Faculty Artist Series: Eunghee Cho, Cello - Capturing What Remains
Friday, September 13, 2024
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
“Capturing What Remains” explores the profound power of music as a living witness of the past. Moores School of Music faculty members Cynthia Clayton, Eunghee Cho, and Timothy Hester perform one of Franz Schubert’s final chamber works Auf dem Strom, a poem of farewell written in memory of Ludwig van Beethoven who had passed away only a year earlier. Moores students, led by Cho, in a conductorless string orchestra augmentation of Beethoven’s “Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der Lydischen Tonart” from String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132, a spiritual expression of gratitude for the gift of life and acceptance of mortality. The second half of the program captures the music of mourning as passages from Jeremy Eichler’s 2023 book Time’s Echo introduce Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen performed by MSM strings faculty Mann-Wen Lo, Amber Archibald, Eunghee Cho, and Eric Larson alongside students Marco Hernandez (DMA ‘26), Margaret Lytle (BM ‘25), and Ashley Wang (DMA ‘27).
Born in Davis, California, Korean-American cellist Eunghee Cho was awarded Second Prize and the special award for Outstanding Chinese New Piece Performance at the Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition (China). He has held the Joyce & Donald Steele Chair as Principal Cello of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and has performed as Guest Principal Cello with orchestras around the country including Mercury Chamber Orchestra, Boston Festival Orchestra, Dallas Chamber Symphony, Cape Symphony, and Unitas Ensemble.
Eunghee currently serves on the cello and chamber music faculty of University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, where he also directs the Moores Cello Ensemble, CelloFest Houston, and Texas Music Festival’s Chamber Music Program. Eunghee has also served on the summer teaching faculties of Texas Music Festival, Montecito International Music Festival, Heifetz International Music Institute, Texas Strings Festival, and Festival Internacional de Música Naolinco.
To learn more about Eunghee Cho and his accomplishments, please visit: www.eunghee.com
PROGRAM
Readings from Schubert’s letters
Schubert: Auf dem Strom, D. 943
Beethoven: “Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der Lydischen Tonart” from String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132
-Intermission-
Readings from Jeremy Eichler’s 2023 book Time’s Echo
Strauss (arr. Leopold): Metamorphosen, TrV 290
- Location
- Moores Opera House
- Cost
- Free
- Contact
- msmprog@central.uh.edu