Selected CMSM Artists

Young-Nam Kim, CMSM Artistic Director

Mr. Kim, who soloed with the Seoul Philharmonic while still in his early teens, moved to the United States while still in high school and studied primarily with Louis Krasner in Syracuse and Boston.  His other teachers include Felix Galimir in New York and Zino Francescatti in Switzerland.

Founder and Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, which is celebrating its 14th season, Mr. Kim frequently performs in concerts with such distinguished artists such as Leon Fleisher, Gilbert Kalish, Robert Mann, Joseph Silverstein, Samuel Rhodes, David Shifrin, Fred Sherry, Yo-Yo Ma and others. His live performances and recordings are heard frequently on National Public Radio and his CMSM concerts are regularly aired on Minnesota Public Radio.  Most recently Mr. Kim recorded Chen Yi’s new string trio with Yo-Yo Ma and Wu Man for Sony Classics.
He also served as an Artist-in Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston and his recording of two violin concertos written for him by Gunther Schuller and Peter Child with the MIT Wind Ensemble was released on Innova Records in the fall of 2004 with much critical acclaim.

In April of 2004 Young-Nam Kim made a historic appearance representing the U.S. in Pyongyang, North Korea, performing four concerts in the International Spring Arts Festival

A long time faculty member and head of chamber music activities at Gunther Schuller’s Festival at Sandpoint, Mr. Kim founded, in 2002, the Northern Lights Chamber Music Institute/Festival held annually in August on Burntside Lake near Ely, Minnesota.  At the University of Minnesota Mr. Kim directs the New Music Ensemble in addition to his violin studio, and was named the University’s Distinguished McKnight Scholar in 1999 and received a Presidential Outstanding Community Service Award in 2000. In December 2001 Mr. Kim was honored as one of six and the only musician to be named “Artist of the Year” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Young-Nam Kim resides in St Paul with his wife and three children, and can be reached at 651-699-8592 or kimxx002@umn.edu .

Julia Bogorad (flute):

Ms. Bogorad is principal flutist of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Now on the faculty of the University of Minnesota, she also taught at Oberlin College. Ms. Bogorad makes appearances at the Ravinia, Marlboro, and Grand Teton festivals, and is a recitalist throughout the United States.

The New York Times called Julia Bogorad "a wonderful flutist— her playing is graceful, virtuosic, and always full of interest." Bogorad, who became Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra principal flute at age 22, combines an orchestra career with regular recital and solo performances. A frequent soloist with the SPCO, Bogorad has also performed at the Ravinia and Marlboro festivals.

She was flute soloist in Lukas Foss' Renaissance Concerto under the composer's direction at the Grand Teton Festival, and appeared at Tanglewood as acting principal flute of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Bogorad has presented recitals in Seattle, San Diego, and Victoria, B.C., as well as at the Phillips Gallery in Washington, D.C., New York's Merkin Concert Hall, and in the Schubertsaal of the Vienna Konzerthaus. She has also performed with Pinchas Zukerman and other SPCO members at the Rolandseck Festival in Germany. A guest of several "Saint Paul Sunday Morning" radio shows on Minnesota Public Radio, Bogorad discussed and played a variety of flutes on an unusual live recital broadcast in 1995. She released her debut solo album in 1990 on the Schubert Club's Ten Thousand Lakes label, and is a featured soloist on the SPCO's recording of Holst's A Fugal Concerto on the London/Decca label. With SPCO bassoonist Charles Ullery and harpsichordist Layton James, Bogorad has recorded a CD featuring the complete Handel Flute Sonatas. She currently serves on the music faculty of the University of Minnesota, and was visiting professor at the Oberlin Conservatory in 1987-88.

She is releasing two CD's in the fall of 2005: Flute Music of the Paris Conservatory with Margo Garrett, pianist, and Handel Flute Sonatas with Layton James, harpsichord, and SOM faculty member Charles Ullery, bassoon. Both are available at Fullharmonic.com.   juliabogorad-kogan@comcast.com

 
Photo by Katrin Talbot

Ms. Chisholm was violist for 14 years with the Thouvenal Quartet which performed widely from New York to Tibet and on national television. Currently she is professor of viola at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, and a member of the Pro Arte Quartet.

Sally Chisholm, violist of the Pro Arte Quartet and Professor of Viola at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has had an extensive career in chamber music. As a founding member of the Thouvenel Quartet of Texas, Ms. Chisholm toured Europe, China and Tibet. Internationally known for its commissioning of great American composers, including Elliott Carter, Milton Babbitt, Ernst Krenek and Mel Powell, the Thouvenel won first prize at the Weiner International Chamber Music Competition, was a finalist of New York's Naumburg Competition, and performed on NBC's TODAY Show.

Since joining the Pro Arte in 1991, Ms. Chisholm has performed at the Warsaw Conservatory in Poland, was a juror at the Tadeusz Wronski Solo Violin Competition in Warsaw, performed at the XXIII International Viola Congress, and has been featured on five CDs, including Piano Quartets by Beethoven, Fauré, Mahler, Schumann, and Strauss, the Trauermusik for Viola and Orchestra by Hindemith, and the Beethoven Serenade for Flute, Violin and Viola. She performs annually in the Festival Der Zukunft in Ernen, Switzerland and is a founding member of the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, whose collaborating artists include members of the Juilliard String Quartet and musicians from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

In 1997, Ms. Chisholm gave two master classes at the San Francisco Conservatory and performed for the Louis Krasner Memorial Concert at Jordan Hall in Boston with artists Felix Galimir, Young-Nam Kim, Samuel Rhodes, Joel Krosnick, and Gilbert Kalish. She gave the world premiere of the Andrew Imbrie Piano Quartet in March, 1998 with Bonnie Hampton, Nathan Schwarz and Young-Nam Kim.slchisho@wisc.edu  Pro Arte Quartet

Burt Hara (clarinet):

Burt Hara has been Principal Clarinetist with the Minnesota Orchestra since 1987. Hara holds a Bachelor's degree from the Curtis Institute of Music. As a guest lecturer and clinician, he has presented master classes at the Curtis Institute of Music, Duquesne University, East Carolina University, Grand Teton Orchestral Training Seminar, Minnesota Youth Symphonies, New World Symphony, Northwestern University, Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium, University of Alabama, University of Missouri - Kansas City, University of Southern California, West Coast Clarinet Symposium, and Yale University, among others. His professional experience also includes Principal Clarinetist of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Alabama Symphony Orchestra. As a college teacher, Hara has held positions at the University of Alabama and the University of Montevallo, in addition to being a clarinet instructor at the University of Minnesota.

