{"id":10141,"date":"2011-03-17T09:47:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T16:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/pianist-alpin-hong-shares-his-talent-with-kent-students\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T16:55:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T23:55:28","slug":"pianist-alpin-hong-shares-his-talent-with-kent-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/pianist-alpin-hong-shares-his-talent-with-kent-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Pianist Alpin Hong shares his talent with Kent students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Pianist <a title=\"hong\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinhong.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Alpin Hong<\/a>, in Kent for a March 18 concert, also took time to stop by a few schools for educational outreach assemblies.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Hong presented his &#8220;From Movies to Games, Classically Trained&#8221; assembly March 16-18 at Mill Creek Middle School, Meridian Middle School, Meeker Middle School and Kent-Meridian High School.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Hong, a Michigan native, has earned a reputation as a modern day Pied Piper for his American tours and performances. His combination of humor, emotion and dazzling technique brings audiences of all ages to their feet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>He performs at 7:30 p.m. March 18 at the Kent-Meridian Performing Arts Center, 10020 SE 256th St., as part of the city of Kent Spotlight Series.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Hong&#8217;s extensive classical training (a master\u2019s degree from The Julliard School), matched with his background in skateboarding, snowboarding, martial arts and video games forms a creative force unmatched in its youthful vivacity and boundless energy, according to a city media release.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>He made his orchestral debut with the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Symphony at the age of 10. He later moved to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Tickets are $26 for adults, $24 for seniors ages 55 and older and $20 for youth ages 25 and younger.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For tickets, call 253-856-5051 or go to <a title=\"arts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.kent.wa.us\/arts\/\" target=\"_self\">www.kentarts.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pianist Alpin Hong, in Kent for a March 18 concert, also took time to stop by a few schools for educational outreach assemblies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":10142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10141"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}