Dear Friend:

I am pleased to share with you that Sarah Koo, Cellist, will make her New York Recital Debut on Saturday, February 19, 2000, at 5:00 PM, at WEILL RECITAL HALL at CARNEGIE HALL. Sarah is the youngest Winner of 1999 Young Artists Award Auditions. She is a member of ICAS Friends circle. Please kindly note further information and the particulars below. Thank you.

Sincerely, Sang Joo Kim / signed Sr. Fellow & Executive Vice President

THE NEW YORK DEBUT WINNERS SERIES

Saturday, February 19, 2000, at 5:30 PM
WEILL RECITAL HALL at CARNEGIE HALL
Sarah Koo, Cellist

David Dunford, Pianist

ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL takes pleasure in presenting as a Winner ofits 1999 Young Artists Award Auditions, SARAH KOO, in her New York Recital Debut.

A native of Chicago, Sarah Koo, age 19, is currently in her second year in the Bachelor's program at The Juilliard School where she is a student of Ardyth Alton, and is the recipient of the Genevieve Hustead Scholarship. She gave her first solo performance at the age of five, and won her first competition at the age of eight. Throughout subsequent years, she was a prize-winner in sixteen more competitions. She made her concerto debut at the age of twelve as soloist with the Lincoln Hall Symphony Orchestra. During the following years, Sarah was a featured soloist with the Niles West Symphony and the Kishwaukee Symphony, as winner of its concerto competition. Her previous studies were at the Music Institute of Chicago (peviously known as the Music Center of the North Shore) with Gilda Barston and Richard Hirschl. Her orchestral involvement, which started at the age of six, has led her to work with renowned artists such as Christoph Eschenbach, Myung Wha Chung, Otto Werner Mueller, Jahja Ling, and the principal cellists of both the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic. In the summer of 1999, she attended the Pacific Music Festival in Japan as the festival's youngest member. An avid chamber musician, Sarah's chamber music teachers have included Joseph Kalichstein, Jerome Lowenthal, Curtis Macomber, Toby Appel, and Lewis Kaplan. Sarah has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and concerto soloistm the major cities of the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom and Japan, with performances at Chicago's Orchestra Hall, and New York's Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall.

PROGRAM

TOCCATA (Arr. by Gaspar Cassado) ........... GlROLAMO FRESCOBALDl

SONATA in F Major .......................... JOHANNES BRAHMS

Allegro vivace
Allegro affettuoso
Allegro passionato
Allegro motto

SEVEN VARlATlONS on "BEL MANNERN" (from Mozart's "Die Zauberflote") ...................... LUDWlG van BEETHOVEN

SONATA for Solo Violoncello .................. GEORGE CRUMB

Fantasia
Tema pastoral con variazioni
Toccata

TICKETS: $17. General Admission. On sale at Camegie Hall Box Office, and one hour prior to performance at Weill Recital Hall Box Office. For mail-orders, send check payable to Artists International Presentations, Inc. with a return SASE to the address below.

Artists International Presentations, Inc.
521 Fifth Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, N. Y. 10017
Leo B. Ruiz, Founder & Executive Director