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Chee-Yun Kim
ViolinChee-Yun has performed with many of the
world's foremost orchestras and conductors. Orchestral highlights include her
tours of the United States with the San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson
Thomas and Japan with the NHK Symphony, a concert with the Seoul Philharmonic
conducted by Myung-Whun Chung that was broadcast on national television, and a
benefit for UNESCO with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Avery Fisher Hall.
Chee-Yun has performed with such distinguished conductors as Michael Tilson
Thomas, Jaap van Zweden, Manfred Honeck, Hans Graf, James DePriest, Jesus
Lopez-Cobos, Krzysztof Penderecki, Neeme Järvi, Pinchas Zukerman, Giancarlo
Guerrero, José Luis Gomez, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, and Carlos Kalmar. She has
appeared with the Toronto, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Atlanta, and National symphony
orchestras, as well as with the Saint Paul and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestras.
Other orchestral engagements include performances with the Orquesta Sinfonia
Nacional and the Mobile and Pasadena Symphonies, in addition to appearances
with the National Philharmonic, Colorado and Pacific Symphonies, and the
Tucson, Detroit, and Pensacola symphony orchestras. A champion of contemporary
music, Chee-Yun has performed Christopher Theofanidis’ Violin Concerto
conducted by David Alan Miller as part of the Albany Symphony's American
Festival, in addition to performing Kevin Puts’ Violin Concerto with the Fort
Worth Symphony Orchestra.
As a recitalist, Chee-Yun has performed in
many major U.S. cities, including New York, Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles,
San Francisco, and Atlanta. Career highlights include appearances at the
Kennedy Center's "Salute to Slava" gala honoring Mstislav
Rostropovich and with the Mostly Mozart Festival on tour in Japan, as well as a
performance with Michael Tilson Thomas in the inaugural season of Carnegie
Hall's Zankel Hall and the U.S. premiere of Penderecki’s Sonata No. 2 with
pianist Barry Douglas. In 2016, Chee-Yun performed as a guest artist for the
Secretary General at the United Nations in celebration of Korea's National
Foundation Day and the 25th anniversary of South Korea joining the UN. Other
career highlights include recitals in St. Paul, Buffalo, Omaha, Scottsdale, and
Washington, D.C., duo recitals with cellist Alisa Weilerstein, a recital tour
with pianist Alessio Bax, and a performance at American Ballet Theatre's fall
gala. Firmly committed to chamber music, Chee-Yun has toured with Music from
Marlboro and appears frequently with Spoleto USA, a project she has been
associated with since its inception. Additional chamber music appearances
include performances at the Ravinia, Aspen, Bravo! Vail Valley, La Jolla,
Caramoor, Green Music, Santa Fe, Orcas Island, Hawaii Performing Arts, and
Bridgehampton festivals in the U.S.; the Great Mountains Music Festival in
South Korea; the Clandeboye Festival with Camerata Ireland in Northern Ireland;
the Opera Theatre and Music Festival in Lucca, Italy; the Colmar Festival in
France; the Beethoven and Penderecki festivals in Poland; and the Kirishima
Festival in Japan.
Chee-Yun has received exceptional acclaim
as a recording artist since the release of her debut album of virtuoso encore
pieces in 1993. Her recent recording of the Penderecki Violin Concerto No. 2 on
Naxos was acclaimed as "an engrossing, masterly performance" (The
Strad) and "a performance of staggering virtuosity and musicality"
(American Record Guide).
Her releases on the Denon label include
Mendelssohn's E-minor Violin Concerto, Vieuxtemps' Violin Concerto No. 5,
Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole and Saint-Saëns' Violin Concerto No. 3 with the
London Philharmonic under the direction of Maestro Lopez-Cobos, and violin
sonatas from Debussy, Fauré, Franck, Saint-Saëns, Szymanowski, Brahms and
Strauss. Two compilation discs, Vocalise d'amour and The Very Best of Chee-Yun,
feature highlights of Chee-Yun's earlier recordings. In 2007, Chee-Yun recorded
the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Camerata Ireland, pianist Barry Douglas, and
cellist Andrés Diaz for Satirino Records. In 2008, Decca/Korea released
Serenata Notturno, an album of light classics that went platinum within six
months of its release.
Chee-Yun has performed frequently on National Public Radio's Performance Today
and on WQXR and WNYC radio in New York City. She has been featured on KTV,a
children's program on the cable network CNBC, A Prairie Home Companion, Public
Radio International, and numerous syndicated and local radio programs across
the world. She has appeared on PBS as a special guest on Victor Borge's Then
and Now 3, in a live broadcast at Atlanta’s Spivey Hall concurrent with the
Olympic Games, and on ESPN performing the theme for the X Games. In 2009, she
also appeared in an episode of HBO's hit series Curb Your Enthusiasm. A short
documentary film about Chee-Yun, “Chee-Yun: Seasons on the Road,” premiered in
2017 and is available on YouTube.
Chee-Yun's first public performance at age
eight took place in her native Seoul after she won the Grand Prize of the
Korean Times Competition. At 13, she came to the United States and was invited
to perform Vieuxtemps’ Concerto No. 5 in a Young People's Concert with the New
York Philharmonic. Two years later, she appeared as soloist with the New York
String Orchestra under Alexander Schneider at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy
Center. In 1989, she won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and
a year later she became the recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career
Grant. In Korea, Chee-Yun studied with Nam Yun Kim. In the United States, she
has worked with Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, Daniel Phillips, and Felix Galimir
(chamber music) at The Juilliard School.
In addition to her active performance and
recording schedule, Chee-Yun is a dedicated and enthusiastic educator. She gives
master classes around the world and has held several teaching posts at notable
music schools and universities. Her past faculty positions have included
serving as the resident Starling Soloist and Adjunct Professor of Violin at the
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and as Visiting
Professor of Music (Violin) at the Indiana University School of Music. From
2007 to 2017, she served as Artist-in-Residence and Professor of Violin at
Southern Methodist University in Dallas.