tabakova, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and Galina Ustvolskaya.
Holly Hyun Choe recently completed her studies with Prof. Johannes Schlaefli at the Zurich University of the Arts. She began her musical journey self-taught: having learned to play the clarinet at the age of 13 by herself, she did not receive her first music lessons until the age of 19. In 2015, Holly Hyun Choe completed a master's degree with Prof. Charles Peltz at the New England Conservatory. She has attended master classes with Bernhard Haitink, Jorma Panula, Fabio Luisi (Concertgebouw Orkest), Peter Eötvös, Sylvia Caduff, and Jaap van Zweden, and has assisted Esa-Pekka Salonen (Orchestre de Paris), Leonard Slatkin (Orchestre national de Lyon), Simone Young (Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne/Zurich Opera), as well as François-Xavier Roth, and Karina Canellakis (Gürzenich-Orchester Cologne).
In 2018, she was selected for the German Music Council's Grant Forum Dirigieren; she has also been supported by a Solti Foundation Career Assistance Award, a scholarship of the Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship, and as a participant in the Peter Eötvös Foundation Mentoring Programme.
2023/2024 season
"The interpretation [of Beethoven's 7th Symphony] by Holly Hyun Choe is captivating. She begins cautiously, without straining the slow introduction. In the Vivace and all that follows, she achieves high energy and shadings that transmit chamber music-like intimacy. The orchestra follows her, brilliantly disposed, carried by the timpani as a resonant foundation."
Tagesspiegel, Sybill Mahlke, 15.10.2022
"In this location, too, it is more than just assiduous fun to listen to this combination. This is also due to (...) guest conductor Holly Hyun Choe, whose energetic conducting shows that she is Paavo Järvi's assistant in Zurich. She ensures evident precision and keeps the fire burning. Thus the E minor symphony becomes a listening adventure, and the not quite large orchestra enlivens this rarity with vigour and enthusiasm. Applause and encore for Ensemble Reflektor. As is sometimes the case with insider tips: the really good ones should not remain secret for too long."
Hamburger Abendblatt, Joachim Mischke, 7.4.2022
Brahms: Symphony No. 4, I. Allegro non troppo
Orchestre National de Metz
Wald Ensemble, recorded on 30 September 2021Flagey Hall, Brussels, Belgium
M. Karlowicz: Serenade for Strings, Op. 2, September 2021
Wald Ensemble, recorded on 30th September 2021Flagey Hall, Brüssel, Belgien
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, II. Largo
Filharmonie Hradec Králové