Joo Yeon Sir Explained

Joo Yeon Sir
Occupation:Violinist
Birth Date:29 June 1990
Birth Place:Seoul, South Korea
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Background:non_vocal_instrumentalist
Instrument:Violin
Genre:Classical
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Hangul:서주연
Mr:Sŏ Chuyŏn
Rr:Seo Ju-yeon
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Joo Yeon Sir (born June 29, 1990, in Seoul), is a South Korean-born British violinist and composer.

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 Snowdon (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

!Date!Album!Works!Label
2022SolitudeHenrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Passacaglia in G MinorNiccolò 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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2018Chaconnes, Divertimento & RhapsodiesJohann Sebastian Bach (arr. Mendelssohn), Chaconne from Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor BMW 1004Tomaso 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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2017Suites & FantasiesAlfred Schnittke, Suite in Old StyleManuel 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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2016Cantata Memoria: For the ChildrenKarl Jenkins, Cantata Memoria: For the ChildrenDeutsche Grammophon

Sources:[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: RPS Emily Anderson Prize: Recipients . . 24 October 2021.
  2. Web site: Ltd . Supercool . 2022-05-16 . Past WFISC Winners . 2022-05-16 . Windsor Festival . en.
  3. Web site: Joo Yeon Sir wins Karl Jenkins Award . 2022-05-16 . www.rcm.ac.uk . en.
  4. Web site: Southbank Centre > Calendar > Purcell Symphony Orchestra . 14 February 2008 . 18 February 2008 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080218191832/http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/calendar?action=production&production=18718&performance=18719 . dead .
  5. http://www.purcell-school.org/index.php?page=concerts&num=2 Purcell
  6. Web site: Top Young Composers for BBC Proms . . 24 October 2021 . 2005-06-28.
  7. Web site: RPS Young Artist Biography - royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk . 28 February 2022 . 14 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160314235234/http://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/?page=youngArtists%2Fbiogs%2Fyoungartists07%2Fsir.html . dead .
  8. http://www.bnr.bg/RadioBulgaria/Emission_English/Theme_Music/Material/Joo.htm BNR Radio Bulgaria Music