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Jul 9, 2024 | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Ben Kim
The annual Ravinia Festival, situated in Highland Park is North America’s oldest music festival that attracts thousands of concertgoers from all around the country. Its servings of music are diverse, from Bach and Mahler to Lynyrd Skynyrd and John Legend.
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May 9, 2024 | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Ben Kim
Classical music enthusiasts flocked to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston on Sunday for the final concert of the 50th annual Bach Week Festival. As the name suggests, Bach Week is a festival that celebrates the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his colleagues. The 2024 edition marked its final season. Prior to the concert, the festival’s longtime conductor, Richard Webster, gave a speech on the history of the festival and expressed his gratitude to the audience and organizers.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Ben Kim
Nichols Concert Hall bustled with concertgoers last Friday for the opening of the 51st and final season of Bach Week Festival, an annual Evanston celebration of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, his contemporaries and disciples. Globally acclaimed pianist and Juilliard School faculty member Sergei Babayan was invited to play the opening recital, and he chose a diverse program for the occasion, pulling the listeners gradually into Bach’s time.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Ben Kim
Chicago’s Symphony Center was bustling on a warm Sunday afternoon, as concertgoers flocked to the illustrious venue to hear celebrated pianist Yefim Bronfman — widely considered a leading interpreter of a vast repertoire — in recital. The program featured familiar names: Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
dailynorthwestern.com | John Byrne |Ben Kim
Saturdays are always a busy time for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. But, this past Saturday, the Symphony Center was especially packed for Seong-Jin Cho: winner of the prestigious Chopin Competition in 2015 and one of the world’s most in-demand pianists. The conductor, Gemma New, walked confidently onto the stage to begin the performance, and the orchestra began Aaron Jay Kernis’ “Musica Celestis.” Written exclusively for the strings, angels singing endless praises of God inspired the piece.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Ben Kim
Against the lustrous backdrop of Lake Michigan, pianist Yulianna Avdeeva took the Galvin Recital Hall audience on a journey of imagination and rumination through the music of Frédéric Chopin and Sergei Rachmaninoff. The winner of the prestigious 2010 International Chopin Competition, Avdeeva performed as part of Bienen School of Music’s Skyline Piano Artist Series.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
dailynorthwestern.com | Ben Kim
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Saturday concert, conducted by New York Philharmonic Music Director Jaap van Zweden, was a genre-transcending exploration through the full scope of human emotion. The concert opened with the Chicago premiere of “Lumina,” a 2020 work by Princeton University Ph.D. candidate Nina Shekhar.. It was a journey through tone, featuring chilling extended techniques on the strings, woodwinds mimicking ornaments in Hindustani music and clusters of dense harmonies.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
cointelegraph.com | Ben Kim
Blockchain technology offers new horizons in terms of user governance and digital interaction between parties. It evolves with each iteration, adding new use cases and better functionality along the way. However, the technical requirements of becoming a participant in any given blockchain network, along with the complex nature of the technology itself, often prevents newcomers from running a node and becoming a validator.
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May 29, 2023 | 
idsnews.com | Ben Kim
Indiana junior Drew Salyers competed at the 2023 NCAA Men’s Golf Championship this past weekend at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona. Salyers shot a three-round score of 226 (77–76–73; +16), landing him tied for 131st place overall as an individual. Indiana as a team was eliminated after the NCAA Auburn Regional, but Salyers qualified for the NCAA Championships by recording the top individual score of a non-advancing team.
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May 18, 2023 | 
idsnews.com | Ben Kim
Indiana men’s golf made its third straight NCAA Regional appearance, this season in Auburn, Alabama, surrounded by top talent from across the country. Four top-25 programs: No. 1 Vanderbilt University, No. 8 Auburn University, No. 14 University of Tennessee and No. 24 Colorado State University joined the Hoosiers in Alabama for the three-day tournament. The first round teed off Monday, May 15. Indiana ended the day in seventh place with a combined team score of 297 (+9).
