Attorney at Law, Edward C. Kang LLC
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
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Guest Speakers
2024 Pulitzer PrizeWinner
New York Times bestselling author of “Master Slave Husband Wife”
Ilyon Woo is a Korean-American author. She won the 2024 Pulitzer for Biography for her 2023 book, Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, which was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2023 and one of the 100 must-read books of 2023 by the New York Times.
In 2010, Woo published The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times. Her books focus on 19th-century American history.
Woo was a featured author at the 2024 Exeter Literature Festival and 2024 Newburyport Literary Festival.
She graduated with a B.A. in the Humanities from Yale College in 1994, and received her PhD in English from Columbia University in 2004. She grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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 ReviewLindemann Young Artist at Metropolitan Opera
Ye In Kwak, Piano
As a rising star in the Lindemann Young Artist Developent Program at Met Opera, Jonghyun Park made his Met debut last season in The Magic Flute and followed by Romeo et Juliette. In the 2024-2025 season he was casted in Fidelio, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and a concert production of Tristan und Isolde with the Philadelphia Orchesta under Yannick Nezet-Seguin.
Recent operatic engagements include at Opera San Jose, Palm Beach Opera, and Yale Opera. He was the recipient of the Fritz Wunderlich Award from the 2024 Opera Index Vocal Competition. He holds degrees in voice from Seoul National University and Yale University.
Korea Music Foundation presents
Carnegie Hall Debut Recital
Jonghyun Park, Tenor
Gerald Martin Moore, Piano
(Director, Yale Opera at the Yale School of Music)
Friday, Nov. 21, 2025 | 7:30pm
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall