Jeewon park biographies

By Milton Moore

Old Lyme — It's always a major artistic event when a music presenter stages a complete cycle of works by a single composer, a marquee moment usually found only in big cities.

This weekend's pair of concerts presented by Musical Masterworks in Old Lyme surveying all of Beethoven's works for cello and piano was not only a landmark achievement for the chamber music series, it had an extra celebratory buzz.

The performers celebrated a deep connection not only to the series, but to each other.

In his comments to the nearly full house at the Old Lyme Congregational Church, cellist Edward Arron referred repeatedly to pianist Jeewon Park as "my valentine," and the husband-and-wife duo displayed a deep musical connection that seemed especially profound in their communication through the often mercurial transitions of Beethoven's late sonatas.

The very staging of this ambitious cycle by Arron and Park was also a celebration for the series itself, billed as a special event