Second Sunday Salon Series: Music and Conversation With Alice Yoo & Michelle Ross

New Paltz, New York - Unison’s Second Sunday Salon series will conclude its 2013 season with an afternoon on music and conversation with Alice Yoo and Michelle Ross on Sunday, December 8 at 2pm.

Alice Yoo returns to Unison after inaugurating our Second Sunday Salon series in the spring.  Alice Yoo has performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad, as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, performing in prestigious venues such as New York’s Weill and Zankel Hall, Boston’s Jordan Hall, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.  She has won top prizes in the Cleveland Cello Society Competition, Holland-American Music Society Competition, and the National Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition, just to name a few.

Allice currently resides in New York City and is on faculty at Bard College’s Preparatory Division. Both Alice Yoo and Michelle Ross are members of the Academy, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.

Joining Alice Yoo will be violinist Michelle Ross who enjoys a career as a soloist, chamber musician and composer.  She has been featured as a soloist with the Westchester Philharmonic, Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra, and Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra.  Michelle has given recitals and lectures at the Neue Galerie, Old Westbury Gardens, Grand Central Academy of Art and WMP Concert Hall. Festival appearances include performance at the Marlboro, Music@Menlo, Perlman Music Program, and Kneisel Hall chamber music festivals.

As a composer, Michelle’s works have been premiered in Lincoln Center’s Beyond the Machine festival and at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, and her music recently went on tour with the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. Having trained with Itzhak Perlman since age 12, Michelle went on to pursue a master’s degree from The Juilliard School and a bachelor’s degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.  She has also studied with Dorothy DeLay, Catherine Cho and Ronald Copes.  As part of her Academy program, Michelle teaches in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn High School of the Arts.

Tickets purchased in advance are $20 ($15 for Unison members) and $25 at the door ($20 for Unison members).  Students are half price with a valid ID.  To order tickets, visit www.unisonarts.org or call (845) 255-1559. Unison is a not-for-profit multi-arts center located at 68 Mt. Rest Road in New Paltz.