Violinist Miyun Chung was born in Korea and began violin studies at the age of 11. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Han-Yang University in Seoul and Master’s degree from Manhattan School of Music. She is the recipient of number of awards and competition prizes including the Seoul Music Competition, Young Musicians Competition sponsored by Chon-Buk National University and the National Student Music Competition. Her extensive training has included violin and chamber music studies Joseph Kim, Glenn Dicterow, Lisa Kim, Laurie Carney, Lucie Robert and Yoko Takebe.
She has performed with numerous orchestras such as Kwang-Ju city orchestra, Han-Yang string orchestra, Ureuk symphony orchestra, Ensemble 212 as a soloist. As an orchestra player, she was concertmaster of Venusto Orchestra, Gwa-cheon City Youth Orchestra, OSH Opera Orchestra, Ureuk Symphony Orchestra, MSM Philharmonia Orchestra as well as Ensemble 212. She had her debut recital at Carnegie’s Weill Hall as a winner of Artist International Competition in 2008 and Hope Church in New Jersey. In her native country, she was a winner of Kumho Young Artist competition and had a recital at Kumho Art Hall also, had her solo recital at Sejoung Art Center’s Chamber Hall in South Korea.
Ms. Chung is a music director of the New Jersey Little Orchestra and currently performing as a soloist, chamber musician and an orchestra player as a member of Soloists Ensemble, Sonata Da Chiesa, Korean Chamber Orchestra and OSH opera orchestra in the New York and New Jersey area.
She has been a core member of Ensemble 212 since 2006.
current as of February 2011 |
