Yoon Kwon, violin
Yoon Kwon is currently the youngest member of the first violin section of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. At age 13 she was the youngest winner in the New Jersey Symphony Young Artists Audition, and at age 17 she won the Juilliard Concerto Competition, through which she made her New York debut at Avery Fisher Hall performing the Stravinsky Violin Concerto. She has performed at festivals in Switzerland, Italy, Finland, and, in the United States, at Aspen, Santa Fe, Marlboro, and La Jolla. She has appeared with such orchestras as the Cologne and Warsaw philharmonics and the California, Cincinnati, Colorado, El Paso, Houston, Honolulu, New Jersey, New Mexico, St. Louis, Wichita, and Vancouver symphonies. An enthusiast of contemporary music, she is a member of the Matrix Music Collaborators, and is working on a cross-over alternative/new-age album. Her jazz ensemble, Emergence, has recorded an album on the Songlines label and plays regularly in New York City. She released her debut CD on the BMG/RCA Red Seal label in Korea in 1997, becoming the first Korean artist to record for the label. A member of Chamber Music Society Two, Ms. Kwon has taught at the Kuhmo Festival and at The Juilliard School. She began studying at the age of eight as a protege of the late Dorothy DeLay at The Juilliard School and she holds her bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as the prestigious artist diploma, from Juilliard.
Yoon Kwon
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