The Borderless Ends of the East and the West

• Tan Dun (1957–): Eight Memories in Watercolour, No. 7, "Floating Clouds"
• Claude Debussy (1862–1918): Images, Book 2
• Isang Yun (1917–1995): Five Piano Pieces
• Unsuk Chin (1961–): Piano Etude No. 4 «Scalen»
• Leopold Godowskij (1870–1938): Java Suite No. 1 and 6, "Gamelan" and "Bromo Volcano"

• Grace Jee Eun Oh (piano and lecture)

About

Through this lecture-recital, as part of Grace's Master project, she wishes to highlight some Eastern musical influences in contemporary classical composers with main focus on works by two Korean composers, Unsuk Chin and Isang Yun. The project also aims to outline examples of Korean traditional music in association with the Western music. Composers Isang Yun and Unsuk Chin are of interest as their lives actively experienced the events and changes of the recent history of Korea, and both to a great degree were dominated with the Western compositional style.

Grace Jee Eun Oh

Grace Jee Eun Oh is a South Korean pianist. She recently obtained her master's degree in Performance at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where she studied with Håvard Gimse and Marianna Shirinyan. At 12, she was accepted with a full scholarship to study at Wells Cathedral School in the U.K. with Hilary Coates. She completed her Bachelor of Music degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In 2015, she was awarded the Charity of Mary Barnes and the Leverhulme Trust Scholarships to pursue her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Philip Jenkins.

Grace has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician in the U.K., Norway, Belgium and South Korea. She has played in prestigious venues such as St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Milton Court and the Barbican Centre. She has been invited to perform at the Bloomsbury Festival and Cheltenham Festival. In 2010, Grace was the first Korean pianist to perform at the OB-PS 41st Presentation Ceremony of H.R.H Princess Benedikte of Denmark. In addition, she has participated in masterclasses with artists such as Leif Ove Andsnes, Bertrand Chamayou, Christian Ihle Hadland and Christopher Elton. Currently, she is pursuing her master's degree in Music Theory.