Chee-Yun - Excerpts from Sibelius Violin Concerto

Video clips from 2nd and 3rd movements.
Chee-Yun in rehearsal with the Symphony of Southeast Texas, Christopher Zimmerman, Conductor. Performance was on September 17, 2005.

Chee-Yun performs regularly with the world's foremost orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, and the Toronto, Houston, Seattle, Pittsburgh and National symphony orchestras. Additionally, she has appeared with the Atlanta Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke's (at Alice Tully Hall) and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with such distinguished conductors as Hans Graf, James DePriest, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Michael Tilson Thomas, Krzysztof Penderecki, Neeme Järvi, Pinchas Zukerman and Manfred Honeck. Internationally, Chee-Yun has toured with the Haifa Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Germany's Braunschweig Orchestra and the MDR Radio Leipzig and performed with the St. Petersburg Camerata, the Bamberg Philharmonic, the Bilbao Symphony, the London Festival Orchestra, the Nagoya Philharmonic, KBS Symphony Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic. Recent orchestral highlights include her tours of the United States with the San Francisco Symphony (Michaelchee-yun stairs Tilson Thomas conducting), and Japan with the NHK Symphony.

As a recitalist, Chee-Yun has performed in many major US cities including New York, Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Atlanta. Career highlights include appearances at the Kennedy Center's "Salute to Slava" gala honoring Mstislav Rostropovich, the Mostly Mozart Festival's tour to Japan, a performance with Michael Tilson Thomas in the inaugural season of Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall, and the US premiere of the Penderecki Sonata No. 2 with pianist Barry Douglas. Other recent highlights include tours of the US with the San Francisco Symphony, tours of Japan with the NHK Symphony and the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, and a performance at the American Ballet Theatre's fall gala. Firmly committed to chamber music, Chee-Yun has toured with "Music from Marlboro" and appears frequently with Spoleto USA, a project she has been associated with since its inception. Additional chamber music appearances include the Ravinia, Aspen, Bravo! Vail Valley, La Jolla, Caramoor, Green Music, Santa Fe and Bridgewater festivals in the US, the Great Mountains Music Festival in South Korea, the Clandeboye Festival with Camerata Ireland in Northern Ireland, the Opera Theatre and Music Festival in Lucca, Italy, the Colmar Festival in France, and the Beethoven and Penderecki festivals in Poland. Most recently, Chee-Yun performed Leon Kirchner's Piano Trio No. 2 at the Great Lakes Festival with pianist Jeremy Denk and cellist Andrés Diaz, deemed by the The Detroit Free Press, "a spectacularly confident and expressive performance of recording quality."

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Chee-Yun is unsurpassed in her ability to draw rich and nuanced tone color from a violin. We see this when she plays the Ruggieri and when she plays the Stratavarius. I agree with winrx to the extent that I sure would like to hear her play a Guarnerius. Why fight about it? She is a gorgeous woman who can bring gorgeous sounds out of any violin. An intelligent woman with warmth and humor as well as talent. A living treasure. Greg Gibbs or Portland

[violinista53]

Outstanding. She has a perfectly sweet sound.

A gentle critique: from about 1:31 on, why do we see plenty of stage floor, but have a partially or completely headless maestro?

[boobopbadoop]

georgeous another young player who continues to grow musically..

[winrx]

I think she's currently playing on a Ruggieri. Now with the powerhouse kind of sound she's producing currently with that instrument, imagine what an upgrade would do - you'd be able to hear her on 7th ave when she plays at Carnegie.

[kevme]

Why do You feel a Guarnerius is finer than her instrument and also why do you feel it is more suited to her?

[winrx]

I'm just wondering how she would sound with a finer instrument esp a Guarnerius, which is more suited to her..!

[GoldenBearGo]

very nice