Ahn Trio at The Lincoln Center Out of Doors Concert

We were thrilled that so many of you turned out despite the rain at the Lincoln Center Outdoors concert on 8/14, where we played the U.S. Premiere of Pat Metheny’s “Yu Ryung”! We had just come back two days before from Mexico and were quite exhausted, but all of you gave us so much energy! And thank you Pat for writing a gorgeous new piece for us — we will be playing it a lot! We are looking forward to our ASIA Premiere of the piece this winter.

Lucia, Angella and Maria when we arrived for the rehearsal at the Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park. (before it started raining)

Audience with their colorful umbrellas all stayed with us braving the cold rain. Many thanks!!!

Our concert was also featured on the New York Times. You can read the article here!

That’s all for now. Have a great weekend!

Maria

Ahn Trio in Mexico

We had a great trip to Mexico, and have some photos that we would like to share with you:

Ahn Trio at the San Miguel de Allende Chamber Music Festival Aug 7-11.  We played the world premiere of Pat Metheny’s “Yu-Ryung” and the Mexican premiere of almost every piece on the program, most of which were either written or transcribed for us.

Ahhhh, this is how Maria’s sweet cello suffers flying with many airlines with different (sometimes outrageous) regulations!

  
Angella and Maria rehearsing at the concert hall in Mexico.  We were super excited to play the world premiere of Pat Metheny’s “Yu-Ryung” in Mexico, and people loved it!

 
The Angela Peralta Theater in beautiful San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where we performed.  We were thrilled that our first ever performance in Mexico was successful and that all our CDs were sold out at the concerts.  We felt ‘mucho’ loved!

  
We savored authentic Mexican food for five days!

 

Teatro de la Republica in Queretaro (where we also performed) nearby city of San Miguel. Another charming city.

 

More rehearsing at the hall in Mexico.

 

The famous Parroquia Chuch in San Miguel was one of the most beautiful buildings we have seen. 

 

 

Colors on the streets, which you see everywhere in San Miguel, are so inspiring and beautiful.  No wonder they attract so many artists here.  Side note: Neal Cassady (from Jack Kerouac’s ‘on the road’ book) died here.

 

Live broadcast of our concerts was aired in the same evening in the main square.  It was set up in such a beautiful spot!

 

We became tourists ourselves in the main square.

 

When we got to the square, people started cheering us instead of watching the screen…We loved their warm welcome in Mexico!

 

Angella, Lucia and Maria with the Mexico City Youth Philharmonic Orchestra students.

 

Having the Parroquia as a backdrop, I have to say, was a bit more of an exquisite and exotic view than the TV-screens in Times Square!

 

With very talented students at the San Miguel Chamber Music festival, whom we gave formal master classes earlier that day.  They played for us as we walked by the outdoor cafe where they were playing a show.

That’s all for now.  We will post some photos from our Lincoln Center Out of Doors concert next.  Have a great week!

Best from Maria

 

 

Ahn Trio’s performance tomorrow

Hi friends!

We hope you can join us…

Thurs. (Aug.14th) at 7PM, Lincoln Center Outdoors FREE CONCERT!

USA Premiere of Pat Metheny’s “Yu Ryung” written for the Ahn Trio plus many selections from our latest album, “Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac,” including Ronn Yedidia’s “Song on the Land”

Damrosch Park
Southwest corner of the Lincoln Center Plaza
(62nd Street near Amsterdam Avenue) NYC

P.S. many thanks to friends in Mexico for coming to our shows 2nights in a row last weekend!

http://www.lincolncenter.org/show_events_list.asp?eventcode=-62530

Best from Maria

Ahn Trio at Lincoln Center Out of Doors Concert

The Ahn Trio will be performing at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors concert in New York City on Thursday, August 14th. The admission is FREE! Click here for more information.

When: Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:00 PM
Where: Damrosch Park Bandshell (62nd Street near Amsterdam Avenue) map
Admission: FREE, no tickets required!!

Photos from iTunes Live Festival

Hi everyone,

We had a great time at the iTunes Live Festival in London last week!  Here are some pictures that we would like to share with you.

Classic FM (Classical music radio in UK) interviewed us at Koko in London before the show (from left: Lucia, Angella and Maria):

We loved being part of the iTunes Live Festival!!  We were the only classical group chosen to perform at the festival!

Maria, Angella and Lucia at Koko.  Koko is a converted theater and a great fun venue with a vibe similar to Irving Plaza in NYC:

Juno (an electronic music artist from Berlin. We invited him to perform with us on a few tracks) and Lucia with the iTunes crew.  They were super nice even when we were a bit panicky as we only had 45min. for soundcheck.  Thanks, guys!

Angella, Lucia, Michael Nyman and Maria at the Barbican Hall:

Pat Metheny invited us to his performance with the Gary Burton Quartet, so we went with Michael Nyman.  The concert was incredibly inspiring!  Pat’s guitar playing is just phenomenal, and we felt very lucky that we happened to be in London and got to see him play.   We are also grateful that Pat wrote a piece for us, which we will play the “world premier” of in Mexico next week.

