NEW! Faculty Recital
Rainer Crosett & Jee-Won Oh

Sunday July 19, 2025 — 7:00pm

Urness Recital Hall, St. Olaf College
1520 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN 55057
** FREE + OPEN TO THE PUBLIC **

Hear a selection of Rainer’s recent recordings/performances!

PROGRAM

L.V. Beethoven - 7 Variations on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen', WoO 46

Krzysztof Penderecki - Divertimento for Solo Cello (1994 version)

Dmitri Shostakovich - Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40

- INTERMISSION -

César Franck - Sonata in A Major, M8 (arr. Delsart) 

RAINER CROSETT

Hailed as “sensational” and for playing with “total commitment and conviction” (Seen & Heard International 2024), cellist Rainer Crosett is quickly building an international career as an artist of uncommon sensitivity and creativity. From his Wigmore Hall recital debut as the first American cellist ever to win the Pierre Fournier Award, to his concerto debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, he regularly appears as a soloist and chamber musician on many of the most renowned stages throughout Europe and North America. Rainer’s passion for the way music relates to other fields continues to yield boundary-breaking projects and programs. He is co-founder of a new interdisciplinary chamber music society in Berlin, Tonhain Kollektiv, and has performed widely at festivals including Yellow Barn, Ravinia, Grachtenfestival Amsterdam, Rheingau Musik Festival, Music@Menlo, Romsey Chamber Music Festival, and Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music. He has worked closely with leading composers of our time including Jörg Widmann and performed with ensembles such as the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. A graduate of Harvard College magna cum laude in Philosophy, he pursued graduate studies in music at New England Conservatory, the USC Thornton School of Music, and the Universität der Künste Berlin.

JEE-WON OH

Born in Seoul, Korea, pianist Jee-Won Oh has performed internationally as soloist and chamber musician in Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, the Far East, South America and throughout the United States. Her concert schedule has taken her to musical centers worldwide including solo and chamber music performances at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Salzburg Mozarteum, de Doelen in Rotterdam, Belgrade Philharmonic Hall, Sala Cecília Meireles in Rio de Janeiro and at Kumho Art Hall in Seoul.

In the United States, Jee-Won Oh has appeared on Lincoln Center’s Great Performer’s Series, Ravinia’s Rising Stars Series, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Merkin Hall, Barge Music, National Gallery of Art and Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She has performed in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, St. Paul and Washington, D.C. Oh has also appeared in numerous music festivals including the Ernen Musikdorf in Switzerland, San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, Park City International Music Festival, Sitka Music Festival and Mammoth Lakes Music Festival. Ms. Oh regularly collaborates with cellist Mark Kosower and has appeared in concert with him worldwide. Recent concert highlights include a tour of South Korea and Cambodia; performances in Switzerland, Erlangen, Nuremberg and Vienna; at the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach (FL), in Carmel Valley, CA and at the Kent/Blossom Music Festival.