Shriver Hall Concert Series Announces New Artists for Rescheduled Recital Feat. Zlatomir Fung & Chaeyoung Park on May 7

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SHRIVER HALL CONCERT SERIES ANNOUNCES
NEW ARTISTS FOR RESCHEDULED CELLO RECITAL

Cellist Zlatomir Fung and Pianist Chaeyoung Park Join for New Performance
on Wednesday, May 7 at 7:30 pm at Shriver Hall

"one of those rare musicians with a Midas touch" —Bachtrack about Zlatomir Fung

www.ShriverConcerts.org

Baltimore, MD (January 28, 2024) — Shriver Hall Concert Series (SHCS) — Baltimore’s premier presenter of chamber music ensembles and solo recitalists — is excited to announce a rescheduled cello recital after the performance set for January 19 was canceled due to snow. While the originally slated artists, cellist Pablo Ferrández and pianist Julio Elizalde, are unable to join for the new date, SHCS is thrilled to welcome cellist Zlatomir Fung and pianist Chaeyoung Park – making her Baltimore debut – on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 7:30 pm.

Fung and Park present a compellingly curated program featuring works by Brahms (Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, arranged for cello and piano), Tchaikovsky (“Lensky’s Aria” from Eugene Onegin), Justin Dello Joio (Due Per Due), and Bernard Herrmann (“Scène d’amour” from Vertigo). They also perform the Baltimore premiere of Marshall Estrin’s Fantasia Carmen.

Cellist Zlatomir Fung burst onto the scene as the first American in four decades (and youngest musician ever) to win First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition Cello Division. In April 2025, Signum Records releases Fung’s debut album, a collection of opera fantasies and transcriptions for cello and piano. Fung served as Artist-in-Residence with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for the 2023-24 season. He was a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Winner in 2022, awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2020, and a participant in WXQR’s Artist Propulsion Lab in 2023. He performs on a circa 1730 cello by Domenico Montagnana, on loan from a generous benefactor. 2024-25 marks Fung’s first season on the cello faculty at his alma mater, The Juilliard School.

First Prize Winner of the 2022 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions and Finalist in the 2023 Rubinstein Piano Competition, Chaeyoung Park has been praised as a passionate pianist who “does not play a single note without thought or feeling” (New York Concert Review). Park made history as the first female Korean pianist to win the Hilton Head International Piano Competition in 2019. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Julliard School, where she is currently an Artist Diploma candidate studying with Robert McDonald.

Shriver Hall Concert Series’ season is made possible through generous support from the Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore County Commission for Arts & Sciences, and Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.

Concert Information
Zlatomir Fung, cello and Chaeyoung Park, piano
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Shriver Hall | 3400 N. Charles Street | Baltimore, MD 21218
Tickets: $46 Single Tickets and $10 Students
Link: www.shriverconcerts.org/fung 

BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108 (arr. for cello and piano)
JUSTIN DELLO JOIO: Due Per Due for Cello and Piano
BERNARD HERRMANN: “Scène d’amour” from Vertigo (arr. Z. Fung)
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: “Lensky’s Aria” from Eugene Onegin (arr. Mikhail Bukinik)
MARSHALL ESTRIN: Fantasia Carmen for Cello and Piano (Baltimore Premiere)

The Piatigorsky Memorial Concert

About Shriver Hall Concert Series
Since 1966, Shriver Hall Concert Series (SHCS) has been “Baltimore’s finest importer of classical music talent” (The Baltimore Sun) and the area’s premier presenter of chamber music ensembles and solo recitalists with a mission to craft performances and educational programs at the highest level of excellence. A 5-time recipient of Baltimore Magazine’s distinction “Best Classical Music” in its annual “Best of Baltimore” issue, the coveted subscription series features many of the world’s most renowned soloists and ensembles, presented in The Johns Hopkins University’s Shriver Hall.

Founded in 1966 by Dr. Ernest Bueding, a pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins University, and a group of similarly dedicated music enthusiasts, SHCS set out to make an important contribution to the vitality of an already vibrant city. When flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal walked onto the stage of Shriver Hall for the first concert, more than 1,100 people witnessed the launch of what is now recognized as a remarkable success story: Shriver Hall Concert Series. In the succeeding years, SHCS has presented hundreds of acclaimed and emerging international artists in classical chamber music and recitals and a legacy of important debuts and premieres. In addition, SHCS collaborates with local schools and subsidizes hundreds of student tickets each season.

The list of artists presented by SHCS is remarkable—Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia, Ewa Podlés, Maurizio Pollini, Jacqueline du Pré, Mstislav Rostropovich, Jordi Savall, András Schiff, Rudolf Serkin, Janos Starker, Daniil Trifonov, Lynn Harrell, Emmanuel Ax, Alban Berg Quartet, Guarneri Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Cleveland Quartet, and Quartetto Italiano, among many others. SHCS also has a history of championing important musicians early in their careers, including Richard Goode, Hilary Hahn, Hélène Grimaud, Dawn Upshaw, Lang Lang, and the Emerson String Quartet. Commissioned composers include Timo Andres, Sebastian Currier, Jonathan Leshnoff, James Lee III, Han Lash, Caroline Shaw, and Nina C. Young.

Designed specifically for the community, SHCS offers the Discovery Series, a series of free concerts presented in venues throughout the region focused on artists emerging on the national and international scene. Artists featured include Narek Hakhnazaryan, Colin Currie, Xavier Foley, Eric Lu, and the Dover Quartet. SHCS also offers the annual Spring Lecture Series, a series of free talks focused on annual topics related to the intersection of music and society and a variety of student programs.

For more information, visit www.shriverconcerts.org.

Photo of Fung (left) by Marco Borggreve, photo of Park (right) by Shervin Lainez

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