- [Narrator] In partnership with the Curtis Institute of Music, WHYY presents the following program.

- [Subin] Henriette Renie was a French harvest, composer, and educator.

She was a highly skilled performer, and her numerous transcriptions and compositions are treasured traditions for harp preparatory that are still performed and learned by harpists of today.

The piece we performed is her Trio for harp, violin, and cello, which is considered as one of the major chamber music works written for the harp.

The work is in four movements.

The first movement is bold and triumphant, while the second movement is a light and delicate strip sew.

Following this expressive and solemn third movement, the last movement is a reflection of the excerpts from each of the proceeding movements, and develops into a colorful and brilliant ending.

(soft music) (soft music) (soft music) (soft music) (soft music) (soft music) (soft music) My name is Subin Lee, and I'm a harp student at Curtis from Seoul, South Korea.

My mom tells me that I loved to sing and dance, starting from when I was really little.

And I first learned to read music playing the piano.

(soft music) ♪ Who knows how long I loved you ♪ ♪ Do you know I love you still ♪ When I was five or six, I went to a recording studio that needed a soundtrack of children laughing as a part of sound effects in their television program.

They only had me sing a part of a chorus, and starting then, I recorded a lot of songs for children's television shows and cartoons.

I first heard the harp when I went to a ballet performance.

I remember being amazed by the beautiful sound of the instrument during a cadenza.

Finding out that the sound came from an instrument called the harp, I was so determined to learn to play it.

(soft music) (soft music) (soft music) (soft music) (soft music) (soft music) I had this wonderful opportunity to perform the world premiere for a new work written by composer, Luke Blackburn.

He was commissioned by The Lyra Society to write a solo work for harp as the winner of the last Costello Competition.

This is a three movement work that each illustrates a time period in the existence of the blue butterflies.

(soft music) A species of butterflies native to South Florida, but currently at more risk of extinction than any other species in the United States.

The first movement describes the time before global warming, and climate change affected the butterflies.

(soft music) (soft music) (soft music) (soft music) The second movement describes the currently endangered butterflies with sounds and reflections that resemble a feeling of emptiness.

(soft music) (soft music) (soft music) (soft music) (soft music) The third movement sees hope in the returning of the butterflies, and gradually builds up from the emptiness to a bright melody that resembles colors of the first movement.

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