Tchaikovsky
Following the success of her debut, Sibelius-Glazunov Violin Concertos achieving Gold in South Korea, Esther Yoo reveals her second album ‘Tchaikovsky’ which has one of the most famous classic repertoire, Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and short works of Tchaikovsky such as Pas de Deux, Danse Russe from Swan lake, Sérénade mélancolique, Valse-Scherzo and Souvenir d’un lieu cher.
Born in New Jersey, the U.S., she came to international attention as she won the First Prize in the Junior Section of the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition in 2006. She became the third prizewinner of the 10th International Sibelius Violin Competition in 2010 and the fourth in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2012. She has performed with renowned conductors such as Lorin Maazel and Vladimir Ashkenazy since she was a teenager
Esther Yoo made her BBC Proms debut at London’s Royal Albert Hall last year. She performed with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Alpesh Chauhan performing Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending as part of the BBC 10 Pieces project. Charlotte Gardner, Bachtrack said “innocence, beauty, pain and effortlessness melded in a way that will lodge for years in the memory, and the audience roared its approval.”
