The 9th Annual YPN Dinner

You are cordially invited to the 9th Annual YPN Dinner to be held on June 7th at the Princeton Club of New York City. This dinner is an opportunity for past, present, future YPN panelists, moderators, mentors, as well as members of our community who have expressed a desire to help our young Korean American population, to meet and network in an elegant dinner setting.

This year’s keynote speaker is Mr. Richard Park, the CEO of CityMD. Dr. Park has shaken up New York City’s health care industry with his CityMD walk-in clinics.

We look forward to seeing you at the Princeton Club on June 7th!

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Richard Park,
Founder & CEO of CityMD

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

Jazz Piano: Hyungjin Choi
A native South Korean, Hyungjin Choi is a New York-based jazz pianist and vocalist whose distinctive voice and sound based on a classical background have attracted attention in the New York jazz scene. After training as a classical pianist from her early age, Choi graduated from the prestigious Seoul Institute of the Arts in 2006 and moved to New York in 2008 to attend the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music where she earned a BFA degree in performing arts in 2010 with a jazz scholarship and the Noah Osnos scholarship. There, Choi received the finest jazz education from such jazz masters as Sam Yahel, Reggie Workman, Charles Tolliver, Jimmy Owens, Charlie Persip and Kevin Hays, and also became involved in many projects including that of the great Billy Harper. She has recorded and performed actively in many venues including Carnegie Hall(Weill Recital Hall), Le Poisson Rouge, Cornelia Street Cafe, Cutting Room, Rockwood Music Hall, Shape Shifter Lab, Drom and many others both as a sideman and a band leader. She worked as a music director at Onnuri In2 Church in Manhattan and currently a faculty of the Music School of Westchester. She has been coordinating a concert series Jazzical Sessions in Bronx. Choi’s debut album “Tales Of A Dreamer” was released for PND Records on March 24th, 2014.

Cello: Ben Larsen
Known for the energy he brings to the stage, cellist Benjamin Larsen has forged a reputation as an avid chamber musician in the New York City area. His knack for adventurous programming comes through in his work as Artistic Director of the series, Concerts on the Slope, and in the projects that he spearheads, working with some of today’s most notable composers, including Robert Sirota, Reena Esmail, Tania Leon, Ke-Chia Chen and many others. In 2016, Larsen launched a project with flutist Martha Cargo, “Pieces of Eight,” which is comprised of eight commissioned works by eight different composers for Flute-Cello duo. The project promotes the genre, and provides the opportunity to work closely with composers of various generational and cultural backgrounds. He has also performed alongside members of the Emerson, American, Chiara and Tokyo quartets, as well as Daniel Epstein, Vicky Chow, Ian Rosenbaum, Eriko Sato and Linda Chesis.

Mr. Larsen is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music, where he was the recipient of the Hans and Klara Bauer Scholarship, as well as the 2011 Pablo Casals Award. His past mentors have included Julia Lichten, David Finckel and Eric Dahlin, as well as lessons with Marta Istomin and Bonnie Hampton. He spent a year playing with the band, The Left Banke, and attended summer festivals including Pacific Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo, and Castleman’s Quartet Program. Along with his wife, pianist Hyungjin Choi, he actively performs in the Larsen-Choi Duo, which champions new music, original compositions and sonata literature. In addition to his busy performance schedule, he holds a private teaching studio in addition to faculty positions at Music School of Westchester, DZ Strad Violin Shop and Florentine Music School. He plays on a 19th century anonymous cello.

Speech: Christine Han

YPN member
Winner of 2018 Kyunguhn Scholarship Speech Contest Grand Award

The 9th YPN Annual Dinner Slide Show