Soyoung Yoon (Violin soloist)
The winner of the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition 2011,
Soyoung Yoon is recognized as one of the most outstanding young
violinists. Soyoung Yoon studied at the National University of the Arts with
Kim Nam-Yun in South Korea and with Zakhar Bron at the Musikhochschule Köln and
Zurich.
She started the competition circuit with an astonishing first prize at the
2002 Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition at the age of seventeen and
is a prize winner of the top four violin competitions in the world, the
International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2007, the Queen Elisabeth Competition
in 2009, the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 2010 and the
International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in 2011 where she got the 1st
prize.
Soyoung Yoon performs as a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra,
Belgian National Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, NDR North German
Radio Symphony Orchestra, Quebec Symphony Orchestra, Polish National Radio
Symphony Orchestra, National Radio Orchestra of Kiev, Euskadiko Bask National
Orchestra, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Zurich Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonie der
Nationen, Trondheim Soloists, Moscow Virtuosi, London Mozart Players, Vienna
Chamber Orchestra and Zurich Chamber Orchestra. She works with conductors such
as Maxim Vengerov, Krzysztof Urbanski, Krysztof Penderecki, Mario Venzago,
Gilbert Varga, Muhai Tang, Justus Frantz, Gabriel Chmura and Saulus
Sondetzki.
In recitals she was heard at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Musical
Olympus St. Petersburg, Tokyo Santori Hall, Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center,
Seoul Arts Center and the Moscow Rostropovich Festival.
Soyoung Yoon also currently serves as the First Concertmaster of Basel
Symphony Orchestra.
Soyoung Yoon plays a J. B. Guadagnini violin (ex-Bückeburg, 1773).
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