Jung Min Choi (Korea)

Year of birth: 1994

This year’s graduate of Curtis Institute of Music. Studied with Victor Danchenko, Joseph Silverstein and Yumi Scott. In 2015, awarded prize for the best performance of obligatory piece commissioned for Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand. Finalist of Stulberg International String Competition (2013), and Philadelphia Orchestra Albert M. Greenfield Student Competition (2010). In 2012 and 2015 gave recitals in Sarasota at the invitation from Cultural Events Committee, and in 2014 joined Curtis on Tour in New England. Has taken part in the International Holland Music Sessions, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Great Mountains Music Festival.

Jung Min Choi plays a Carlo Tononi instrument (c. 1709).

Program:

Stage 1

L. van Beethoven:Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano in E flat major, Op. 12

H. Wieniawski: Capriccio no. 7 La Cadenza, Op. 10

H. Wieniawski: Fantasy on Themes from Ch. Gounod’s Opera “Faust”, Op. 20

E. Ysaÿe: Sonata no. 3 in D minor, Op. 27 Ballade

K. Szymanowski: Myths Op. 30 – The Fountain of Arethusa

Stage 2

F. Kreisler: La Gitana

G. Fauré: Après un rêve

J. Brahms: Sonata for violin and piano in D minor, Op. 108

Stage 3

W. A. Mozart: Violin concerto in A major, KV 219, first movement

W. A. Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major, KV 364, first movement

J. S. Bach: Sarabanda from Partita No. 2 for violin solo in D minor BWV 1004

Stage 4

H. Wieniawski: Violin Concerto no. 2 in D minor, Op. 22

J. Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77

Pianist: Michał Francuz