Born to diplomat parents, June Han lived in Belgium, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, the Netherlands, and France prior to her arrival in the United States in 1994. She has been hailed as a “true and tasteful harpist . . . [with] exceptionally varied phrasing and a surprising yet innate sense of timing” by the New York Concert Review. An active soloist, orchestral player, and chamber musician, Han has collaborated with orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout the United States and Europe and has performed as a member of the Sequitur Ensemble, Ensemble 21, and the Manhattan Sinfonietta. An avid proponent of music by living and modern composers, June has given the world-premiere performances of numerous works and recorded for various labels.
At the Yale School of Music, she teaches a studio of graduate-level harp students and has been featured in performance on the Faculty Artist Series and the Yale in New York series and at the Yale Summer School of Music/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. She also serves on the faculties of Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival.
Dr Han holds a Premier Prix for harp and chamber music from Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, an MM degree and artist diploma from the Yale School of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Juilliard School.
She has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Speculum Musicae, Music from Japan, Orchestre de Paris, Kirov Opera Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, New York City Opera, and the Durham-Oshawa Symphony Orchestra.
September 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Poets of Patchin Place: Musical Settings of Village Poets