Jarrod Harzler is the Executive Director of the Tuesday Musical Association. Violinist Jinjoo Cho is a two-time winner of the scholarship program and will perform in this year's Scholarship Recital. This annual recital features the top prizewinners, plus the Organ Scholarship prizewinner.
May 18, 2014, 2:00 PM
Fairlawn United Church of Christ
2095 W Market St
Akron, OH 44313
Jinjoo Cho
Jinjoo Cho, violin, is the First Grand Prize and People's Choice Award winner of the 2006 Montreal International Musical Competition, First Prize and Orchestra Award winner of the 2010 Buenos Aires International Violin Competition, and the gold medalist of the 2005 Stulberg International String Competition. She has appeared as soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra, the Montreal, Quebec, Winnipeg and Victoria Symphony Orchestras, the Seoul Philharmonic, Kalamazoo Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland, l’Orchestre de Chambre I Musici de Montreal, and Aspen Concert Orchestra collaborating with such renowned artists as Robert McDuffie, Michael Stern, Peter Oundjian, Kent Nagano, Steven Smith, Anton Nel, Muhai Tang and James Gaffigan.
She has served as an Artist-in-Residence at the Kentucky Center for Performing Arts, and regularly appears on recital series in Cleveland, Montreal, Seoul, Munich and New York. Recent performances include three Canadian recital tours with pianist Louise-Andrée Baril, and recitals in Germany, Korea, Canada and the U.S.
A dedicated orchestral and chamber musician, Jinjoo was a member of the Wo-Men String Quartet. The group coached with Peter Salaff and the Cavani quartet and participated in masterclasses with Donald Weilerstein, Arnold Steinhardt and the Pacifica and Takács String Quartets.
A native of Seoul, South Korea, Jinjoo is a graduate of Yewon Art School and the Korean National University of Arts, Pre-College. After her move to the United States in 2002, she graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music Young Artist Program and worked toward a Bachelor's Degree at the Curtis Institute of Music. Jinjoo continues her Bachelor's Degree studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Paul Kantor, who has been her teacher and mentor since 2001.