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¡ã Left to right : Bokyung Byun(º¯º¸°æ4³â), Alberta Khoury(1³â) and Tengyue Zhang(3³â) / Lincoln Center. Photo by Julia Crowe.
Earlier this month, three guitar students who study with Sharon Isbin at Juilliard, gave a free weekend concert at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Bokyung Byun, Alberta Khoury and Tengyue Zhang took to the stage to perform together as a trio, opening with Jacques Chandonnet¡¯s spirited arrangement of Manuel de Falla¡¯s Danza del juego de amor followed by Isaac Albéniz¡¯s Córdoba, Op. 232, No. 4. As a trio, the group plays with cedar guitar warmth, clarity, unison and good balance.
¡ã Bokyung Byun regales the audience with the horrific details of Poe¡¯s tale, moments before performing Koshkin¡¯s Usher Waltz. Photo by Julia Crowe.
Following the trio performance, each guitarist returned to the stage, one at a time, to perform solo pieces, starting with Ms. Byun. A native of Seoul, Korea, Bokyung Byun, is the winner of the 2007 Guitar Foundation of American International Youth Competition and Vienna International Youth Competition. Before entering Juilliard, she studied with William Kanengiser in Los Angeles and with Chen Zhi in Beijing. She performed Nikita Koshkin¡¯s Usher Waltz, inspired by Edgar Allen Poe¡¯s short story, Francisco Tárrega¡¯s Recuerdos de la Alhambra and Johann Kaspar Mertz¡¯s Fantaisie Hongroise. Byun performs with fleet-fingered, delicate precision and expressiveness and she is an equally engaging storyteller with a dry sense of humor as she describes the background of her pieces.