For Immediate Release – Lawton, OK, March 31, 2008
Cellist Michael Mermagen and Pianist
Hyunsoon Whang to perform concert
Cameron University’s Lectures and Concerts Series and the Department of Music will present a
unique afternoon of chamber music by cellist Michael Mermagen and pianist Hyunsoon Whang on
Sunday at 3 pm, April 6th, 2008 in the Cameron University Theater. The program will include
Bach’s Cello Suite and sonatas by Chopin and Debussy.
Michael Mermagen made his debut at the age of sixteen with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
and since then has been in high demand as a soloist, chamber musician and a teacher. He has
given numerous recitals and master classes across North America, Europe and Asia and has
recorded for the Arabesque label. He has also performed live on NPR’s “A Prairie Home
Companion” with Garrison Keillor. He serves as a faculty member at the Catholic University of
America in Washington D.C. and the Aspen Music Festival and School where he has held the
position of principal cellist of the Aspen Chamber Symphony for the past 18 seasons. He plays a
rare Gagliano cello made in Naples, Italy in 1774.
Hyunsoon Whang holds the Louise D. McMahon Endowed Chair in Music and serves as a
Professor at Cameron University where she has been teaching since 1993. Whang is widely
sought after as a recitalist and collaborator. She has delighted audiences in more than 400
concerts in the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Switzerland, Japan, and her native
Korea. She has appeared as a soloist with such conductors as Leonard Slatkin, Joel Revzen,
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Nicholas Harsanyi and Miriam Burns. She has performed at Paul Hall in Lincoln Center, the Aspen
Music Festival, Se-Jong Cultural Center in Seoul, and Santory Hall in Tokyo. Whang was trained
at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the St. Louis Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School
(where Mermagen and Whang met as students), and received a doctorate from Indiana University
in Bloomington.
The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Department of
Music at 580.581.2440.
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