Michael Nyman with Lucia and Angella.  Incredibly enough, Michael actually sat in for Lucia during our performance at the iTunes Festival, and Angella and I played the music written by Michael.  What an honor!  We still can’t believe he played with us.

Juno, Angella and Lucia in the backstage area.  We all were a little bit nervous (in contrary to how relaxed we look in the picture), since this was the live recording that would be made available on iTunes.

That’s all for now.  We are leaving for Mexico soon to perform a few shows next week.   Have a great week!

Maria Ahn

Photos from the recording session in Prague

Hi everyone, this is Maria from the Ahn Trio.  We are in London now and preparing for the iTunes Festival on Tuesday, July 29th!  (Click here for more info.)  If you are in the area, please stop by to see us!

Well, it took us 59 bars of chocolate tatranky, 25 bars of hazelnut tatranky, 38 cans of iced coffee, countless slices of pizza and 7 fidorkas (wafers) to record the Tata-Ahn album, and we finished it in 3.5 days!  Here are some photos from the recording session (note the Czech film crew taping us):

Day 3 of the recording session

Ahn Trio's debut as backup vocals for Tata Bojs

Lucia & Tata Bojs reviewing a newly recorded track

Angella

Maria

Lucia

Long hours of listening and reviewing recorded tracks

… and we finally got a few hours to stroll through the beautiful ”old town” of Prague, and grabbed lots of our favorite Czech food!  (More on that in my next post.)

Lastly, our Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac CD has been released in the Czech Republic.  You can read the local coverage here. (if you can read Czech!)

That’s all for now.  Have a great week!

 

Ahn Trio to perform at iTunes Festival in London

Great news! The Ahn Trio will be performing at the iTunes Festival in London on Tuesday, July 29th, opening for Hayley Westerna. The Ahns will perform a 45-minute set, which will be made available as a 5-track EP on iTunes.

iTunes Festival: Live from London ’08
July, 29 2008 at Koko - - Free Concert!
1A Camden High Street, London, London and South East NW1 7JE

RSVP here or visit iTunes Festival website to win tickets to see the Ahn Trio at Koko in Camden!!

Lullaby makes #8 on the Billboard Charts

First, the great news — the Ahn Trio’s new album, Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac, made #8 on the Billboard Charts!  The Ahns are ecstatic about the news and would like to THANK YOU for all your support.  For those of you who are interested, the album is still available on Amazon, iTunes, and most specialty record stores.  Ahn Trio’s new album is also reviewed on the new official blog of Sony BMG Masterworks. Please visit the Masterworks blog here.

 

Here are a couple more updates this week:

 

XM Radio: The Ahn Trio’s interview and performance for Fine Tuning (CH 76) will be aired on Wednesday, July 9 with two encores on Friday, July 11 and Sunday, July 13.  Click here for the schedule and be sure to tune in!

 

Echoes: The Trio’s interview and performance on Living Room Concert with John Diliberto, which was originally aired on May 26, will be re-aired on Friday, July 11 and again on Thursday, July 31.  Go to Echoes.org for more information. You can also listen to the stream of the broadcast on Ahn Trio’s MySpace page.

 

Friday 07/11
AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AHN TRIO
Classical darlings head for the serene side
The Ahn Trio are the only musicians selected in People Magazine’s 50 most beautiful people list who have ever been played on Echoes. But in between photo shoots, the Ahn Trio have been creating modern chamber music that draws from contemporary classical composers like Kenji Bunch to canny covers of songs by Astor Piazzolla, David Bowie and Michael Nyman. We talk to this trio of Seoul sisters about their impeccable music and the dreamy atmospheres on their latest CD, Lullaby for My Favorite Insomniac. 

Ahoj from Prague!!

Hi everyone, this is Maria from the Ahn Trio.  We are in Prague this week and the next for the rehearsals & recording session with Tata Bojs, a popular alternative rock band in Czech Republic.  We are going to post photos from the rehearsals on our MySpace page as well, but here are some more from our first week in Prague:

Maria and Vlada of Tata Bojs, laughing at Mandosa’s jokes.

Mandosa, Marek (ex-tata member & composer for the Tata transcription) and Lucia.  Note the “I Love Ahn Trio” t-shirts!

Meal break at a typical “putyka” restaurant - a very basic pub, where we enjoyed traditional Czech dish such as pickled sausages, which none of our Czech friends ate!

Lucia and Angella trying to locate the garden pub for our post-rehearsal get together.

 
Beautiful view of Prague … it must be the most romantic city in the world! (No wonder the boys of Tata Bojs are from here.)

Enjoying beer at our favorite beer garden overlooking an incredible view of Prague, after a long, sweaty rehearsal. 

We will have more rehearsals & recording session to follow this coming week, so stay tuned for the next update.  Have a great week!

Ahn Trio at the XM Radio Taping

Here are a couple of photos of the Ahn Trio performing on the Bob Edwards Show at the XM Radio studio on May 22.  If you missed the show, you can listen to the Trio’s interview and performance by clicking here or via downloading the Bob Edwards Weekend podcast (6/20) on iTunes.  (The interview starts at around 23:00 into the broadcast.)  Enjoy!

Angella and Maria performing in the studio.

 
Lucia during a break at the taping.