Internationally acclaimed violinist and Oberlin alumna Jennifer Koh and renowned pianist Reiko Uchida will present an Oberlin recital on Friday, December 1, at 8 p.m. in Finney Chapel. In addition, Koh will conduct a chamber music master class and a violin master class on Wednesday, November 29, at 4:30 p.m. and Thursday, November 30, at 5:30 p.m., respectively.

The free concert will include a program featuring Schubert’s Sonatina in D Major, D. 384, Poulenc’s Sonata for Violin and Piano (a la memoire de Federico Garcia Lorca), Selections from Signs, Games, and Messages by György Kurtág, Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 121 by Schumann, and the premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s String Poetic.

The two master classes are free and open to the public. The Wednesday chamber music class will be held in Kulas Recital Hall, and Thursday's violin class will be held in Warner Concert Hall.

The duo has performed together numerous times, with their exciting and energetic playing receiving glowing reviews. The Strad proclaims Jennifer Koh “…grabs the listener by the ears and refuses to let go,” while The New York Times declares “Ms. Uchida’s piano line was beautifully focused and gracefully turned.”

Violinist Jennifer Koh, a 1997 Oberlin graduate, won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Concert Artists Guild Competition, and the Avery Fisher Career Grant, all in the 1994 - 1995 season. She has been heard with leading orchestras and conductors around the world, including the Chicago Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony (under Yakov Kreizberg), the National Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the New World Symphony, and many other leading ensembles. A prolific recitalist, Koh appears frequently at major music centers and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Mostly Mozart, Marlboro, and Wolf Trap, and with Christoph Eschenbach at Ravinia and Schleswig-Holstein. She is heard annually at the Spoleto Festival in Italy, where she recorded Menotti's Violin Concerto live in concert with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, conducted by Richard Hickox. A committed educator, she has also won high praise for her innovative Music Messenger outreach program, which takes her to perform in classrooms throughout the country. An active recording artist, she has recorded to date a program of chaconnes by Bach, Barth, and Reger for Cedille Records, and recordings of the violin concertos of Menotti (for Chandos), Nielsen (for Kontrapunkt), and Klami (for BIS). Her latest recording on the Cedille label—featuring fantasies by Schubert, Schumann, Schoenberg, and Ornette Coleman—has garnered wide critical praise. Koh is grateful to her private sponsor for the generous loan of the 1727 Ex Grumiaux Ex General DuPont Stradivari she uses in performance.