JINYOUNG YOON

Jinyoung Yoon was born in South Korea in 1998, October 18th. She started playing the violin at the age of 5 and attended Yewon Middle School of Music in Seoul.

While studying with Joseph Kim and Boksu Kim, Jinyoung won the grand prize in Music Education Newspaper Competition and first prize in Baroque Competition in Korea. In 2010, she was selected and presented in Kumho Prodigy recital series.

Jin Young has performed with Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung.

In 2012, she was accepted to Juilliard Pre-College program, and studied with Hyo Kang. She won the Pre-college Assemble Competition, and performed as a soloist at the anuual Juilliard orchestra concert.

She has attended to Yellow barn Music Festival, Great Mountains International Music Festival, Sejong International Festival, Heifetz International Music institute for Ashkenasi/Kirshbaum program, and violin Masterclasses at Kronberg Academy.

She’s been invited to some of the great violin competitions such as Menuhin competition, Montreal Competition.

She has awarded a certificate as one of 3 finalists at the Greenfield concerto competition for Philadelphia Orchestra in 2020, where the final had to be canceled due to covid situation. She will continue to try for many upcoming competitions in the future.

She had masterclasses with Donald Weilerstein, Augustin Hadelich, and Benjamin Schmid.

She has entered the Curtis Institute of Music at the year of 2016, and studied with Aaron Rosand. She’s now studying with Midori Goto at Curtis.

PROGRAMME

FIRST ROUND

SESSION 1

J.S. BACH: Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003
E. YSAŸE: Sonata No. 3, Op. 27

SESSION 2

F. KREISLER: Caprice Viennois, Op. 2
L. VAN BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23
J. HUBAY: Carmen Fantasie

SEMI-FINALS

L. JANÁČEK: Sonata
KOH CHENG JIN: Before Daybreak
J. BRAHMS: Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108

FINALS

W.A. MOZART: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478

GRAND FINAL

L. VAN BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61