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Jinjoo Cho Violin
Gold Medalist of the Ninth Quadrennial International Violin Competition of the Indianapolis, critically acclaimed violinist Jinjoo Cho has established herself as a leading young violinist of her generation noted for her vibrant musical personality, warm and engaging tone, and sensual phrasing. Praised by the Times Argus of Montreal as possessing “an undeniable charisma and depth...with an intense lyricism and heartfelt tenderness that sent shivers up the spine,” Jinjoo won both the First Grand Prize and Radio Canada's People's Choice Award in the 2006 Montreal International Musical Competition. Ever since, she has been performing worldwide, and has won numerous international awards including the First Prize and Orchestra Award at the Buenos Aires International Violin Competition in 2010, 2nd Laureate at the 2011 Isang Yun International Music Competition, and the First Grand Prize at the Alice Schoenfeld International String Competition.
Jinjoo's music career has taken her throughout North and South America, Asia, and Europe, performing as a soloist with such prestigious orchestras as The Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Argentina), Louisville Orchestra, Victoria Symphony, and Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Jinjoo has appeared in international venues and festivals including Carnegie Hall, Severance Hall, the Herkulessaal of Munich, the historic Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, Seoul Arts Center, Aspen Music Festival, Schwetzingen SWR Festipiele, Festival de Lanaudière, Cleveland Chamberfest, Festival Groba, the Seoul Spring Festival, Music@Menlo and Perlman Music Program. She has been privileged to collaborate with renowned artists Kent Nagano, Peter Oundjian, Michael Stern, James Gaffigan, Robert McDuffie, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Paul Neubauer, Roger Tapping and Anton Nel among others.
Jinjoo has served as an Artist in Residence at The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts and has toured extensively in Canada, Argentina and Korea. Most recently, she has formed Duo Istas with pianist Daniel H.S Kim. The duo was invited to take part in the Chamber Music Residency Program at The Banff Centre and regularly tours in North America with intensely creative programs that include works that are seldom played and/or newly composed repertoire. A passionate advocate for community outreach and education, Jinjoo has performed at over 100 venues, giving master classes, presenting showcases, and delivering lecture recitals. Some of her outreach locations have included hospice care facilities, schools for mentally handicapped children, inner city public schools and even an historically isolated island for leprosy patients. Her ties to the Cleveland community are especially apparent as she performs often for local organizations such as the Cleveland Women's Orchestra, the Beachwood Arts Council, the Cleveland Clinic, the Women's Committee at CIM, Arts Renaissance Tremont, the Tuesday Musical Association of Akron, CityMusic Cleveland, and more. Jinjoo and Daniel's Duo Istas performs more than 40 concerts a year in education venues alone.
Born in Seoul, Korea, Jinjoo moved to Cleveland, Ohio at the age of 14 to study at the Cleveland Institute of Music as a Young Artist Program student. Within a few years of arriving in the United States, she had won most of the local competitions for both high school and collegiate level students, including the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra's concerto competition and the Cleveland Institute of Music's collegiate level concerto competition. One of the jurors at the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra competition was the legendary oboist John Mac, who later became very closely tied to Jinjoo's musical development. In 2005, at age 16, she was awarded the gold medal at the Stulberg International String Competition, her first international competition and in the following year, Jinjoo became the first recipient of the Dorothy DeLay Award at the Aspen Music Festival. Additionally Jinjoo served as concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and later, the New York String Orchestra Seminar. The New York Times described her concertmaster solos as “rich and open...finely polished, (and) focused.”
Jinjoo's chamber music coaches have included Gilbert Kalish, Itzhak Perlman, Donald Weilerstein, Peter Salaff, David Finckel, Wu Han, Mark Steinberg, and the Cavani Quartet. She has also participated in masterclasses given by the Takács Quartet, Arnold Steinhardt, Peter Wiley, Samuel Rhodes and Zakhar Bron, with whom she worked at Kronberg Academy's Masterclasses Program. Jinjoo finished her Bachelor of Music degree both at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) with Joseph Silverstein, Pamela Frank, and Paul Kantor, who has been her mentor since 2001. Jinjoo received her Master of Music degree at CIM with Jaime Laredo where she is in the Professional Studies program.
Stella Yelin Cho Cello
Originally from South Korea and raised in Great Britain, Stella made her London solo debut at the Royal Albert Hall, London at the age of fifteen, playing in front of a sold out capacity audience and has also given recital programs in South Korea, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Croatia, U.S.A. and played on numerous occasions on national television and radio.
Furthermore, Stella has participated in master classes with numerous distinguished artists including Frans Helmerson, Joel Krosnick , Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Gary Hoffman and Timothy Eddy. Her major awards and achievements include winning Texaco Young Musician of Wales, recipient of the MBF Geoffrey Shaw Scholarship and the Hattori Award. Most recently, Stella has been selected as one of the Holland Music Sessions' “New Masters on Tour” and will give solo recitals across Europe, including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.
