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“She
has an innate ability to animate fiendishly difficult music, making it
accessible to the average ear.” -
Winnipeg Free Press
“graceful.. poised..
confident… her playing was sublime.” -
The Uniter
  Praised
by the Winnipeg Free Press as a "dynamo pianist" with an "intense focus,
virtuosic technique" and "poetic sensibility,” Su Jeon continues to
captivate audiences throughout Canada and abroad. The winner of the 2007
Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition, she recently completed a
16-city recital tour of Canada, performed the Beethoven Second Concerto
with the Montreal Chamber Orchestra, the Grieg Piano Concerto with the
North York Concert Orchestra, Prokofieff Third Concerto with the York
Symphony Orchestra, and has been invited for return engagements at the
Phillips Collection in Washington DC, Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Music
Society in Ontario, and the University of Calgary. Her recent debuts
include the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre at the Canadian Opera Company,
Outremont Art Gallery in Quebec, and St. Clement's Church in Verdun.
Ms. Jeon has performed throughout North America and
abroad, in recent years appearing in notable venues such as Lincoln
Center, Chicago Cultural Center, and Teatro Jovellanos in Spain. She has
been heard with the Arlington Philharmonic, Aspen Concert Orchestra,
Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, York Symphony Orchestra, Banff
Festival Orchestra, Hart House Orchestra of the University of Toronto
among others. Her performance of Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto with
the Gijón Symphony received critical acclaim from the Spanish press and
audience alike.
In recital and chamber appearances, Ms. Jeon has
performed at the Banff, Orford, and Stratford festivals in Canada, Aspen
Music Festival in Colorado, Shandelee Music Festival in New York, Alice
Tully Hall and Miller Theatre in New York, Harvard and Columbia
Universities, as well as Cambridge University in England. She was the
youngest pianist to be invited to the 2001 Tanglewood Music Center,
where her performances were broadcast on the WQXR New York radio
station. An active advocate of contemporary music, Su enjoys adventurous
projects of all kinds, such as performing part of Kaikhosru Sorabji’s
Opus Clavicembalisticum, the longest work ever written for the piano.
Also a passionate advocate of Canadian music, Su champions works by
Canadian composers such as Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Heather
Schmidt, David McIntyre, Jacques Hétu, and Denis Gougeon.
Su Jeon is a prize-winner of numerous competitions,
including the Shreveport Symphony Nena Wideman Piano Competition, the
International Stepping Stone Competition, the Arlington Philharmonic
Society Young Artist Competition, the German Youth Competition, as well
as the Nakamichi Concerto Competition in Aspen, Colorado. Ms. Jeon is
also a recipient of numerous scholarships and prizes such as the Van
Cliburn Scholarship at Juilliard, Alma Cockburn Memorial Scholarship,
Myrtle Meretsky Nefsky Scholarship, Cindy Calder Scholarship at the
Royal Conservatory of Music, and the Dadatel Foundation prize for
promising young leaders. In addition to her First Prize at the
Eckhardt-Gramatté, she was awarded the City of Brandon Prize for best
performance of the competition commissioned work.
Born in Korea and raised in Germany and Japan, Su
received her early musical training at the Jugendmusikschule in
Frankfurt as a pupil of Gudrun Rampini. She earned the International
Baccalaureate Diploma before moving to New York to study at The
Juilliard School, where she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees
as a student of Julian Martin. She then attended The Glenn Gould School
of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and earned her Artist
Diploma as a student of Marc Durand. In September 2010, Su completed her
doctorate at l’Université de Montréal, working with Marc Durand and
Maneli Pirzadeh. Ms. Jeon currently resides in Toronto.
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REBEKAH WOLKSTEIN
Rebekah Wolkstein performs with the Toronto Symphony, National Ballet of
Canada, Esprit Orchestra and the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto,
Canada. She has performed
as a soloist on a Mooredale concert with principal players from the
Toronto Symphony, as well as in recitals with world-renowned tenor,
Russell Braun and pianist Carolyn Maule and a klezmer performance in
Glenn Gould Studio with Annamaria Popescu, David Buchbinder and Joseph
Macerollo. Rebekah is
in high demand as a studio musician and can be heard on the recent
releases of pop and jazz stars including Sarah Slean and Emilie-Claire
Barlow.
A doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto in violin performance,
Rebekah holds bachelors and masters degrees in violin performance from
the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with William Preucil,
the concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra and Paul Kantor.
She received an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould School
professional school of the Royal Conservatory of Music as a student of
Erika Raum and Felicia Moye.
Rebekah has performed as solo first violinist with the ARC
(Artists of the Royal Conservatory) faculty ensemble at the Glenn Gould
Studio in Toronto.
Rebekah teaches private lessons at Humber College and has coached
ensembles at the Glenn Gould School Young Artist pre-college program,
the Royal Conservatory and the Mooredale Youth Orchestra.
A native of Madison, Wisconsin, Rebekah has been performing as a soloist
and orchestral musician since high school when she won an audition for
the
Madison Symphony Orchestra.
Rebekah is a versatile musician, comfortable performing and improvising
in Klezmer and Jazz styles.
She enjoys collaborating with artists from other disciplines.
She has performed for the Next Stage Festival with award winning
theatre company, Monster Theatre and with members of the National Ballet
of Canada. This June, she
will be collaborating with Tracey Erin Smith on her award-winning show,
The Burning Bush in performances in Toronto and New York.
Aside from her musical studies, Rebekah completed a third degree in
English during her five years in Cleveland at Case Western Reserve
University. Her interest in
journalism led to an internship at the
Cleveland Free Times. Three
of her short stories were published and
won prized through the university. In her free time, Rebehak enjoys tap
dancing, linyhop and playing with her dog, Ella.
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