La Lumiere’s Music Director Francis Yun performs nationally

Dr. Francis Yun, the Music Director and Music Teacher at La Lumiere, recently performed in multiple shows throughout the region. He was featured as a harpsichordist at the Toledo Museum of Art, where he performed with colleagues from Bowling Green State University. Dr. Yun also took the stage at Bowling Green State University as part of their faculty recital series. Most recently, Dr. Yun and other musicians performed John Cage’s “HPSCHD” at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Dr. Yun began playing the harpsichord while still a serious student of piano. He became enamored with the expressive capabilities of the harpsichord and became passionate about the music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As his skills developed, he started performing throughout the United States in both solo and chamber recitals and served as a continuo player for many orchestras, including The New York Strings Orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, and Juilliard415.

Dr. Yun is also a strong advocate for new music written for the harpsichord. He has commissioned several new works for the instrument and has also appeared as soloist with the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra where he premiered a new harpsichord concerto.

Beyond the concert halls and performances, Dr. Yun also hosts a podcast, “So Many Wrong Notes,” where he and his co-host, Jeannette Fang, discuss issues that face many emerging music professionals. The podcast can be found at somanywrongnotes.com.

On campus, the La Lu Jazz Band and Concert Choir, as well as solos by select members of the student body will be taking the stage in the Fine Arts Building for La Lumiere’s Spring Concert on May 4, 2020, at 7 p.m. (CST).

To view the show at Bowling Green State please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URFjV2NMJws&feature=youtu.be

For more information on his upcoming shows please visit https://www.nonopera.org/WP2/hpschd-50/