{"id":112015,"date":"2026-01-09T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112015\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T17:05:09","slug":"tampa-pianist-eunmi-ko-comes-to-orlando-for-the-international-chamber-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/112015\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa pianist Eunmi Ko comes to Orlando for the International Chamber Music Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" data-attachment-id=\"407510\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/music\/tampa-pianist-eunmi-ko-comes-to-orlando-for-the-international-chamber-music-festival\/attachment\/e-ko-headshot-scaled-courtesy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/E.-Ko-Headshot-scaled-Courtesy.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1503785203&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"E.-Ko-Headshot-scaled Courtesy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Eunmi Ko&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/E.-Ko-Headshot-scaled-Courtesy.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/E.-Ko-Headshot-scaled-Courtesy.jpg?fit=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/E.-Ko-Headshot-scaled-Courtesy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-407510\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Eunmi Ko Credit: Courtesy<\/p>\n<p>If your taste in classical music skews more toward daring Orlando modernists like Answers and Alterity Chamber Orchestra than long-dead European masters, then make plans for Eunmi Ko at Timucua\u2019s International Chamber Music Festival. <\/p>\n<p>The Tampa pianist is a steadfast champion of new work and pursues classical music on the experimental fringe with a verve that merges performance with theory. Go to the symphony orchestra for tradition. But only artists like Ko can give you innovation. <\/p>\n<p>7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11, Timucua Arts Foundation, <a href=\"http:\/\/timucua.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">timucua.com<\/a>, $22.50-$30.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando\u2019s daily dose of what matters. 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You did it. And we\u2019re all the better for it.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/collections\/jan-7-13-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 7-13, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eunmi Ko Credit: Courtesy If your taste in classical music skews more toward daring Orlando modernists like Answers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[56976,56977,139,141,140,11395],"class_list":["post-112015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-eunmi-ko","tag-international-chamber-music-festival","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-timucua-arts-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}