Tickets
$25
Doors Open at 5:30 PM
Concert begins at 6 PM
The innovative Reflections in Music series returns with artistic director Bruce Wolosoff and an ensemble of gifted musicians inviting audiences to Love Stories, a chamber music concert of duos and trios all of which have something to do with love
Composer and pianist Bruce Wolosoff, , soprano Luna Seongeun Park, violinist Max Tan, and cellist Aaron Wolff will perform classics by Faure, Rachmaninoff, Piazzolla, Clara Schumann, and the newly revised version of Bruce Wolosoff’s acclaimed piano trio “The Loom” which was inspired by watercolors by his good friend and The Church co-founder Eric Fischl.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM & ARTISTS
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Reflections is a 501(c)3 nonprofit which hopes to bring the appreciation of classical music to new audiences and to spark new ways of thinking about and engaging with the classical music experience to those who are already music lovers. For more information visit reflectionsinmusic.org.
BRUCE WOLOSOFF
COMPOSER & PIANIST
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“Bruce Wolosoff is a formidable pianist and composer” (Gramophone) who has been lauded as “an authentic American voice” for his integration of classical, jazz, blues, and contemporary influences. Recent projects include the solo piano album “Memento” on Avie Records, which is currently in rotation on radios stations throughout the world. “Paradise Found,” a recent album of Wolosoff’s music for cello and piano that he recorded with cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio was a Billboard Top 10 bestselling classical album. Wolosoff has recently completed a double concerto “At the Still Point of the Turning World” for violinist Michael Guttman and cellist Jing Zhao.
Upon its release in 2018, the Wolosoff concerto for cello & orchestra, performed by Sara Sant’Ambrogio with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Grzegorz Nowak was also a Billboard Top 10 classical album. Critic Jerry Dubins of Fanfare Magazine described the concerto as one of “compelling beauty” that “can be declared an instant masterpiece.” Wolosoff collaborated with the late choreographer Ann Reinking on two award-winning ballets, “The White City” and “A Light in the Dark.”
Bruce Wolosoff is the artistic director of Reflections in Music. For More information visit brucewolosoff.com
LUNA SEONGEUN PARK
SOPRANO
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Luna Seongeun Park, a rising young soprano from South Korea, has been praised for her ethereal voice and outstanding musicality.
In 2023 March, she performed a concert The 10 Faces of Maria Callas to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Callas's birth at the Consulate General of Greece in New York. In April 2023, she performed on the Begin Again Music Concert in Carnegie Hall.
She has performed as Gilda in Yonsei Opera Gala's Rigoletto, and sang the the role of Lucinda in Mannes Opera's Dark Sisters. Luna was soprano soloist at Seoul Y Classic Festival and Seoul Youth Arts Festival sponsored by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and she produced and starred in the College Song Festival at the Seoul Arts Center. Other performances include a solo presentation by composer Kim Hyung-jin in Yeoro Night of Creative Songs at Kukje Art Hall and she was the soprano soloist for Mozart's Massa in C minor K.427.
Ms. Park is a certified performance director of the Seoul Art Song Association. She has won several awards, including 1st place in Classical Music Magazine Chunchu Concour and 2nd place in The Korea Young Artist Music Competition, and gold prize in the International Youth Music Concour.
MAX TAN
VIOLINIST
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Praised as "eloquent" by the New York Times and "warmly rhapsodic" by the Boston Globe, Taiwanese American violinist Max Tan has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, forging a varied career as performer and educator. He has soloed with orchestras such as the Chamber Orchestra of Wallonie, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, The Juilliard Orchestra, amongst others. Recipient of the 2023 Gershen Cohen Violin Award from Juilliard, he will make his Carnegie Hall recital debut in 2024. Mr. Tan is an alumnus of Harvard College. Currently a doctoral candidate at Juilliard, he is founder and artistic director of Soundbox Ventures, concertmaster of Opera Philadelphia, and assistant faculty of violin and chamber music at Juilliard's Pre-College Division. His mentors at Juilliard include Catherine Cho, Donald Weilerstein, and Itzhak Perlman.
AARON WOLFF
CELLIST
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Aaron Wolff is a New York City-based cellist and performer active in solo, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary capacities. He gave his Carnegie Hall debut in Weill Recital Hall this past December as the winner of the 2023 Leo B. Ruiz Memorial recital. Other recent performances include Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in A Major at Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Schumann’s Funf Stücke im Volkston at IMS Prussia Cove Concerts, Debussy’s Cello Sonata on CNN’s Quest Means Business, and Marc Migo’s La Dona d’Aigua with the Juilliard Orchestra.
As a high school student of Natasha Brofsky, Aaron won First Prize in the Boston Symphony Concerto Competition, and as a college student of Darrett Adkins was winner of the Oberlin Concerto Competition. Aaron was a finalist in both the 2021 Young Concert Artist International Auditions and 2021 Juilliard Concerto Competition, and was one of four American candidates at the 2021 Geneva International Cello Competition.
Equally at home in chamber music, he has collaborated with the Argus Quartet, A Far Cry, The Boston Trio and eighth blackbird, and has spent return summers at Yellow Barn, the Perlman Music Program, and Lucerne Festival Academy. He currently plays with numerous groups including Metropolis Ensemble, New York Classical Players, Contemporaneous, Argento New Music Project and Princeton Symphony.
Aaron has performed in the Metropolitan Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, The City Reliquary, MASS MoCA, Nasher Sculpture Center and The Cleveland Art Museum as well as traditional venues like Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Symphony Center Chicago, Prague’s Rudolfinum, Vienna’s Musikverein, Köln’s Philharmonie, and KKL Luzern.
Aaron has also found creative outlets in acting – most notably in a lead role in the Coen brothers’ film A Serious Man – and in arranging and writing about music: he has provided string arrangements for Comedy Central’s Broad City and covered New York’s new music scene for the online journal I Care If You Listen.
Aaron received a B.A. in comparative literature and B.M. in cello performance from Oberlin College & Conservatory. He then completed Master’s degree at Juilliard, where he was a Kovner Fellow under Joel Krosnick, and an Artist Diploma under Tim Eddy and Fred Sherry. He is now pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at CUNY: The Graduate Center, studying with Mark Steinberg. Aaron plays an 1813 Thomas Kennedy cello made in London.