Joan Kwuon

Joan Kwuon (* in Los Angeles ) is an American violinist and music teacher.

Kwuon received piano lessons from the age of five and violin lessons from the age of six. She attended Crossroads School and studied at Indiana University with Miriam Fried , at the Juilliard School with Joel Smirnoff and at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Donald Weilerstein . She taught violin at the Juilliard School and from 2009 at the Cleveland Institute, of which she heads the violin department.

In 2000 she made her concert debut at the Tanglewood Music Festival at the invitation of André Previn , and in 2001 she had her first recital at Lincoln Center . On subsequent concert tours she has performed with orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , the London Symphony Orchestra , the NHK Symphony Orchestra , the Seattle Symphony , the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the International Sejong Soloists under the direction of conductors Charles Dutoit , Heinz Wallberg , Joann Falletta , Arild Remmeriet , Thierry Fischer , Günther Herbig , Patrick Gallois , Heiichiro Ohyama , Enrique Batiz , Theodore Kuchar , Christopher Seaman , Gürer Aykal and others. Her chamber music partners include Cho-Liang Lin , Jaime Laredo , Sharon Robinson , the Juilliard String Quartet , Bright Sheng , Heidi Grant Murphy , Cecile Licad , Vladimir Feltsman and Tony Bennett .

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• Cleveland Institute of Music - Joan Kwuon
• InstantEncore - Joan Kwuon
• Philadelphia Chamber Music Society - Joan Kwuon, violin
• Mary Baldwin University - International Music Institute Heifetz - Joan Kwuon
• Guitars International - Joan Kwuon, USA