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Nahre Sol
Personal information
Born1991
EducationJuilliard School, The Glenn Gould School
Occupation(s)Composer, pianist
Websitehttps://www.nahresol.com/
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2017–present
Subscribers429,000[1]
Total views20,084,951[1]
Associated acts

Nahre Sol (born 1991), born Alice Gi-Young Hwang, is an American composer, pianist, and YouTuber of Korean descent.

Early life and education

Alice Gi-Young Hwang attended the Orange County High School of the Arts and graduated from the Idyllwild Arts Academy in 2009, where she was class valedictorian and recipient of The Most Outstanding Arts Student award.[2] She received her Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from the Juilliard School in 2013, studying with Matti Raekallio, and her Artist Diploma from and participated in a fellowship at The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada in 2015, studying with John O'Connor. She also participated in master classes at the International Mendelssohn-Academy Leipzig,[3] at the International Holland Music Sessions as a scholarship recipient,[4] and was a 2013 recipient of a Fulbright France Harriet Hale Woolley Award in the Arts Grant, allowing her to study in Paris with Gabriel Tacchino and Narcis Bonet, pupils of Francis Poulenc and Nadia Boulanger. While at Juilliard, she co-founded the T.R.I.O. Project (Teaching and Responding Through Internet Outreach).[5] In Toronto, she was co-director of the chamber music group Happenstance.

Competitions and awards

She was Gold Medal Winner of the NFAA YoungARTS program, a semi-finalist of the Presidential Scholars in the Arts Program, recipient of the Sarra and Emmanuil Senderov Award at Arizona State University for the “Most outstanding performance of a piece by a Russian composer” at the 3rd Schimmel USASU International Piano Competition,[6] and won prizes at the “Tomorrow’s Stars” Competition held by the Orange County Performing Arts Center, the Spotlight Awards, the Idyllwild Arts Academy Concerto Competition, the Steinway Society of Redlands Piano Competition, the Young Artists Peninsula Music Festival, the Redlands Bowl Young Artists Auditions,[7] the MTAC State Concerto Competition, the 2008 Bronislaw Kaper Awards for Young Artists,[8] and the Young Pianist Category of Southwestern Youth Music Festival.[9] She also was a contestant in such competitions as the William Kapell International Piano Competition and the 2015 National Chopin Competition in Miami, Florida.[10]

Abandonment of traditional performing career

After graduating from the Glenn Gould School, she abandoned her traditional piano performance career, working for some time as a commercial photographer, before resuming her musical activities through a series of online videos under the title Practice Notes using the name Nahre Sol, a nickname her father used to call her.[11] She also released a set of recordings of the Chopin Scherzos which were recorded as an undergraduate at Juilliard through Musopen on a public domain license.[12] During this time she continued performing chamber music as Co-Artistic Director of the Toronto-based chamber collective Happenstance.[13]

Recognition as Nahre Sol

She is best-known as the co-host of the PBS Digital Studios show "Sound Field",[14] as well as her own YouTube channel,[15] with over 400,000 subscribers as of mid-2021.[16] She has also been a guest host of NPR's Performance Today,[17][18] created a video for Wired magazine,[19] appeared as a guest on the online channel Physics Girl,[20] and collaborated with other composers and musicians such as David Bruce, Andrew Huang, Adam Neely, Tantacrul, and Ben Levin.[21][22] She was nominated in the category Best YouTube Musician in the 12th Annual Shorty Awards in 2020.[23] The blog Pianote featured her YouTube channel as #1 on their list of top YouTube pianists.[24] She was a guest artist at the 2018 Costa Rica Piano Festival.[25]

As a composer, Nahre Sol has had works commissioned by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra[26] and her music was used in the film The Boss Baby: Family Business.[27] In 2021, she released a digital album called Alice in Wonderland.[28]

References

  1. ^ a b "About Nahre Sol". YouTube.
  2. ^ "Alice Wang - pianist". Heartists, Inc. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  3. ^ "Participants 2012". International Mendelssohn-Academy Leipzig. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  4. ^ "Alumni Updates". Impact @ Idyllwild Arts. June 28, 2012. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  5. ^ "Founders". The T.R.I.O. Project - Teaching and Responding Through Internet Outreach. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  6. ^ "3rd Bösendorfer and Schimmel USASU International Piano Competitions". School of Music, Arizona State University. January 12, 2009. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  7. ^ "Young Artists Competition Winners". Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  8. ^ "Polish Music Center Newsletter Vol. 14, no. 7". Polish Music Center, USC Thornton School of Music. July 2, 2008. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  9. ^ "Alice Hwang, pianist". Heartists, Inc. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  10. ^ "The Ninth National Chopin Piano Competition 2015" (PDF). Chopin Foundation of the United States. February 20, 2015. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  11. ^ "Practice Notes". Nahre Sol. Retrieved August 12, 2021 – via Facebook.
  12. ^ "Alice Hwang Music". Musopen. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  13. ^ "Happenstance presents PAPER". blogTO by Freshdaily Inc. December 11, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  14. ^ "Sound Field". Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  15. ^ "Accessible classics - Millennial classical pianist Nahre Sol is right at home in the livestreamed world". Winnipeg Free Press. May 26, 2021. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  16. ^ "Nahre Sol". Nahre Sol. Retrieved August 12, 2021 – via YouTube.
  17. ^ "Nahre Sol". YourClassical Radio. August 2, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  18. ^ "Nahre Sol's Musical Explorations". YourClassical Radio. August 5, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  19. ^ "16 Levels of Piano Composition: Easy to Complex". Wired, published by Conde Nast. July 1, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  20. ^ "Physics Girl - Experiments with $100,000+ Speakers - Full Cast and Crew". IMDB. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  21. ^ "5 Composers, 1 Theme". David Bruce. May 17, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2021 – via YouTube.
  22. ^ "Nahre Sol and I Wrote a Graphic Score". Ben Levin. August 27, 2019. Retrieved August 12, 2021 – via YouTube.
  23. ^ "From the 12th Annual Shorty Awards - Best YouTube Musician". Shorty Awards LLC. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  24. ^ "10 YouTube Piano Players to Inspire You". Musora Media, Inc. April 27, 2021. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  25. ^ "Costa Rica Piano Festival will be held from July 16th to 21st". American Expatriate Costa Rica. July 10, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  26. ^ "Nahre Sol - Pianist, Composer, Pioneer - & MCO". Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. May 27, 2021. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  27. ^ "The Boss Baby: Family Business - Full Cast & Crew". IMDB. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  28. ^ "Alice in Wonderland ~ Release by Nahre Sol". MusicBrainz. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
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