String Poet Studio Series at LI Violin Shop

String Poet will feature the poetry of Barbara Crooker, along with the Kim-Stuckenbruck Duo, with Dale Stuckenbruck on violin and Haewon Kim on piano at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the Long Island Violin Shop.

Tickets are $5 advance/online, $6 at the door.

Barbara Crooker‘s books are Radiance, winner of the 2005 Word Press First Book Award and finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize; Line Dance (Word Press, 2008), winner of the 2009 Paterson Award for Excellence in Literature; and More (C”R Press, 2010).

Her poems appear in a variety of literary journals and many anthologies, including Good Poems for Hard Times (Garrison Keillor, editor)(Viking Penguin) and the Bedford Introduction to Literature.

Dale Stuckenbruck has performed as soloist/concertmaster with the Brooklyn Philharmonic, New York String Ensemble, Tchaikovsky Chamber Orchestra, Taipei City Symphony Orchestra, Music at St. Ignatius, Dance Theater of Harlem, Queens Symphony, Masterworks, and Long Island Philharmonic. He has recorded the violin concerto by Lou Pelosi on CRI, recorded with Erick Friedman on Kultur Video, for countless commercial labels, and 100 films. His recording of “Ancient Voices of Children” was nominated for a Grammy.

As mandolinist he has appeared at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, the Metropolitan Museum, and in a recording with the Charleston Symphony. He wrote and recorded the soundtrack for Shadows by Ed Lachman and Slater Bradley, which was recently shown at the Whitney Museum for five months. He has been a member of the music faculty at C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University since 1986. D.M.A. from Manhattan School of Music, 1984. He performs on a violin made by Charles Rufino since 1996.
 
Heawon Kim's studies began in her native Korea where she appeared at the age of 7 with the Korean Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic. Subsequently she won numerous competitions, appearing with these orchestras frequently on television and radio.

She earned her Master of Music under Robert Goldsand at the Manhattan School of Music. She has been a soloist with regional orchestras in the United States and has appeared as chamber musician with such groups as the Bronx Arts Ensemble, The Pierrot Consort, and the Colonial Symphony.

She has appeared with the KBS at the opening of the Sejong Arts Center in Korea. She is much in demand as a partner in recitals with internationally renowned artists. She is on the faculty of the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University as an instrumental coach and is very active in the Korean musical community, performing for fund-raising concerts for displaced persons from North Korea. Other solo appearances include the prestigious EWHA concerts in the United Sates at Lincoln Center and in Korea.