Joo Yeon Sir (born June 29, 1990, in Seoul), is a South Korean-born British violinist and composer.
Joo Yeon Sir | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 29, 1990 Seoul, South Korea |
| Occupation | Violinist |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Classical |
| Instrument | Violin |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 서주연 |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Seo Ju-yeon |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sŏ Chuyŏn |
| Website | www |
Educated at the Purcell School and at the Royal College of Music, London where she studied with Dr. Felix Andrievsky as a scholar, Joo Yeon Sir has been a major prizewinner at national and international competitions in the UK and abroad and has performed as recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestras at various venues including the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, Liverpool Symphony Hall, London Arts Club, Fairfield Halls, the Foundling Museum, and St James's Palace in the presence of Prince Charles. She has appeared as soloist with the Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia, and Bournemouth Symphony orchestras as well as with her regular recital partners Irina Andrievsky (piano) and Laura Snowden (guitar). Her recordings have been regularly featured on the BBC, Classic FM, Scala, RTÉ, and France Musique radio stations.
Joo Yeon Sir has received recognition as a violinist. In 2006, at the age of sixteen, Sir became the Overall Grand Prix Laureate at Nedyalka Simeonova International Violin Competition in Haskovo, Bulgaria, where her gala performance was broadcast on Radio Bulgaria (BNR). Sir is also recipient of Royal Philharmonic Society's Emily Anderson Prize 2007,[1] MBF Music Education Award 2008, and the Second Prize at Windsor Festival International String Competition 2008, as the youngest finalist.[2] In 2014, Sir was awarded the Royal College of Music's President's Award and the prestigious The Arts Club Karl Jenkins Classical Music Award.[3]
As a composer, Joo Yeon Sir has won the First Prize and the title of BBC/The Guardian Young Composer of the Year 2005 at the age of fourteen for her composition Conflict in Time, which has been performed at Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall by Endymion and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Her projects have been performed at the "Birtwistle Games" Festival at the South Bank Centre and her work, "Cold Dark Matter - an exploded view" for orchestra, inspired by British sculptor Cornelia Parker, was premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre in February 2007. In 2018, she was commissioned to write a work for solo violin, My Dear Bessie, based on the love letters of Chris Barker and Bessie Moore during the Second World War. Sir has also collaborated with contemporary composers, notably Sir Karl Jenkins, who composed Chatterbox! and Lament for the Valley especially for her.
Discography
edit| Date | Album | Works | Label |
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| 2022 | Solitude | Henrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Passacaglia in G Minor
Niccolò Paganini, Caprice No. 10 in G Minor, Op. 1 Niccolò Paganini, Caprice No. 24 in a Minor, Op. 1 Fritz Kreisler, Recitativo and Scherzo-caprice, Op. 6 Joo Yeon Sir, My Dear Bessie Roxanna Panufnik, Hora Bessarabia Fazil Say, Cleopatra Laura Snowden, Through the Fog Eugène Ysaÿe, Sonata No. 6 in E Major, Op. 27, No. 6 |
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| 2018 | Chaconnes, Divertimento & Rhapsodies | Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Mendelssohn), Chaconne from Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor BMW 1004
Tomaso Antonio Vitali (arr. Charlier), Chaconne in G minor Igor Stravinsky, Divertimento, Suite from Le Baiser de la fée Béla Bartók, Rhapsody No. 1 BB 94 Pancho Vladigerov, Bulgarian Rhapsody 'Vardar' Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (arr. Heifetz), Concert-Rhapsodie Figaro on Rossini's 'Largo al factotum' from Il barbiere di Siviglia |
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| 2017 | Suites & Fantasies | Alfred Schnittke, Suite in Old Style
Manuel de Falla, Suite populaire espagnole Benjamin Britten, Suite Op. 6 Darius Milhaud, Cinéma-Fantasie after Le Boeuf sur le toit, Op. 58b Igor Frolov, Concert Fantasy on Themes from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Op. 19 |
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| 2016 | Cantata Memoria: For the Children | Karl Jenkins, Cantata Memoria: For the Children | Deutsche Grammophon |
References
edit- ^ "RPS Emily Anderson Prize: Recipients". Royal Philharmonic Society. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
- ^ Ltd, Supercool (16 May 2022). "Past WFISC Winners". Windsor Festival. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ "Joo Yeon Sir wins Karl Jenkins Award". www.rcm.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2022.
- ^ "Southbank Centre > Calendar > Purcell Symphony Orchestra". Archived from the original on 18 February 2008. Retrieved 14 February 2008.
- ^ Purcell Archived 2008-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Top Young Composers for BBC Proms". BBC. 28 June 2005. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
- ^ "RPS Young Artist Biography - royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk". Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ^ BNR Radio Bulgaria Music Archived 2008-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Official website
