Husband and wife duet team to kick off Fall Piano Series

Husband and wife duet team to kick off Fall Piano Series

From Staff Reports

The Contraband

The McNeese State University Department of Performing Arts will present Duo Korusa – a husband and wife duet team - in the inaugural recital of the McNeese Fall Piano Series at  7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, in Tritico Theatre.

This is the first of three piano recitals scheduled for the series. 

“We are very excited to have four outstanding pianists come to McNeese to share their talents with the students and the Lake Charles community,” according to Dr. Lina Morita, associate professor of music and coordinator of the series. “Aside from the piano recitals, they will each teach a master class for our students.” 

The first program includes: “Sonata in F major, Op. 18, No. 6” by Johann Christian Bach; “Dumky Trio, Piano Four-Hands Version, Op. 90” by Antonin Dvorak; “Histories, for One Piano, Four Hands” by Jacques Ibert; and “Six Pieces, Op. 11” by Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Duo Korusa features Korean native Sujung Cho and Jacob Clark, a couple that has been performing rare or newly composed piano duets throughout the United States since 2012. This versatile piano duo is dedicated to the performance of lesser-known works of the 19th and 20th century, as well as new works of the 21st century.

Cho, an assistant professor of piano/staff and choir accompanist at Claflin University in Orangeburg, S.C., has appeared as a chamber musician and collaborative pianist in music competitions in the United States, Korea, China and Germany, where she has won awards.

She studied as an honor scholarship graduate at Ewha Womans University in Seoul and continued her studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where she received her Master of Music and her Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in piano performance.

Clark, an assistant professor of piano at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, is an active performer and concerto soloist and has played with the Lamar Civic Orchestra, South Carolina State Wind Ensemble and the Ars Nova Chamber and Washington Sinfonietta orchestras in Washington, D.C.

He has won numerous awards, including the Bradshaw and Buono International Piano Competition, Sydney Wright Accompanying Competition, Mid-Texas Symphony Concerto Competition and the Janice K. Hodges Contemporary Piano Performance Award.

Clark received his Bachelor of Music, Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in piano performance from the University of Texas at Austin.



Tickets are $15 for adults and free for K-12 students and McNeese students with an ID. For more information, call 475-5028.