More Pictures from Boston

post-concert dinner












left to right: José Fenandez, me, Jason Priset, Hsuan-Wen Chen, Pierre Hantaï, friend, Martha McGaughey, Arthur Haas

Royal Concert at the Old South Meeting House

Aula Harmoniae made its debut at the 2009 Boston Early Music Festival back in June 9th with great success. Here is a little video and a couple of pictures from the concert:

Sang Joon Park (artistic director/traverso)
Martha McGaughey (viola da gamba)
Arthur Haas (harpsichord)

Video: Quantz Sonata in D, 2nd movement

Pictures from Amato

Tony and cast with me down in the pit













Full cast













At the party with Barbara Cohen and Janet Johnson












With Tony

ONE TIME ONLY!!!
Sang Joon Park conducts
Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro
at the Amato Opera

Saturday May 30, 2009 7:30 pm














-I am very excited yet saddened to announce that I will be conducting Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at the beloved Amato Opera on Saturday, May 30th. It's a privilege to have been assigned to this date because on the very next day, Sunday, May 31st, Anthony Amato himself - now 89 years old - will conduct for the very last time at the company he led for the last 61 years and retire from the music business. I feel extremely fortunate to have been playing for Tony Amato in his orchestra as a flutist for the past 15 years. The big irony is that my father, tenor In Soo Park, now Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University in Korea, sang Rodolfo (La Boheme) and Ernesto (Don Pasquale) for Tony in the early 1980s.

Please read all about Amato Opera on wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amato_Opera

and on closing of The Amato Opera in New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/arts/music/13amat.html?_r=1


Here are some more pictures taken during rehearsals and at my very last performance as Amato flutist!

KMF MUSICA SACRA SERIES presents

SANG JOON PARK
Baroque Flute

Sunday May 3, 2009 1:00 pm

MANHATTAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
61 Gramercy Park North New York, NY 10010
(Park Avenue South & East 21st Street)












photo by Rod Goodman

Program
J. M. Hotteterre - Ecos
J. J. Rousseau - Le Printemps de Vivaldi
G. Ph. Telemann - Fantasie n. 12
M. Blavet & J. J. Quantz - Variations on Menuet l'inconu

Performance with Concert Royal
Mythic Realms

Sunday May 3, 2009 3:00 pm

St. Bartholomew's Church Chapel
51st Street Park Avenue

-click to view full size
Concert Royal
James Richman, harpsichord/director
Sandra Miller & Sang Joon Park, baroque flutes
Judson Griffin, baroque violin
John Mark Rozendaal, viola da gamba
with
Arlene Travis, soprano

Invitation to St. Matthew's Passion

The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
Concert Royal and The English Concert

Friday April 3, 2009 7:30 pm

Saint Thomas Church, New York
1 West 53rd Street (5th Avenue)






















John Scott, conductor
Oliver Mercer, Evangelist
Craig Phillips, Christus
Yulia Van Doren, soprano
Kirsten Sollek, alto
Jay Carter, countertenor
Steven Wilson, tenor
Scott Dispensa, bass

St. Thomas Church
1 West 53rd Street (5th Avenue)
New York, NY 10019
(212) 757-7013

Old South Meeting House

Happy Lunar New Year 2009!!

Three performances of
The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár
at the Amato Opera
















Saturday December 13, 2008 7:30 pm
Saturday December 20, 2008 7:30 pm
Friday January 2, 2009 7:30 pm

-I will be playing principal flute in three upcoming performances of Lehár's famed Operetta "The Merry Widow (Die Lustige Witwe)", sung in English. Come and enjoy its beautiful arias and delight in the comedy!!

Die Lustige Witwe's original stars
Louis Treumman and Mitzi Gunther
with Franz Lehar

















Read about The Merry Widow and Franz Lehár on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merry_Widow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Leh%C3%A1r

Also read about Amato Opera on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amato_Opera

Amato Opera
319 Bowery
New York, NY 10003
Tickets: 866-811-4111
Business Office: 212-228-8201
Email: info@amato.org

Two Concerts with
Stony Brook Baroque













Sunday November 16, 2008 3:00 pm
Recital Hall at the Staller Center for the Arts
Stony Brook, New York

Tuesday November 18, 2008 8:00 pm
Second Presbyterian Church
6 West 96th Street, New York City

-I am very happy to perform again with Stony Brook Baroque, winner of Early Music America's 2006-2007 Collegium Musicum Grant competition, at my beloved Alma Mater. Its distinguished director, renowned harpsichordist Arthur Haas, has nurtured countless young students into talented early music musicians. We will be giving two performances: first at the Staller Center Recital Hall at Stony Brook University on Sunday, November 16th at 3:00 pm and the second at the Second Presbyterian Church (96th and Central Park West) on Tuesday, November 18th at 8:00 pm. I will be performing in two pieces, Sonade from La Piémontoise, from "Les Nations" by François Couperin, and Benedictus from B minor Mass by Johann Sebastian Bach. To view the full program for both concerts:
http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=cf97312282&view=att&th=11d97b19464a1e2c&attid=0.1&disp=vah&realattid=f_fnhwbghe0&zw

Please come and enjoy the beautiful music and witness the flowering of many young musical talents.

