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Hyuk Joo Kwun Violin
The grand prix winner and recipient of the Denmark Composition Special Award and Young Popularity Award of the 2004 Carl Nielsen Violin Competition, violinist Hyuk-Joo Kwun has received international acclaims throughout his career. Having acquired both profound musicianship and brilliant technique, Kwun once again displayed his talent as he became the 6th prize-winner at the 2005 Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition.
Kwun started to play the violin at the age of 3, and at age 7, he enrolled at the Pre-School of Music of the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul under the tutelage of Nam-Yun Kim. In 1995, 9-year old Kwun went abroad to Russia to study with Eduard Grach, the pupil of the Great Russian School teachers Piotr Stolyarsky and Abram Yampolsky, at the Central Music School of Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
As the youngest violinist to win the second prize at the 3rd International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, Kwun became the beneficiary of scholarships and unlimited support from the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation (Former Chairman Dr. Seong-Yawang Park) at the age of 11. Kwun is also the winner of the Kloster-Schontal Competition in Germany (age 16), the recipient of the First Prize and the Best Performance Award of the "Mendelssohn-Yampolsky Rondo Capriccioso" at the Yampolsky Competition in Russia (age 17), and the Grand Prix winner of the 2004 Paganini Competition in Russia.
As he began to receive much recognition, Kwun has been invited to perform as a soloist for prestigious orchestras throughout Russia, Europe and Asia. He had collaborated with distinguished maestros such as Yoel Levi (Brussels Philharmonic), Shlomo Mintz (Haifa Symphony of Israel), Vladimir Fedoseyev (Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra), and Yuri Simonvov (Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra). His other major collaborations include the Kremlin Chamer Orchestra, Bilkent Symphony Orchestra of Turkey, the Murcia Symphony Orchestra in Spain, the Kiev Symphony Orchestra, the Moravian Philharmonic in the Czech Republic, the Nuremberg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra (Kazuhiro Koizumi) and as well as many eminent orchestras throughout Korea such as the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (Myung-Whun Chung), Euroasian Philharmonic Orchestra, Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra, Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra and the Korean Symphony Orchestra.
Having acquired a large range and variety of repertoires, internationally recognized Kwun performs often as a recitalist and a chamber musician in both his home town Korea, and on international stages. He was invited to perform at the Yalta International Festival in Ukraine, hosted by the Russian Council where he performed alongside with many great Russian musicians as well as Tchaikovsky Competition winners such as pianists Nikolai Petrov and Vadim Rudenko. Tikhon Khrennikov, one of the greatest Russian musician, has describe Kwun as "one of the few who can carry on the music in Russia to the next generation" and his 24 Paganini Caprices Recital held in Moscow was praised as "Flawless performance, which was yet seen since Leonid Kogan!"
In 2007, he was featured in the "Art Frontier Series” of Chongdong Theatre in Korea, where he performed 3 consecutive concerts with 3 different repertoires, and in 2010, he once again performed complete Paganini 24 Caprices in a recital at the Kumho Art Hall. Despite his busy schedule as a recitalist, Kwun shows his passion for chamber music as he performs frequently as part of Kumho Asiana Soloists; a group comprised of talented young Korean musicians with wide range of chamber music repertoires and also as leader of Kallaci String Quartet.
He studied with Professor Krzysztof Wegrzyn at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany, and in 2004, he was awarded as the 'Musician of the Year' from the Korea Music Association and in 2006, he received the 'Kumho Musician of the Year Award' from Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation In March 2012. Kwun was appointed as a professor at the Anyang University when he was 26 year-old and he served as a professor for 2 years. Kwun currently performs on Joannes Baptista Guadagnini, Parma, 1763 on extended loan from Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation.
Alexander Glazunov Raymonda, Op.57 (excerpt, performed on Violin and Piano)
Grand Adagio in D Major
Dmitry Shostakovich Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op.134
Andante
Allegretto
Largo
Intermission
Sergey Prokofiev Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in D Major, Op.94
Moderato
Scherzo. Presto
Andante
Allegro con brio
Efrem Zimbalist Concert Phantasy on Themes from Rimsky-Korsakov's ‘Le Coq d'Or' for Violin and Piano