CT's Own: Music for Oboe and Piano

About this event

Please join us for another Sunday afternoon Connecticut's Own concert in the Brubeck Room. We welcome back Ralph Kirmser, oboe, and Kyong Hee Cho, piano! We will hear selections from Ludwig van Beethoven, Camille Saint-Saens, Madeline Dring and Bella Bartok. Ralph Kirmser, oboe, has been oboist for the Madera Wind Quintet, the Prevailing Winds of Connecticut, and the Morningside Wind Quintet of New York City. In 2000, he was oboist for Orvieto Musica, Orvieto, Italy. He has been a regular participant at the Chamber Music conference of the East and has served on their Board of Trustees. While in college, Dr. Kirmser was principal oboist for the Vermont Symphony. Dr. Kirmser is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale School of Medicine. He is a resident of Wilton, CT, and has lived there with his wife, Sally, and their three children for over 40 years. Kyong Hee Cho began her piano career in Korea at the age of four. She gave her first concert piano performance with the Seoul Symphony at the age of eleven. She attended the Manhattan School of Music as a merit scholar where she earned a BA and MA degree in piano performance. Kyong Hee has performed numerous solo concerts to benefit international medical and disaster relief. She teaches piano at her studio in Wilton and provides leadership to her students in the planning and performance of benefit concerts. Registration required. Walk-ins welcome as space allows.