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"Bari Mort and Mi-Won Kim are so in-synch with each other, it sounds like one player who miraculously grew another set of hands."

Sonnet is a four-hand piano duo from the New York metropolitan area.  Originally from Korea and New York respectively, they have successfully merged their inherently different perspectives into a musical meeting of the minds. 
 
Both pianists, Mi-Won Kim and Bari Mort, received a Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance from the Juilliard School, although their paths did not cross until later.  Beginning their collaboration as two separate pianists hired for a "gig",  playing together for the first time was so natural that they felt compelled to continue.  They are committed to promoting music of contemporary composers along with showcasing traditional repertoire.

Sonnet recently returned from a tour in southern California and are finishing up the season with concerts in the northeast area.

SON NET in Korean means Four Hands:
son = hand
net = four.  


Bari Mort

Pianist Bari Mort, as winner of the Artists International Young Musicians Auditions, made her New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall. New York Times critic Bernard Holland described her as a pianist with “big, generous ideas ... pure phrasing and intense virtuosity”. Ms. Mort has performed many solo recitals and chamber music concerts in the United States. She was a member of the New York Chamber Ensemble for ten years and has appeared with the International String Quartet, Musica de Camera, Phoenix Chamber Players, Da Capo Chamber Players and the American Symphony, among others.

Her broadcast appearances include PBS, Vision Cable Television, WNYC and WQXR in New York City and NPR in San Francisco. She has toured the continental United Stated for Columbia Artists’ Community Concerts series. An avid performer of contemporary music, she has recorded as soloist on a contemporary American music CD for ERM Records and as a chamber musician on two releases for Albany Records. Ms. Mort was on the faculty of Bard College for nine years and is presently on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. 


Mi-Won Kim

Born in Seoul, Korea, Mi-Won Kim began piano lessons at the age of 6. At age 12, she moved with her family to Brussels and then London, where she continued her studies. At 17, she came to New York. She attended Manhattanville College, where she studied with Leon Kushner and Anthony La Magra, receiving her B-Mus, and then the Juilliard School for a Master’s degree in piano performance, studying with Josef Raieff.  Her other teachers include Isabelle Sant’Ambrogio and German Diez.

A long time resident of Westchester County, she has performed in the New York area as soloist, accompanist, harpsichordist, and is the co-director of music at the Reformed Church of the Tarrytowns. Her playing has been aired on WQXR and WNYC and she has performed at Grace Church, SUNY Purchase, New Rochelle Library, and Croton Library, and has performed with the Croton Chorale, Collegium Westchester, and the Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra. 

As well as teaching piano lessons privately, she has taught piano at the Bennett Conservatory of Music, Sacred Heart University, and is currently on the piano faculty at Westchester Community College.



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