Korea Music Foundation
Cordially Invites You To Our

Annual Gala Benefit Concert

“Love Stories”

(in Song and Prose)

9. 20. 2025

Saturday | 12 PM

tHE yALE cLUB
50 Vanderbilt Ave, New York, NY 10017

Korea Music Foundation
Cordially Invites You To Our

Annual Gala
Benefit Concert

“Love Stories”

(in Song and Prose)

9. 20. 2025

Saturday | 12 PM

tHE yALE cLUB
50 Vanderbilt Ave,
New York, NY 10017

Honorees

American sculptor and Pratt Institute Professor Emeritus
Chairman, Byucksan Engineering

Guest Speakers

2024 Pulitzer PrizeWinner

New York Times bestselling author of “Master Slave Husband Wife”

Ilyon Woo is the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom—an instant New York Times best-seller, one of the New York Times “Ten Best Books of the Year,” a People Magazine “Top 10 Book of the Year,” and a finalist for a Kirkus Prize, also named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, and Oprah Daily. 

Ilyon is previously the author of THE GREAT DIVORCE: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. She holds a BA in the Humanities from Yale College and a PhD in English from Columbia University.

Finalist, 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction

"SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS"

Ed Park is the author of the novel Same Bed Different Dreams (2023), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His 2008 novel, Personal Days, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker,The Atlantic, Harper’s, and many other publications. He is a founding editor of The Believer and has worked in book publishing. His story collection An Oral History of Atlantis is forthcoming in July.

Park is a graduate of Yale and Columbia. Born in Buffalo, he now lives in New York City with his family. He teaches writing at Princeton University.

Artists

An Innovative and Versatile Clarinet Ensemble​

Hana Kim (1st Clarinet), Geon Park (2nd Clarinet), Hyun Joo Kang (3rd Clarinet), Seungho Choi (Bass Clarinet)
Guest Artists: 
Sungeun Baek, Piano | Hyunwoo Song, Drums

Quartet Piri has become one of the leading Korean chamber groups in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area since their inaugural concert in May, 2013. Piri is a general term for “wind instrument” in Korean. The name reflects the coming together of eastern and western cultures in our musical heritage.

“This Clarinet Quartet displayed style, commitment, and charm.”

The New York Concert Review​

Bass-baritone from Seoul, South Korea

Sunghoon is a member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. In the 2025–26 season, he will make his Met debut as the Second Armed Man in The Magic Flute, sing Mozart’s Requiem with the NEPA Philharmonic and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Lexington Philharmonic, and return to the Aspen Opera Theater as a Renée Fleming Artist, where he performed Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and covered Colline in La bohème.

He has appeared in the Met’s Patron Concert of opera scenes, the Orchestra Workshop with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the spring recital series at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Recent operatic highlights include Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro and Marco in Gianni Schicchi at Aspen, Gremin in Eugene Onegin and Nardo in La Finta Giardiniera at Indiana University, and earlier roles at Yonsei University, including Leporello in Don Giovanni.

On the concert stage, Han has sung Verdi’s Requiem with the Carmel Symphony, Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli at Yonsei, and appeared at Carnegie Hall in 2024, performing works by Mozart, Verdi, Brahms, and Korean composers such as Du-nam Cho.

He won the Indiana District of the Met’s Laffont Competition, placed in the Central Region, and has been recognized in the Gerda Lissner, MIOpera, and NSAL competitions. Han is an alumnus of the Aspen Opera Theater and Korea National Opera Studio, and studied at Yonsei University and Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.

Korea Music Foundation presents
Carnegie Hall Debut Recital

Sunghoon Han, Bass-baritone
(From Seoul, South Korea)

Friday, Nov. 21, 2025 | 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall

Co-Chairs

Attorney at Law, Edward C. Kang LLC

Investor and Advisor

Professor, Harvard Law School

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