Hyebin (Monica) Song to present paper at the Music By Women Festival

Hyebin (Monica) Song will present her paper "Influence, Individuality, and Stylistic Evolution in Collaborations of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn" at the Music by Women Festival to be held at Mississippi University for Women on March 2, 2023.

The paper, published by The Kapralova Society Journal in Toronto, Canada, focuses on how outside influences are as important as the mutual influence of Hensel and Mendelssohn in understanding Fanny Hensel’s stylistic development.

In her talk, Song will discuss three compositions from the early, middle, and late periods in which Hensel’s and Mendelssohn’s works show evidence of mutual influence. By comparing the style of their compositions, she will demonstrate the trajectory of their evolution.

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Hyebin Song is an award-winning pianist who has performed throughout the U.S. and abroad since the age of thirteen. She has played recitals at Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall) and at concert venues in Korea and Italy. She has also appeared as piano soloist with many orchestras, including several in St. Louis. Her 2009 performance in a Flood Relief Charity Concert was nationally broadcasted by the Korean Broadcast Station. She has been awarded top prizes at piano competitions in Padua (Italy), Berlin (Germany), and others in the U.S.

Ms. Song holds a doctorate degree from the Eastman School of Music. Besides her work at Duke as Chorale accompanist and departmental pianist, she works as a pianist at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and is on the piano faculty at the Raleigh Community Music School.