Ian NG: "Blush" for solo violin (2018) [Live video]

World premiere of Ian Ng's "Blush" (2018) at the Fringe Club, Hong Kong. This work was commissioned and premiered by violinist Patrick Yim.
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Ian Ng's music has been described by The New York Times as "invigorating" with "intricate rhythms", and by The Financial Times as having "a solid rhythmic grounding". The South China Morning Post observed that Mr. Ng's "attractive contrapuntal features are begging to be heard again".
Mr. Ng is the recipient the American Prize, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, Robert Avalon International Music Composition Competition and ACL Young Composers Competition. In Spring 2016, Mr. Ng made his Carnegie Hall debut with his commissioned work Think Twice - Three Musical Games, performed by Duo Scordatura. His past season commissions include I Recall Last Night at the Opera for New York Symphonic Brass at DiMenna Center for Classical Music, orchestral work How Fair Thou Dost Shine for the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra at the Brooklyn Museum, chamber music A Constant Fretful Stamping of Hooves for the NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Frederick Lowe Theater and piano solo An Occasional Fretful Stamping of Hooves for the 42nd Hong Kong Arts Festival at the Hong Kong City Hall. As NYU resident composer, his commissioned composition for their orchestra, Cité en l’air, had its premiere in February 2012 at Symphony Space in New York City.
His music Grand Jeté on a Violin was choreographed by Marcelo Gomes, principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre, and had its premiere in 2012 at Lincoln Center. It has subsequently been performed at New York City Center, and at theaters in Los Angeles, North Carolina, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Japan, Brazil and Israel. Other dance and theater collaborations include Complexions Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce Theater, Fire Island Dance Festival, American Ballet Theatre JKO School, Some Dance Company and the City Contemporary Dance Company.
Honolulu-born violinist Patrick Yim has performed as soloist, recitlist, chamber musician, and orchestral violinist throughout the world, including performances in Carnegie Hall and David Geffen Hall (New York), Seoul Arts Center, Harpa Concert Hall (Reykjavík), Hong Kong City Hall, Severance Hall (Cleveland), Orchestra Hall (Chicago), Teatro alla Scala (Milan), and the Musikverein (Vienna).
He made his solo debut with the Honolulu Symphony after winning the Honolulu Symphony Concerto Competition. In recent years, he has performed concerti of Bach, Brahms, Bruch, Mozart, and Lalo. He has performed in the violin sections of the Hawaii Symphony and The Cleveland Orchestra, among others. He joined The Cleveland Orchestra on tours to New York City, Chicago, Bloomington, Iowa City, Miami, and major cities in Europe, including Paris, Milan, Brussels, Luxembourg, Cologne, Munich, and Vienna.
Yim has performed chamber music with members of the Juilliard, Emerson, St. Lawrence, Pacifica, and Ying Quartets, and with musicians from The Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. He has also performed at festivals in Canada (Banff and Toronto Summer Music Festival), China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Iceland, South Korea, and throughout the United States, including a recent performance in Carnegie Hall with members of the Emerson Quartet.
As Guest Music Director of the Collegium Musicum Hong Kong, he collaborated with world-renowned pipa virtuoso Wu Man and performed concerts at the Hong Kong City Hall as violinist and conductor.
He has performed world premieres at festivals in the United States and Europe, and he recently curated a series of concerts related to the Silk Road at the Hong Kong Museum of History for which he commissioned and premiered new works for solo violin by Michael-Thomas Foumai (Honolulu), Austin Yip (Hong Kong), and Yao Chen (Beijing). He has performed with the Contemporary Chamber Players (New York) and the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble. In 2018, he commissioned and premiered two new works with Juilliard Quartet violinist Joel Smirnoff.
Yim has taught violin and chamber music at Stony Brook University, the Cleveland Institute of Music Preparatory Department, the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival, and the Rushmore Music Festival. He has taught masterclasses and workshops in the United States, Denmark, Iceland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China.
He is a graduate with honors of the Cleveland Institute of Music where he was a student of David Updegraff and William Preucil and was awarded the First Prize at the Institute’s Darius Milhaud Performance Prize Competition for two consecutive years. At CIM, he studied chamber music with the Cavani Quartet and Peter Salaff of the Cleveland Quartet. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University where he studied violin with Philip Setzer, Jennifer Frautschi, and Hagai Shaham, and chamber music with the Emerson Quartet.