Violin
Yoon Kwon plays with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and is the youngest first violinist for that orchestra in history.
As soloist, Ms. Kwon has appeared abroad with such orchestras as the Cologne Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic (its 100th season opening gala), Orquesta Sinfonica de Teatro Colon (Argentina), Euro-Asian Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, Istanbul State Symphony, and Mexico State Symphony Orchestra to name a few.
Her numerous U. S. appearances include performances with the symphonies of Cincinnati, Chicago, Colorado, Greenville, Houston, Honolulu, Phoenix, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, St. Louis and Wicheta, and others.
Among the conductors she has collaborated with are James Conlon, Lawrence Foster, Sergiu Commissona, Paavo Jarvi, Haermann Michael, Stetan Sandering, Alan Gilbert, Tandeuz Strugala, Gurer Aykal, David Lockington, Andre Raphael Smith, and Enrique Baltiz. Her recital credits are also numerous: Ravinia Rising Stars Series, St. Louis, Great Artists Series, La Jolla Discovery Series, and Aspen Winter Series.
During the 1998-2003 seasons, under the auspices of Columbia Artists Community Concerts, Yoon and her sister, pianist Min Kwon, undertook extensive tours of joint recitals and master classes across the U. S.
Yoon Kwon is also a frequent performer at summer festivals, including Marlboro, Aspen, Santa Fe, La Jolla, Tanglewood, Vancouver, Rome and Cassamagiore (Italy), Kuhmo (Finland), and Interlocken, Verbier (Switzerland), collaborating with such distinguished musicians as Andras Schiff, Pinchas Zukerman, Richard Salzman, Midori, Felix Galimir, Cho-Liang Lin, Robert McDuffie, Daniel Blumenthal, Carter Brey, and members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, and Emerson string quartets.
Yoon Kwon’s captivating and passionate performances have been heard by television and radio audiences worldwide. Ms. Kwon has been a feature performer on CBS TV’s New Years Eve Peace Concert hosted by Maya Angelou, and broadcast from New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. She has also been featured on NBC TV (USA), TV Stuttgart and WDR (Germany), KBS and SBS TV (Korea) and numerous FM stations across the US.