Summer Music Series at Clifton Lutheran

TWO OUTSTANDING YOUNG MUSICIANS – SUNDAY, JUNE 25TH

On Sunday June 25th, at 10.,00 a.m., Clifton Lutheran Summer Music Series continues with a performance of Brahms 3rd Violin Sonata by two internationally-known young artists, violinist Miki Nagahara, and pianist Sun Chang. Clifton Lutheran Church is located at 150 Humphrey Street, ,Marblehead(www.cliftonlutheran.org)

Humphrey Street, Marblehead

Miki Nagahara is a senior dual-degree student at Northwestern University studying violin performance and German in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. She currently studies violin with Shmuel Ashkenasi and has previously studied with Almita Vamos, Peter Zazofsky, the late Roman Totenberg, John Holland, and Esther DeGrunigen.

An active member of the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern, Miki has served as concertmaster of the Northwestern University Chamber and Symphony Orchestras. She has spent summers at Tanglewood Music Center, Pacific Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, the Orford Arts Centre, the Mozarteum Summer Academy, and the Heifetz Institute.

Her string quartet, Quartet Amí, won first prize at the WDAV Young Artists Competition as well as the Dover Quartet Competition at Northwestern University. They recently performed in the inaugural season of the Mineral Point Chamber Music Festival in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. In the coming year she will be finishing her undergraduate studies in Munich, after which she plans to pursue a graduate degree in violin performance.

Sun Chang, 21, recently completed her degree in piano performance as a student of Alan Chow at Northwestern University. She spent a year abroad at the Royal Academy of Music in London studying piano with Rustem Hayroudinoff and harpsichord with Carole Cerasi. She was recently featured on “Live from WFMT” and gave a solo recital at Preston Bradley Hall at the Chicago Cultural Center.

In September 2015, Sun was a soloist in the all-Gershwin concert featuring Sylvia McNair with Camerata Chicago. She has also soloed with University of Puget Sound Orchestra, Philharmonia Northwest, Utah Symphony and Northwestern’s Baroque Music Ensemble.

Prior to Northwestern, she studied with Dr. Peter Mack following her move from South Korea in 2003. She was chosen as one of Seattle Chamber Music Society’s “Emerging Artists" and has won many competitions including the Simon Fiset, Northwest Chopin, Russian Chamber Music, Seattle International Piano Festival and Outstanding Young Artists competitions. In 2011 she won the first prize at the MTNA National Senior Duet Competition alongside her brother. Sun is a recipient of the Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation Scholarship from the Musician’s Club of Women and is a Luminarts Fellow at the Union League Club of Chicago.