Kyung-Wha Chung

Kyung-Wha Chung (Hangul: 정경화; Hanja: 鄭京和) is a South Korean violonist born the March 26th 1948 with Seoul.

Career

It starts to play of the violin at the seven years age. She studies with famous the Juilliard School, with the professor Ivan Galamian. It is in Europe, whereas it already began a career of concert performer, that it follows the teaching of Joseph Szigeti.

She worked with the majority of the full orchestras: the Philharmonic orchestra of Berlin, the Philharmonic of Vienna, the Symphony orchestra of London, the Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Symphony orchestra of Chicago and the Symphony orchestra of Boston. She thus worked with famous leaders, such as Georg Solti, André Previn, Simon Rattle, Claudio Abbado, Charles Dutoit and Riccardo Muti.

She also played in duet with the pianists Radu Lupu, Krystian Zimmermann, Peter Frankl, Stephen Kovacevich, and her young brother Myung-Whun Chung. She plays besides within the Chung Trio, with her brother with the piano and their older sister Myung-Wha Chung with the violoncello. Its repertory includes/understands the concertos of Beethoven and Tchaïkovski with Alban Berg, and it recorded several sonatas like those of Johannes Brahms, César Franck and Claude Debussy, Ottorino Respighi and Richard Strauss (with Krystian Zimmermann, a recording which received Gramophone Award of chamber music).

External bond

Kyung-Wha Chung on the site of EMI Classics

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