Fortepianist Tae-Young Kim is the goodwill ambassador of a Korean initiative, the ‘One Month Festival’, which she advocates to organise in The Netherlands as well.

‘One Month Festival’ is initiated in Korea by ‘The House Concert’ organization, the oldest and leading Korean house concert organization.

‘The House Concert’ organises annually special events, usually in July, on various performance locations. This year 2015, they go worldwide with ‘One Month Festival’, including house concerts, salon concerts, museum concerts, school concerts, church performances and so on.

Any podium can join as one of the festival venues.
The intention is to have performance at venues without restriction, with close distance between musicians and the listeners, like the Geelvinck Salon.

The initiators of ‘One Month Festival’ are convinced that music is an international language, and music can unite the world in friendship and peace. Any place and anyone can join in ‘One Month Festival’, as a performer and as audience, if they share the same conviction.

This year will be the starting point for ‘The House Concert’ to expand the festival as a global event. Holding the official motto ‘Arts for  Everyone, Everywhere, Everyday’, ‘One Month Festival’ is held in 27 countries, 154 cities. with total 432 performances by 1500 performers during July 2015.

‘One Month Festival’ in Museum Geelvinck: Tae-Young Kim with ‘Mozart vs. Clementi’

The reminiscence of a historic piano duel:

It is a famous story, that Mozart and Clementi had a piano ‘battle’ in 1781 at the Royal Court of Vienna. On a Summer day in the 21-th Century at the Geelvinck Salon, their brilliant piano music will be performed by fortepianist Tae-Young Kim. Reminding the historic piano battle in front of Joseph II, Mozart and Clementi’s music will vibrate us on the same types of Viennese and English historic pianos, which were played in Vienna and London during their lifetime

Program:

Short Improvisation : interlude of a Korean traditional folk melody

W.A. Mozart on Zahler (Viennese grand piano ca. 1805):

– Variations in D major on Minuet by Duport KV 573
– Adagio in C for Glas Harmonica
– Sonata in B flat Major KV 333

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M. Clementi on Stodart: (English grand piano ca. 1815)

– 3 pieces from ‘Gradus ad Parnassum’, Op. 44 no. 12, 24, 36
– Grand Sonata in A Major Op. 50 no. 1