Chee-Yun, who was born in the South Korean capital of Seoul, began the violin at the age of six. She was awarded the Grand Prize at the Korean Times Competition when she was eight, and thereafter gave frequent performan¬ces with all the leading Korean orchestras. She moved at the age of thirteen to the United States and was immediately invited to perform the Vieuxtemps Concerto No. 5 with the New York Philharmonic. She then entered the Juilliard School of Music, since when she has been taught by Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang and Felix Galimir (chamber music). In 1985 she appeared as so¬loist with the New York String Orchestra under Alexander Schneider at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. In 1988 she was awarded first prize in the concerto competition at Juilliard. As a recitalist, she made her New York debut in 1989. In 1990 she was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. In the summer of that year she took part in the Marlboro music festival, study¬ing chamber music performance under Rudolf Serkin and Alexander Schneider.
Chee Yun & Jesus Lopez Cobos
More recently Chee-Yun has appeared as a soloist with many leading orchestras including the Washington National Symphony Orchestra, the New York Chamber Orchestra, the Cincin¬nati Symphony Orchestra, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under such conductors as Mi¬chael Tilson-Thomas, Mstislav Rostropovich, Pinchas Zukerman and Yoel Levy. She has given recitals throughout the United States and has also toured the United Kingdom, Japan and Korea as a recitalist. Her performances have in¬variably met with an ecstatic reception from both audiences and sponsors, resulting in fre¬quent re-engagements. In the autumn of 1993 she was invited to appear as a soloist at a cere¬mony held at the White House, where she per¬formed before President and Mrs Clinton, lead¬ing members of the United States government and other notables. In June 1994 she was fortu¬nate enough to be invited by Isaac Stern to ap¬pear in the farewell concert to mark Rostropovich's departure from the Washington National Symphony Orchestra, and performed on this oc¬casion as a soloist together with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Isaac Stern and Yo-Yo Ma. Chee-Yun is very popular among the producers at Ameri¬can FM radio stations broadcasting classical music: she has appeared frequently on stations such as WQXR and WNCN and was also fea¬tured on "KTV", a children's program on the CNBC cable network. She is thus become in¬creasingly well-known throughout the United States.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in E Minor, Op.64
1. I Allegro molto appassionato 13:48
2. II Andante 8:45
3. Ill Allegretto non troppo—Allegro molto vivace 6:49
Henri Vieuxtemps
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.5 in A Minor. Op.37
4. Allegro non troppo 15:24
5. Adagio 4:10
6. Allegro con fuoco 1: 11
Mendelssohn: Allegro molto appassionato (excerpt)
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