Prior to joining the Minnesota Orchestra as principal clarinetist, Mr. Hara served in this role with the Alabama Symphony, and last season was principal clarinetist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. A graduate of the Curtis Institute, Mr. Hara makes frequent solo appearances with major orchestras and participates in numerous summer music festivals. 612/624-6016  E-mail: harax001@umn.edu

Anthony Ross (cello):

Leslie Shank (violin):

Ms. Shank is assistant concertmaster of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. A graduate of Julliard, she has participated in the Aspen, Grand Teton, and Marlboro festivals, and has appeared as soloist with a number of orchestras including the SPCO.

The Seattle native, who joined the orchestra back in 1984, attended Roosevelt High School back in the days when her classmates included violinists Aloysia Friedmann (now a violist and music director of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival) and Karen Iglitzin (formerly of the Philadelphia Quartet, now director of Chamber Music Madness).

Another important influence on Shank was the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra, in the halcyon days under the beloved conductor Vilem Sokol.  "It was amazing to grow up in this orchestra," she reports.  "We experienced such wonderful musical literature for the first time, and Mr. Sokol was a huge influence. I still have the Mahler Tenth [Symphony] recording we did. It's hard to believe we really could play that."

From Roosevelt High School, following her early studies with Maybeth Pressley and Emanuel Zetlin, Shank went on to the Mannes School of Music in New York, and then the Juilliard School, where her teachers included the late legend Dorothy DeLay. A pivotal year was 1983, when Shank appeared as soloist in the Barber Concerto with the Seattle Symphony, and also auditioned for her present spot in the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. At that time the orchestra was led by Pinchas Zukerman, a well-known violinist and conductor, and her first week with the orchestra was filled with performances at Chicago's Ravinia Festival. That's starting at the top.

Maria Jette (soprano):

Maria Jette has appeared with orchestras from around the country, including, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Houston, Kansas City, Santa Rosa, Charlotte, Buffalo, and the Minnesota Sinfonia, as well as many others. In her alternate persona, she has performed her own production of Seuss/Kapilow’s Green Eggs & Ham for over 30,000 children around the USA. Maria is a regular guest at the Oregon Bach and San Luis Obispo Mozart Festivals, and the Oregon Festival of American Music. Locally, she is often heard with Vocalessence, Chamber Music Society of Minnesota and in the annual Sopranorama! at the Southern Theater (with Dan Chouinard). Maria also often appears on the nationally broadcast public radio program, A Prairie Home Companion.

Ms. Jette's activities in 2005-6 included a recital of American folksong settings and folksong-inspired songs for the Oregon Festival of American Music ; Sofiya Gubaidulina’s Hommage à T.S. Eliot on the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra chamber series; performances and a recording of Messiah with Chicago’s Apollo Chorus; chamber music with the Minneapolis Quartet  Hill House Chamber Players, and Chamber Music Society of Minnesota. She also was featured in the world premiere of Francis Grier’s The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth with Vocalessence; and, Mozart’s Le Nozze deFigaro (Susanna) with Opera Roanoke. 

Over the summer, she programmed and sang in a 5-concert Schumann "mini-fest" for the St. Paul Summer Song Festival, toured Samuel Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915 in Australia with the San Luis Obispo Symphony, and performed several Bach solo cantatas at the Oregon Bach Festival. With longtime co-conspirators Janis Hardy, Molly Sue McDonald and Dan Chouinard, she performed a sold-out run of Sopranorama V! at Minneapolis' Southern Theater in August.     

Charles Ullery (bassoon):

Principal bassoon of the SPCO, Chuck received a degree in mathematics (at age 19) from the University of Arizona. A former member of the San Francisco Symphony, he has appeared at a number of festivals including the Grand Teton Festival where he is the principal bassoon and teaches Orchestra Training Sessions.

Charles Ullery has been principal bassoonist of the SPCO since 1975. Prior to that, he was a member of the San Francisco Symphony and the Sixth Army Band at the Presidio in San Francisco. He is a frequent soloist with the SPCO. Many composers have written works for him, including Michael Daugherty, Daniel Sturm, Russell Platt, Jay Reise, William Wallace, Erika Foin, Akmal Parwez and Daniel S. Godfrey. Ullery has appeared at the Sarasota Music Festival, the Utah Festival, the Rockport Festival, and the Carnegie Hall Festival. Since the summer of 1976, he has been principal bassoon of the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra in Jackson, Wyoming. In the summer of 2004, Ullery taught at the Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific in Powell River, British Columbia, and at ARIA at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. He spent the 1987-88 season as a faculty member at Oberlin College in Ohio, and currently is an affiliate faculty member at the University of Minnesota, Macalester College and Hamline University. He especially enjoys teaching high school students out of his home. Ullery graduated cum laude in mathematics from the University of Arizona at age 19, and started graduate work at UCLA before entering the Army.  612/624-9336  E-mail: ChuckUllery@comcast.net

Updated: October 9, 2007