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2016-03-26 12:00:24
[…] for her children to further their musical careers, and she decided to move to America. All of Chung’s siblings played classical instruments and three of them would become professional musicians. Her younger brother, Myung-whun Chung is a conductor and a pianist, and her older sister, Myung-wha Chung is a cellist and teacher at the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul. The three of them have subsequently performed professionally in their later careers as the Chung Trio. At age thirteen, she arrived in the United States. She followed her older flautist sister Myung-Soh Chung in attending the Juilliard School in New York, where she studied with Ivan Galamian. In 1967, Chung and Pinchas Zukerman were the joint winners of the Edgar Leventritt Competition, the first time for such an outcome in the history of the competition. This prize led to several engagements in North America, such as with the Chicago […]
2016-03-19 12:00:32
[…] Angeles between 1965-8. She made her U.S. concert debut in San Francisco in 1969, and her European debut at Spoleto, Italy, in 1969. In that same year, she also had the honor of performing at the White House. In 1971, she won the Geneva International Music Competition (cello division). Besides her international concert career as a soloist, playing with the world’s leading conductors and orchestras, she also plays chamber music partnering her siblings as the Chung Trio. Her cello is the 1731 “Braga” Stradivarius. She is professor of cello at Mannes College of Music in New York, and head of the cello faculty at the Korea National University of Arts, the School of Music in Seoul. 2 Premieres In 1799 Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Creation was premiered in Vienna. In 1859 Charles Gounod’s opera Faust was premiered in Paris. In 1892 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted the premiere of his Nutcracker […]
2013-05-09 20:26:06
Going to the Kyung-Wha Chung Concert
Before heading to the Kyung-Wha Chung concert, I tried an experiment where I painted without lines. I’ve heard that traditional plein air watercolor doesn’t have pencil lines, but the experience was difficult enough that I couldn’t imagine anyone who would want to work that way. I need my lines!! For those of you who don’t know who Kyung-Wha Chung is, she’s one of Korea’s most famous violinists. I’d heard of her and her other child prodigy musical siblings at a young age. Together with her cellist sister and pianist brother, they were known as the Chung Trio. I occasionally listened to her old recordings on Youtube, and the enthusiasm with which she played always caught me. I believe she now works as a faculty member at her alma mater Juilliard. My old violin teacher remembered her. “Kyung-Wha Chung? Just as good as any male violinist!” She’s quite old now, and […]
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