Name: Concerts at the Crane: Agnes Kim & Keiko Sekino ~ cello & piano
Start: 2025-10-19T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-19T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 40 Washington St, Quincy, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02169

Concerts at the Crane: Agnes Kim & Keiko Sekino ~ cello & piano

Richardson Building, 40 Washington Street, Quincy, MA, 02169
Please join us for an afternoon in the historic Richardson Building for a cello and piano performance.
Agnes Kim is a distinguished cellist known for her dynamic performances and wide-ranging musical engagements. Praised as a “hair-raising performer” by The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Kim is an avid chamber musician and the cellist of the highly respected Arneis Quartet. The quartet’s recordings, including Elena Ruehr’s String Quartet No. 8 “Insect Dances” (Avie Records, 2022) and John H. Wallace’s pale reflection… : Arneis Quartet and Friends (Centaur Records, 2016), have received critical acclaim.
In addition to her quartet work, Kim co-founded Echo Bridge Cello, a collective dedicated to providing cello concerts and educational resources to support young cellists and local communities. She was also a founding member of the award-winning Trio Eca and performed with Trio Sol, which was nationally broadcasted on MBC in South Korea.
As a soloist, Kim has appeared with the Hwaum Boston Chamber Orchestra and the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also performed with a diverse range of ensembles, including the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music, Boston Philharmonic, White Snake Projects, and Coro Allegro, and has served as principal cellist for both the Haffner Sinfonietta and Philharmonia Boston.
Kim has collaborated in concerts with members of the Emerson, Muir, Vermeer, and St. Lawrence String Quartets, and has worked closely with composers including Gabriela Lena Frank, Joan Tower, and Pulitzer Prize winner Susie Ibarra.
Kim earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University under the guidance of Leslie Parnas and holds degrees from the New England Conservatory and the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Yeesun Kim and Steven Kates. Kim currently serves on the faculty at Boston University and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI), and works as a cello instructor and chamber coach for the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. Learn more at https://www.agneskimcello.com/

Pianist Keiko Sekino has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, at such venues as Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Steinway Hall, Bennett-Gordon Hall at Ravinia Park, Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria, and Meguro Persimmon Hall, and at festivals including Ravinia, Norfolk, and Yellow Barn in the United States and Kuhmo, Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander, and Pontino in Europe.
A frequent chamber musician, Keiko Sekino has collaborated with violinists Ana Chumachenko and MinJung Kang, soprano Awet Andemicael, and with members of Boston Symphony Orchestra, Enso Quartet, and Daedalus Quartet. As a duo with Awet Andemicael, she participated in the Carnegie Hall Professional Workshop on German Lieder with baritone Thomas Quasthoff and was presented in a recital at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Recent projects include performances of Schubert Winterreise with bass-baritone Marc Callahan, interdisciplinary collaborations with Callahan and Japanese classical dance master Umekawa Ichinosuke, and a world premiere performance of the piano concerto Meloscuro (2018) by Matthew Ricketts. She has recorded for Delos label with cellist Emanuel Gruber and has an album of songs by Gerald Finzi forthcoming on Albany label with baritone Marc Callahan.
Keiko Sekino completed a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University and holds additional degrees from Yale University in economics and music. Among her teachers are Peter Frankl and Robert McDonald. She has also worked closely with Elisso Virsaladze, Claude Frank, Boris Berman, and Margo Garrett. Sekino currently serves as Associate Professor of Piano and Chair of Keyboard Studies at the East Carolina University School of Music and as Artistic Director of the East Carolina Piano Festival. In 2021, she was nominated and inducted to the Steinway Teacher Hall of Fame.

This program is made possible by the generous sponsorship of the Friends of the Thomas Crane Public Library.