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Acclaimed cellist Bong-Ihn Koh ’08 headlined a benefit concert on Friday for North Korean refugees organized by a newly-recognized undergraduate group dedicated to human rights in the country...
...thought maybe you found out I use a fork to eat my yogurt” said Bong-Ihn Koh ’08, when asked about why he thinks he was chosen as one of the Fifteen Most Interesting Seniors. Well, yes, but that wasn’t the primary reason. At the unusually young age of 12, Koh, an extraordinarily gifted cellist, won the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, which he considers the musical world’s affirmation that he was ready to perform and influence people with his music. Koh took that charge seriously...
...Koh followed his performance with an encore, playing a solo that rendered the whole room silent. He played a piece that had an ethereal, eerie sound, accompanying his own cello solo by singing a vocal part. The moment emphasized the fact that Koh is not simply someone playing an instrument, but actually is the instrument himself...
Perhaps one of Koh’s most impressive attributes was his ability to blend cohesively with the orchestra. Koh presented an image to the audience of the cellist as part of a larger organism that is the HRO. As the strings played, he extended his upper body towards them as if trying to immerse his head in the music; as the horns played, he leaned back as if to absorb the sounds of the brass. Koh was clearly aware that the success of the orchestra depended on each of its parts working together—a trait that truly...
...Koh’s performance made Dvorak’s “Concerto”—and Friday’s concert—a hard act to follow. Through Koh and the rest of the orchestra, the audience traveled along a wide spectrum of emotion ranging from ecstasy to grief. It was an incredible journey for both the performers and the listeners. —Crimson reviewer Victoria D. Sung can be reached at vsung@fas.harvard.edu...