Chung Kyung-wha
Korean spelling | |
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Hangeul | 정경화 |
Hanja | 鄭 京 和 |
Revised Romanization |
Jeong Gyeong-hwa |
McCune- Reischauer |
Chŏng Kyŏnghwa |
Chung Kyung-wha (born March 26, 1948 in Seoul , South Korea ) is a South Korean violinist .
Life
She comes from a family of musicians. She is the sister of the conductor and pianist Chung Myung-whun and the cellist Chung Myung-wha . Together they formed a trio. In Korea, Byeongso Ahn was her violin teacher. She left her homeland at the age of 12 to study with Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School of Music in New York . In 1967 she won first prize at the Leventritt International Competition together with Pinchas Zukerman . In the Federal Republic it was the discovery of the 1972/73 concert season. In January 1973 she was awarded the “Star of the Year” in Munich for the biggest musical event in 1972, an award that Maurizio Pollini had received the year before . At the end of 1973 she was a soloist in a television recording on Saarland Radio .
In 1982 she bought a house in London to live there. In 1984 she married a British businessman and became a British citizen. In 1988 she became an EMI artist. She later moved back to the United States and is now a US citizen. In 2007 she became a professor at the Juilliard School . In 2011 she received the Ho Am Prize and returned to South Korea. In May 2012 she became a music professor at Ewha Womans University .
Web links
- Biography at EMI ( Memento from June 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Kyung-Wha Chung: 60 legendary years as violinist
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tiny Kyung-Wha Chung Is No Dragon Lady, but When She Fiddles, Ears Burn . People dated November 8, 1982.
- ↑ Profile at the Music Faculty on the Juilliard School website (English).
- ↑ Violinist Chung leads the Samsung Ho-Am Prize list . The Korea Times, April 5, 2011.
- ↑ Violinist Chung starts 3rd stage of life 'with Seoul concert . The Korea Herald of November 21, 2011 (English).
- ↑ Biography of Chung Kyung-wha on opus3artists.com (English).
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SURNAME | Chung, Kyung-wha |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 정경화 (Korean, Hangeul); 鄭 京 和 (Korean, Hanja); Jeong, Gyeong-hwa (Revised Romanization); Chŏng, Kyŏnghwa (McCune-Reischauer) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean violinist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Seoul , South Korea |