YU Holds ‘Overseas Alumni Invitational Concert’ to Commemorate 73rd Anniversary
August 13, 2020, pr
Scheduled to deliver a message of hope to overcome difficulties with beautiful melodies under the theme ‘Reverberation and Sharing’ Plans to broadcast the concert live via the YU YouTube channel for the untact age [July 21, 2020]
The YU College of Music will hold the ‘Overseas Alumni Invitational Concert’ to commemorate the 73rd year anniversary of the school and to offer healing with music in the tough conditions due to COVID-19 at 7:30 p.m. on July 23 at the YU Cheonma Art Center Grand Hall. This concert will be the first concert for the YU College of Music’s Major of Voice and plans are to hold concerts every year with alumni and students.
This concert that will be held under the theme ‘reverberation and sharing’ plans to deliver a message of hope for overcoming past hardships and to welcome the new age through the medium of voice that has beautiful musical reverberations. In particular, it will be aired lived on the YU YouTube channel so that it can be enjoyed by a wider audience in the untact age, and the concert hall will be arranged according to the government’s social distancing policies.
This was organized by the YU College of Music Major of Voice and alumni who are actively performing abroad will team up to participate in this recital. In particular, Baratone Lee Dong-hwan (Voice, class of ‘00) who swept the Belvedere and Vinas International Concours and is performing at a major opera theater in Germany, Bass Lim Chae-joon (Voice, ‘01) who took first place in the JoongAng Music Concours and then studied in Italy where he was awarded at the Domingo and Bilbao Concours and is performing in the global arena, Baritone Seo Jeong-hyeok (Voice, ‘04) who was recently selected as a young Korean singer who shined in the global opera world by Auditorium Magazine, Tenor Lee Beong-ryong (Voice, ‘04) and other YU alumni who who are currently studying at national music schools in Italy will appear to offer beautiful and romantic reverberations.
