Salon Concert Series
Amadi Azikiwe, violin
Julee An , piano
Thursday, February 20th, 2025, 6:30 pm
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
$30 Members - $40 Non-Members
Join Harlem Symphony Orchestra Director Amadi Azikiwe while he stops at the Arts Club of Washington during his international tour for an intimate salon-style concert in the upstairs parlor. The program will include works by Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Beethoven, and an American blues selection.
Includes a meet the artist at a reception following the program.
6:30 pm Doors open
7:00 pm Program
8:30 pm Reception with the artist
Amadi Azikiwe, violist, violinist, and conductor, has been heard in recital in major cities throughout the United States, such as New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Houston, Baltimore, and Washington, DC, including an appearance at the US Supreme Court. Mr. Azikiwe has also been a guest of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at the Alice Tully Hall and the Kennedy Center. Abroad, he has performed throughout Israel, Canada, South America, Central America, Nigeria, India, Japan, and Hong Kong.
As a soloist, Mr. Azikiwe has appeared with the Prince George’s Philharmonic, Delaware Symphony, Virginia Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Fort Collins Symphony, Virginia Beach Symphony, Roanoke Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Western Piedmont Symphony, Salisbury Symphony, the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra, the City Island Baroque Ensemble of New York, the National Symphony of Ecuador, and at the Costa Rica International Music Festival.
Currently, Mr. Azikiwe is Music Director of the Harlem Symphony Orchestra. He is also Community Engagement Director of the Harlem Chamber Players and a member of the Pressenda Chamber Players.
As an orchestral musician, he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and as guest principal violist of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra.
A native of New York City, Mr. Azikiwe first studied music with his mother, after which he began training at the North Carolina School of the Arts as a student of Sally Peck. His studies continued at the New England Conservatory with Marcus Thompson and at Indiana University as a student of Atar Arad.
JULEE AN, Pianist Regarded as an artist of great intensity, depth and virtuosity, pianist Julee An has appeared as soloist in some of the most prestigious venues around the globe, including the Grand Hall in St.Petersburg, Russia. Her successful solo recital debut at the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, was marked as the second and only occasion that a Korean pianist had been invited to perform, the first being the legendary pianist Kun-Woo Baik. Since her debut as a solo recitalist at age 10, as guest soloist with orchestra at age 11, Ms. An has performed in major cities in almost every state in the U.S. in recital and with orchestras, and toured extensively throughout Germany, Holland, Belgium, and Switzerland. She made her first, month long, eighteen-city tour on concert stages throughout Europe at age 17. Ms. An was invited as the highlighted guest artist to launch the very 1st Shigeru Kawai Concert Grand to the U.S. at the Piano Technicians Guild in Chicago, as well as being guest artist at the Prince Albert Chamber Music Festival in Hawaii, Mosel Festiwochen Musikfestival in Germany, International Piano Series in Charleston, Old First Church Series in San Francisco sponsored by the Chopin Foundation, Embassies in Washington DC, Music Teachers National Associations' (MTNA) conventions in Texas, Louisiana, and Nebraska, to name a few. Her performance of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No.1 with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic was broadcast live throughout Russia, and many of her live performances have been televised and radio broadcasted in Canada and the U.S. Ms. An's many awards include First Prizes at the Young Keyboard Artist International Competition, the American Music Scholarship International Competition, National MTNA Baldwin and Yamaha Competitions. Ms. An began her piano studies at age 4 in Seoul, Korea, with her mother, and continued extensive work with Julian Martin at Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University, and John Perry at University of Southern California. As a pedagogue beginning her teaching career working with both undergraduate and graduate piano performance majors at USC as an assistant to Norman Krieger, she currently lends a small portion of her schedule to work with intensive private students, landing their music studies at Yale, University of Maryland, Peabody Conservatory, Stanford, among other prestigious institutes. After performing as first guest artist for the Korean-American Scholarship Foundation, a scholarship was established by the foundation in Ms.An's name, which continues to be awarded annually, to Korean-American students of excellence in academics and leadership since 1991. Ms. An currently resides in Arlington, VA, where she shares her time as a guest lecturer, adjudicator, solo artist, chamber musician, and orchestral soloist.
Discounted parking is available after 6 pm (free for members with membership card)