For more information regarding Baroque Sundays at Three series, please visit the following link:
http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/Music.nsf/pages/season10

Invitation to Musica Viva Concert
Music of Johann Sebastian Bach



Sunday October 26, 2008
5:00 pm

All Souls Unitarian Church
1157 Lexington Ave (80th Street)




Program
-Mass in A
-Orchestral Suite in B minor
featuring Sandra Miller (baroque flute soloist)
-Cantata BWV 150 Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich
-Motet BWV 226 Der Geist Hilft

I would like to invite all my Baroque music lover friends to the "All Bach Concert" with Musica Viva Choir directed by Maestro Walter Klauss. The concert will also feature a wonderful flute soloist, Sandra Miller, my first baroque flute professor in New York. I feel privileged to play second flute for this occasion. Please come and rejoice all the heavenly music with us!!

Musica Viva Choir












Walter Klauss, Director
Sandra Miller











with Sandy











For more information contact:

Musica Viva of New York
info@musicaviva.org
1157 Lexington Ave
New York, NY 10075
(212) 794-3646

Amato Opera Guild
Woodwind Quintet


Left to Right:

Sang Joon Park (flute)
Barbara Cohen (oboe)
Nancy J. Vizza (french horn)
Zachary Cummings (bassoon)
Fred Rosenberg (clarinet)

Upcoming Performances at the Amato Opera

Verdi and his Librettists

Sunday October 5, 2008 2:30 pm

Sally Amato Opera Guild Woodwind Quintet

-I will be leading the Opera Guild Woodwind Quintet with all Verdi program: Overture from La Traviata, Grand Quartet from Rigoletto, and two movements from his rarely performed String Quartet (arranged for woodwind quintet).


Three performances of
Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata


Saturday October 18, 2008
7:30 pm
Sunday November 2, 2008
2:30 pm
Saturday November 15, 2008
7:30 pm


-I will play principal flute in one of Verdi's most beloved operas, La Traviata (1853), based on the novel La Dame aux camélias (1848) by Alexandre Dumas, fils (Junior), which was adapted for the stage in 1852. Don't forget to bring your handkerchief!! (click on each picture to view full size)

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Adelina Patti (1843-1919) as Violetta











Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895)
Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)
one of the greatest Camille on stage











Read on Wikipedia:

La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi
Adelina Patti
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Sarah Bernhardt
La Dame aux camélias

Three "Paris" Quartets at
Waltz Astoria Cafe

Saturday August 16, 2008 7:00 pm


















23-14 Ditmars Boulevard
Astoria, New York 11105
(718) 956-8742

- Waltz Astoria Classical will be presenting three"Paris" Quartets by Georg Phillip Telemann; D Major, A minor and B minor. Please join the performers Anna Eunjung Ryu (violin), Carlene Stober (viola da gamba), Gabe Shuford (harpsichord) and me, Sang Joon Park (traverso) and experience Telemann's most exquisite compositions.

Anna Eunjung Ryu
Carlene Stober











Gabe Shuford
Sang Joon Park

Picture with Gilbert Kaplan

Click on the photo to view the full size

















-This picture was taken after the concert in the Hamptons last month, by the lovely soprano soloist, Esther Heideman (click on her name to see her website). It was very special working under Gilbert Kaplan. There are many sites where you can read about him, but here are a few:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Kaplan
http://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/Musicians/GuestArtists/kaplan.asp
http://www.omifacsimiles.com/brochures/mahler_ad.html
http://www.musicweb-international.com/sandh/2003/Oct03/kaplan_interview.htm

Invitation to two concerts
The Choral Society of the Hamptons

Sunday July 13, 2008
4:00 pm & 7:30 pm









The Presbyterian Church
Main Street, Bridgehampton
2429 Montauk Highway
Bridgehampton, NY 11932-3038

Program: Bach Cantata BWV 11 "Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen"
Brahms "Rhapsody for Alto, Men's Chorus & Orchestra" and "Ave Maria"
Mahler "Resurrection Chorale" from Symphony No. 2.

Esther Heiderman (soprano)
Charlene Marcinko (mezzo soprano)
Thomas Bohlert (organ)
Gilbert Kaplan (conductor)
Mark Mangini (music director and conductor)












Tickets: Adult $30 Youth $10
For information and reservations
call (631) 204-9402

Upcoming Performance
with Baroque Band
Chicago's Period Instrument Orchestra

Wednesday June 11, 2008 7:30 pm

Symphony Center, Grainger Ballroom
220 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Il 60604-2596


















The Beguiling Flute












Bach: Suite in B minor for Flute and Orchestra, BMV 1067
Vivaldi: Il gardellino, Op.10, No. 3, RV 428
Albinoni: Concerto a Cinque Op. 2, No. 3 in A major

-I will be playing two great music written for the flute: Bach's Suite in B minor for Flute and Orchestra and Vivaldi's Flute concerto, Il gardellino. I am very happy to be invited to be a soloist with the Baroque Band Chicago's Inaugural Season's closing concert. Please read about the Band by clicking on the name, as well as Garry Clarke, its artistic director, conductor and violinist.

Garry Clarke
Click below for directions to the venue:
Symphony Center, Chicago

Contact Information:
Baroque Band
600 South Dearborn Street, Suite 1202
Chicago, IL. 60605
info@baroqueband.org
(312) 235-2368

Amato Opera Production of
Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte

Sunday June 8, 2008 2:30 pm


















-I will be playing flute in one of my very favorite operas, Cosi Fan Tutte. by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Please come and enjoy the heavenly music!!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Adriana Ferrarese del Bene
-first Fiordiligi










Anthony Amato
Artistic Director
319 Bowery
New York, NY10003
212-228-8200
Email: info@amato.org