Yun-Jin Cho - Violin
Yun-Jin Cho, born in Seoul, Korea in 1983, began taking violin lessons at the age of 6. From 1998 until 2001 she studied with Professor Lee Mi-Kyung at the Music Conservatory of Munich. Since 2001 she has been taught by Professor Ulf Wallin at the Hans Eisler College for Music, where she began her postgraduate studies in performance in 2006.
From the age of 9 onwards, Yun-Jin Cho won numerous 1st and special mention prizes, including prizes from the Seoul Monthly Magazine Competition, the Seoul Sae Kye Ilbo Music Competition, the Seoul Junior Chamber Music Competition and the Rodolfo Lipizer Competition in Italy. Since the fall of 2006 she has been the recipient of the Ferenc-Friscay stipend with the German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin.
She performs as a soloist with various orchestras such as the New Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Seoul National Orchestra, the Seoul Art Orchestra, the Seoul Yewon Junior Orchestra, the New Brandenburg Philharmonic, the Brandenburg Symphonic and the Echo Ensemble for New Music (Berlin) conducted by Professor Konstantia Gourzi. Between 2000 and 2006 Yun-Jin Cho performed as chamber music partner with Alexander Baillie, Robert Cohen and Friedemann Weigle (Petersen Quartett). Cho plays as a soloist and chamber musician at the Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (Germany), the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, the Hadanger Music Festival in Norway, the Gotland Chamber Music Festival in Sweden and the Komische Oper Berlin. She has also been concertmaster and section leader in the Yewon Junior Orchestra in Korea as well as in the College Orchestra Hans Eisler Berlin conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Seiji Ozawa and Christian Thielemann.
Yun-Jin Cho has had master class instruction from Raphael Oleg, Pavel Vernikov, Igor Oistrakh, Ana Chumachenko, András Schiff and Gidon Kremer.