As an avid chamber musician, Stella has been in part of several chamber ensembles; as part of the Accord Quintet, Stella was awarded the Honorable Mention Prize in the finals of the 2012 Coleman National Chamber Music Competition. As a founding member of the Huntington Quartet, she won the prestigious 2014 NEC Honors Ensemble Competition and has been performing extensively in the New England area, including a successful debut at Jordan Hall, Boston. She has also performed in Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival, the Perlman Music Program Chamber Workshop and Rencontres Franco-Americaines Chamber Music Festival and has also collaborated eminent musicians such as Ralph Kirshbaum, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Joseph Kalichstein and Roger Tapping.
Stella earned her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees with honors at the prestigious Gregor Piatigorsky Studio, USC Thornton School of Music with Ralph Kirshbaum, and is currently continuing her graduate studies at the New England Conservatory with Laurence Lesser.
Tomer Gewirtzman Piano
Tomer Gewirtzman is the first-prize winner in the 64th Wideman International Piano Competition that took place in December 2014 in Shreveport, LA. Tomer is also the most recent winner of the America - Israel Cultural Foundation's Aviv Competition that took place in December 2013, where he won both the piano prize named after Rafi Guralnik and the audience prize named after Meira Gera. In June 2014, he won the third prize in the inaugural Midwest Piano Competition in Iowa. In June 2010, he won the "Clairmont" competition in Israel; both first prize, and a special prize for a commissioned piece for the competition. Later that year, Tomer won the first prize in the "Piano Forever" competition in Ashdod, which gave him, in addition to the financial award, a full scholarship to attend master classes in the USA, and an opportunity to perform as soloist with the Ashdod Symphony Orchestra. Tomer has won first prizes in the Chopin competition for young pianists in Tel-Aviv, the "Rig'ey See" piano competition in Ashdod, the "Pnina Zaltzman Piano Competition for Young Pianists" in Kfar-Sava, and the "Tel-Hai International Piano Masterclasses" concerto competition. In addition, Tomer won first prize in the Aspen Music Festival concerto competition right after winning second prize in the International Russian Music Piano Competition in San Jose, where he was the youngest competitor in his category. He has received top prizes in other international competitions such as the International Keyboard Institute Festival piano competition in New York, Arte Con Anima piano competition in Greece, and the International Baltic Piano Competition in Poland.
Since 2006, Tomer has received a biennial excellence scholarship from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and special scholarships by the Tzfunot Tarbut foundation, the Haifa Arts Foundation and the Buchmann –uHeyman foundation. Tomer has participated and performed in prestigious international festivals, such as the Aspen Music Festival and School, "PianoFest" in the Hamptons, "PianoTexas" in Fort Worth, Summit Music Festival in New York, International Academy of Music in Toscana, "Musica Mundi" chamber music festival in Belgium, "Tel – Hai" International Master Classes in Sde - Boker, Israel, and the International Keyboard Institute Festival in New York. He has performed in master classes with Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Menahem Pressler, Dmitri Bashkirov, Nikolai Petrov and Paul Badura Skoda and many other world-renowned pianists and pedagogues.
Tomer has performed in many recitals in Israel and abroad, some of which were broadcast on public radio. He made his London debut recital in London's "Steinway Hall," and his Paris debut recital in the Salle Cortot of the Ecole Normale. He was also invited to play in Nikolai Petrov's Kremlin Festival, where he played in various cities throughout Russia. His concerts as a soloist with orchestras in Israel include performances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, the New Haifa Symphony Orchestra, and the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music Symphony Orchestra. Performances in the U.S. include the Symphony Silicon Valley, and the Aspen Concert Orchestra. Tomer has also played a number of times under the baton of Zubin Mehta. Concerts next season will include performances with the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, the North-West Florida Symphony Orchestra and the South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. Tomer will play recitals in New York, Illinois, Maryland and Luisiana, as well as in Israel.
Tomer is currently working toward the Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School in New York, as a student of Maestro Sergei Babayan. He is a proud recipient of the prestigious Kovner Fellowship award. Prior to Juilliard, He studied for one year at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He completed the Bachelor of Music degree with honors under the guidance of Prof. Arie Vardi at the Buchman-Mehta Academy of music in Tel-Aviv. Tomer started his musical education at the age of 8, with Ms. Raaya Shpol at the Rubin Conservatory in Haifa, and continued his piano studies with Prof. Vadim Monastirski from the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem.
From 2008 to 2011, Tomer served in the Israeli Defense Forces, in the "Outstanding Musician" program, where he combined regular military service, with extensive music studies in the university.
Franz Schubert Piano Trio in B-flat Major, D.898
Allegro moderato
Andante un poco mosso
Scherzo. Allegro - Trio
Rondo. Allegro vivace
Ástor Piazzolla (arranged by José Bragato)
Invierno Porteño
La muerte del ángel
Oblivion
Intermission
Bedřich Smetana Piano Trio in g minor, Op.15
Moderato assai
Allegro, ma non agitato
Finale. Presto