EXCITING NEWS | Deborah Pae Joins MGAM Artist Roster
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
It is with great excitement that Marilyn Gilbert Artist Management (MGAM) welcomes cellist Deborah Pae to its roster of wonderful artists. MGAM will represent Ms. Pae in Canada and the United States. Highlights of Ms. Pae's 2016-2017 season include concerts at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in Boston, the Smithsonian National Museum in D.C., Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Columbus, Rice University's Duncan Recital Hall, and the Signature Series at the Stocker Arts Center. In partnership with Outhere Music Label, Musiq3 Radio, and the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth; the release of her live recital recording on Series Prestige, which includes works by Britten, Schubert, and Beethoven; will also take place this year.
“Cellist Deborah Pae adds major excitement to our roster as she will be playing solo with orchestra, recitals and chamber music. The excitement is generated by her musicianship and her warm and wonderful humanity.”
Debuting at sixteen with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Korean-American Pae has since played concertos with Sinfonia Varsovia of Poland, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Ensemble Orchestral de Bruxelles, Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, and the Westchester Philharmonic under the batons of Vassily Sinaisky, Thomas Wilkins, Christian Arming, Augustin Dumay, and Itzhak Perlman. Ms. Pae has also played solo recitals at the Neue Galerie, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Van Wezel Foundation’s Young Artists Series, and in 2005 debuted in Europe at the Musée du Louvre and has since been invited to perform at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Flagey Radio Hall, and Musée de Grenoble. Many of her performances have been broadcast internationally on television and radio, most notably the 2003 Grammy Awards and the 75th Anniversary of the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth.
A devoted chamber musician, Ms. Pae is the cellist of the critically acclaimed Formosa Quartet (winners of the First Prize and Amadeus Prize at the 2006 International London Quartet Competition) and founder of Trio Modetre (winners of the 2016 Tarisio Trust Young Artist Grant and Silver Medal at the 2012 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition). She has been a featured artist at festivals including Marlboro, Ravinia, Crans-Montana Classics, Festival Les Musicales de Colmar, and the Amsterdam Cello Biennale. Ms. Pae has shared the stage with artists including Itzhak Perlman, Pamela Frank, Charles Neidich, and members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Mendelssohn, Johannes, Pro Arte, Takács, and Cleveland String Quartets.
Ms. Pae enjoys performing new and seldom-played works. Her debut recording released in 2013 by Zig-Zag Territoires, features Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor with conductor Christian Arming and the Liège Royal Philharmonique. In 2017, Trio Modetre’s debut recording Tribute to Frank Bridge: Masterpieces Among Peers will celebrate the 75th anniversary of Bridge’s death and revive his second piano trio. Furthermore, the American composer Jeffrey Mumford is currently writing a concerto of radiances blossoming in expanding air, which will be premiered by Ms. Pae in London with the English Symphony Orchestra (ESO) in 2018. Pae has also given world premieres of Fantasia Festa by Jonathan Crehan, Le Dormeur du Val by Roberto Kalb, and Song Recollections by Lei Liang.
Ms. Pae is newly appointed Professor of Cello at Eastern Michigan University. She has served as Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at Académie et École Anglicorde in France, Visiting Guest Artist at Columbia University’s Music Performance Program, and Chamber Music Mentor at the Juilliard Pre-College Division, New England Conservatory Preparatory School, and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. She has also served as artistic manager of Music for Food Boston benefit concert series, and founder and curator of the WLP Lunchtime Series in Boston (2010-2012).
Beginning at four on a bricolage cello made of a Cheerios box wound with strings, three years later, Ms. Pae became the youngest cellist accepted into the Juilliard Pre-College Division. She is an alum of the Juilliard School and the New England Conservatory, and Associated Artist at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Belgium. Her mentors include cellists Gary Hoffman, Laurence Lesser, and Joel Krosnick as well as violinists Miriam Fried and Sylvia Rosenberg, and violist Kim Kashkashian. Recognized for her artistic versatility, Ms. Pae has received major awards from the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund, Belgian American Educational Foundation, DoMusica Foundation, and National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts.
Ms. Pae plays a Vincenzo Postiglione cello (c. 1885) generously on loan from the Arts and Letters Foundation.
About Marilyn Gilbert Artist Management (MGAM):
Marilyn Gilbert Artists Management (MGAM) has embraced change with a roster of musicians whose work challenges the artificial boundaries of genre and whose sparkling musicianship gives them broad appeal.
We are committed to developing the careers of dynamic, innovative musicians. The music market is undergoing a massive shift, as audiences are increasingly comprised of new communities with new tastes. In this context, musical innovation and adaptation is not only an aesthetic, but also a necessity. We are proud to represent artists who speak to a multitude of audiences, in a multitude of ways.
Audience development is a constant process. For this reason, we partner with artists who reach beyond the stage and make a difference in people’s lives, and work closely with both artists and presenters to develop programmes that transcend the concert hall and embrace the educational and outreach opportunities required to foster an active music culture.
Contact:
Marilyn Gilbert Artists Management Inc.
Marilyn Gilbert, Director
www.mgam.com
marilyn@mgam.com
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Toronto, ON
M5P 2Y3
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