Tenor David Won and pianist Konstantinos Papadakis present a concert centered around the theme No One Is Alone. Wherever our life journey is now, our lives are interwoven and bound together. We can work with each other and handle anything that life throws at us. This concert will explore these ideas through the eyes and experiences of great composers, who expressed these themes in music. 

Tenor David Won is a popular recitalist and concert singer based in the Greater Boston area. He has performed around USA as well as the world, including Dominican Republic, Italy, Malta, Romania, South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine, etc.

He has collaborated with many performers like Maria Lyudko, sop, Dominika Zamara, sop, Jason Camilleri, trumpet, Milica Lawrence, piano, etc.

Over the years he has also collaborated with many living composers like Darya Afanasieva of Myrnohrad, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Sonja Beets of France, Bartolomeo Cosenza of Italy, Mark Hayes of Kansas City, MO, Konstancja Kochaniac of Poland, Carol Koffinke of Pembroke, MA, Dr. Hyun Kook of South Korea, Stefan Shema of France, Lina Tonia of Greece.

In 2013 he was a featured soloist in the Great Mass in C Minor by Mozart with Chorus pro Musica and the New England Philarmonic, under the direction of Dr. Betsy Burleigh. He was a featured soloist at the 9/11 memorial service in 2015 at the Massachusetts Statehouse. Since December of 2014 he has coached regularly with Timothy Steele and has performed around 180 full recitals.

Tenor David Won entered Seoul Theological Seminary to study Church Music in 1980, then transferred to Seattle Pacific University, where he received a BA in religion, 1983. In 1986 he received a Master of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary, and in 1993 a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. He has always been deeply involved in music, particularly choral music. He has sung with Soong Sil OB Chorus, Korea Broadcasting Station Chorus, Harvard Glee Club, Church of the Advent of Boston under the direction of Dr. Edith Ho (to whose musicianship he is deeply indebted), and Chorus pro Musica of Boston. With these groups he has sung as a chorister and as a soloist.

He would like to offer a special thanks to Mr. Young Jun Kim, his first voice teacher of more than 45 years ago. During a very difficult time in David's life he provided encouragement and was kind, generous, genius, and hilarious.

His first CD, “Only Love” featuring Pascal Szymczak’s works was released in December of 2017, and his second CD “Languages of Love” in February of 2018.

Born in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Konstantinos Papadakis has been described by the press as “one of the greatest hopes of music” as well as a “spontaneous, honest artist.” The Boston Globe wrote: “Papadakis gave a stunning performance displaying great variety of attack, poetic lyricism, and wrists of carbon steel.” He has performed in recitals and has collaborated with chamber ensembles and orchestras in the world’s major concert halls and famous artistic centers.

A versatile performer, he has recorded several works especially written for him by contemporary composers, many of which have been broadcast on radio and television. Equally at home performing Bach’s English Suites or Ligeti’s Etudes for Piano, he possesses an unusually broad repertoire, including some 70 concertos, over 300 works for solo piano, and numerous chamber works.

Commemorating the bicentennial year of Franz Liszt’s birth, in 2011 he embarked on an ambitious cycle of recitals of some of Liszt’s shorter and less known works. In the spring of 2011, he recorded a new and unique CD of 16 miniature Liszt masterpieces entitled “The Short Liszt.”

An alumnus of Boston University’s School for the Arts, he studied with Anthony di Bonaventura and received an Artist’s Diploma in Piano Performance. At his graduation in May of 2000, he was honored with the Esther & Albert Kahn Award and was invited to join Boston University’s piano faculty where he remained until 2019. From 2006 to May 2011 he was the “Samuel Barber Artist-in-Residence” at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

In addition to repeated solo appearances with Boston’s Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, he holds the prestigious Motoko and Gordon Deane Principal Chair as the Orchestra’s pianist. Currently he is on the piano faculty of the New England Conservatory’s Pre-College and Continuing Education Division. He also directs the Summer Piano Academy in Archanes, Greece.