Excerpts from the local newspaper (NewtonTab) writeup of May 2 titled "Long Live Classical Music in Newton"

Trio of Forte New York concert at Newton Free Library, 4.22.2018

"The concert at its Druker Auditorium featured the Piano Trio of Forte NY - Vicky Lee, violin; Yumi Bae, cello; Hyojin Rhim, piano. It started with a late Intermezzo  for piano by Brahms. The piece guided us through the introspective and dreamy path at the end of which was waiting the exciting piano trio op. 70, No. 1 ("Ghost") by Beethoven. It is one of my favorite chamber pieces with its dramatic outer movements and the eerie yet ultimately moving resignation of the second movement. Whether the musicians devised the program with those peaceful strolls in mind that we have through the Newton Cemetery next to the library, I wouldn't know....
The latter half of the program paired two modern pieces: first, "Passacaglia" by the British composer William Walton for cello solo started with a somber melody, moved through the set of subtly intensifying variations before the accumulated tension dissolved with a sudden burst of virtuosic flourish, impeccably executed by Ms. Bae."

"...Vivacity of music and brilliance of performance were easily contagious. What was equally memorable for me was those fleeting moments of intimation communicated only to the live audience - that of bowing subtly held off during the solo piece, as it revealed to my rapt eyes the cellist's painstaking calibration, the desire for attaining perfection, and the relentless self-criticism going into music-making at such a high level. So much deeper goes our musical experience."

Oasis Café Music Night, KACF and the Forte NY Chamber Music present “Piano Trio of Forte New York” featuring Vicky HyunJin Lee (violin), Yu Mi Bae (cello) and  Hyojin Rhim (piano). The concert is on Sunday, April. 22, 2018, 5:30 p.m. at the ECC Main Chapel of KCB, 32 Harvard Street in Brookline. The program will include exciting pieces from the classical and the modern era such as the “Ghost” trio by Beethoven (op. 70 No. 1), Cafe Music by Schoenfield, solo pieces by Brahms and Walton.  ECC Announcement

The Korean American Cultural Foundation of Boston invites Yumi as the music director for its annual Gala concert. She will program the concert and perform as well with Clera Ryu on piano, Do Yeon Kim on gayageum, Chase Morrin on piano and Wonmi Jung as guest vocalist. 

A short teaser video for the concert introducing the performers:

Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque for Violoncello and Orchestra is the final work of composer Ernest Bloch’s “Jewish Cycle.” and among the most difficult pieces in the cello literature. When it was premiered in 1921, the critic wrote of the piece that Bloch had “reached the perfection of his music... The violoncello with its ample breadth of phrasing, now melodic and with moments of superb lyricism, now declamatory and with robustly dramatic lights and shades, lends itself to a reincarnation of Solomon and all his glory... The orchestral palpitates in all colors of the rainbow; from the vigorous and transparent orchestration there emerge waves of sound that seem to soar upward in stupendous vortices and fall back in a shower of myriads of iridescent drops.”

One of the highlights for the Korean Cultural Festival Boston is where two great solo instrumental pieces are performed side by side, one representing the Western classical music and the other, Korean gayageum performance. Yu Mi plays J. S. Bach's Prelude from his great cello solo suite No. 3 followed by Han TeRra, the gayageum virtuoso, who performs the Gayageum Sanjo Piece. After playing the solo pieces, they also collaborate on an exotic arrangement of the Sarabande from Bach's Suite No. 5 transcribed for cello and gayageum. Other highlights included the experimental group Paintbrush Orchestra (Yeonathan Shachar, conductor) performing original pieces against the backdrop of the video work by the famed avant-garde artist Nam June Paik. The concert closed with the exuberant version of Arirang, arranged and conducted by Eunhye Jung with participation of most of the performers for the evening.