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PROGRAM:

G. Faure: Sonata 1
E. Chausson: Poeme
S. Prokofiev: Sonata 2
H. Wieniawski: Theme Original Varié

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Seoul native Ji-Won Song, 17, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2007 and studies with renowned violinist Victor Danchenko. All students at Curtis receive merit-based full-tuition scholarships, and Ms. Song is the Horace W. Goldsmith Fellow.

Ms. Song performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra during its 2008-09 season as junior division winner of the Albert M. Greenfield Competition. She has also performed as a soloist with the Seoul and Kangnam philharmonic orchestras, Asheville Symphony Orchestra, and Cleveland Institute of Music at the Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts for the Conservatory Project. She performs regularly on the Curtis Student Recital Series and also performed in a master class with Christian Tetzlaff.

In 2010 Ms. Song won fourth prize in the senior division of the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists, held in Oslo, Norway. In 2009 she won first prize in the senior division of Summit Music Festival's Mary Smart Concerto Competition. She also received the silver medal at the 2008 Stulberg International String Competition and performed a solo recital at the Fontana Chamber Arts Summer Festival in Kalamazoo, Mich. As the youngest competitor in the twenty-fourth annual Kingsville International Competitions, she won second place in the junior bowed instrument concerto category. She won first place at the twenty-fifth annual Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity Cleveland alumnae chapter's competition.

She has attended ENCORE School for Strings for multiple years and performed Haydn's violin concerto in an anniversary concert with the ENCORE string orchestra.

Ms. Song began her musical studies at age five and was a student in the pre-college division of the Korean National University of the Arts, where she studied violin with Nam-Yun Kim and Bon-Jiu Koo. She was chosen to participate in the Kumho Prodigy Recital Series and received many awards in Korea, including the Hankook-Ilbo Concours, Eumak-Chunchun Music Competition, Korean Chamber Ensemble String Competition, and Kukmin-Ilbo/Hansei University Concours. After moving to the United States, Ms. Song studied violin with David Cerone. She served as concertmaster in the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra in 2006-07 and graduated from the Young Artist Youth Program of the Cleveland Institute of Music.