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wilmettebeacon.com LIFE & ARTS<br />
the wilmette beacon | July 25, 2019 | 27<br />
Posted to WilmetteBeaconDaily.com 11 days ago<br />
Wilmette cellist among standouts at summer recital<br />
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Trio Tempest of the Music<br />
Institute of Chicago,<br />
featuring pianist Wooba<br />
Song, 11, of Buffalo Grove,<br />
violinist Elle Cho, 10, of<br />
Park Ridge, and cellist<br />
Jan Vargas Nedvetsky, 12,<br />
of Wilmette, performed a<br />
summer recital at Nichols<br />
Concert Hall in Evanston<br />
on June 11.<br />
Trio Tempest recently<br />
became the youngest ensemble<br />
in the 46-year history<br />
of the Fischoff National<br />
Chamber Music<br />
Competition to advance to<br />
the quarterfinal round. The<br />
trio is coached by MIC faculty<br />
members Sang Mee<br />
Lee and Elaine Felder. At<br />
Fischoff, Trio Tempest<br />
performed the Beethoven<br />
“Trio Op.1 no. 1 in E Flat<br />
Majo,r” “Allegro, Adagio<br />
from F. Mendelssohn Piano<br />
Trio in D minor Op.49,”<br />
and “Primavera Portena,”<br />
by Astor Piazzola.<br />
The June 11 recital also<br />
included a surprise encore<br />
by MIC Academy Program<br />
alumnae — pianist Natalie<br />
Vargas Nedvetsky, 21, and<br />
violinist Gallia Kastner,<br />
22, — performing Mozart<br />
Sonata K 301 in G Major,<br />
2nd Movement. Jan Nedvetsky’s<br />
sister, Natalie,<br />
grew up in Wilmette and<br />
now resides in New York<br />
City, studying piano performance<br />
at The Juilliard<br />
School and Russian History<br />
and Literature at Columbia<br />
University. Natalie Nedvetsky’s<br />
upcoming Chicago<br />
area performances will feature<br />
chamber music recitals<br />
with cellist Horacio Contreras<br />
and violist Stephanie<br />
Block in August 2019, as<br />
well as a solo recital in the<br />
Dame Myra Hess Memorial<br />
Concert Series on Jan.<br />
8, 2020. Gallia received her<br />
Bachelor’s Degree at the<br />
Colburn Conservatory in<br />
Los Angeles. She has performed<br />
as a soloist with the<br />
Chicago Symphony, Cleveland<br />
Symphony, Montgomery<br />
Symphony, and many<br />
more. She performs on a<br />
Giovanni Francesco Pressenda<br />
violin on generous<br />
loan from the Mandell Collection<br />
of Southern California.<br />
Jan Vargas Nedvetsky<br />
currently studies with cellist<br />
Horacio Contreras at<br />
MIC. Since 2016. Nedvetsky<br />
has had regular<br />
master classes with Vladimir<br />
Perlin, a renowned Belorussian<br />
cello pedagogue,<br />
and also started master<br />
classes with Jerome Pernoo<br />
of the Paris Conservatory<br />
of Music this past January.<br />
Jan has performed in the<br />
Musica Mundi International<br />
Chamber Music Festival<br />
in Belgium the past three<br />
summers, and this summer<br />
Trio Tempest will perform<br />
at the Festival. Jan plays<br />
on a Jules Grandjon cello<br />
made in Mirecourt, France<br />
in 1860. In addition to practicing<br />
cello, he enjoys math,<br />
science and history. He has<br />
earned a first-degree black<br />
belt in Taekwondo, and is<br />
a prize winner in regional<br />
mathematics competitions.<br />
Representing cultural diversity<br />
in music, Trio Tempest<br />
members blend Chinese,<br />
Korean, Colombian<br />
and Russian cultures and<br />
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Trio Tempest members<br />
(left to right) Elle Cho,<br />
Wooba Song, and<br />
Wilmette’s Jan Vargas<br />
Nedvetsky, a student at<br />
New Trier, following the<br />
June 11 recital at MIC’s<br />
Nichols Hall. Jan Loew<br />
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speak several different languages.<br />
Individually, each<br />
has won numerous local<br />
and national competitions.<br />
Wooba Song studies piano<br />
performance with Yumy<br />
Lee Kim at MIC. Wooba<br />
received First Place and<br />
also Best Interpretation of<br />
a Korean piece in the 2018<br />
Sejong Music Competition.<br />
Elle Cho studies violin with<br />
Almita Vamos at MIC. Elle<br />
has been a prize winner at<br />
numerous competitions<br />
including the Walgreens<br />
Concerto Competition,<br />
Sejong Cultural Society,<br />
Confucius Music Competition,<br />
and Grandquist<br />
Geneva Competition. Elle<br />
performed with the Oistrakh<br />
Symphony Orchestra<br />
after winning the DePaul<br />
Concerto Competition. In<br />
addition to her achievements,<br />
Elle has taken part<br />
in masterclasses led by<br />
violinists Ilya Kaler and<br />
Vadim Gluzman.<br />
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