site.btaViolinist Soyong Yoon to Perform in Sofia on October 24

Violinist Soyoung Yoon will perform at Sofia's Bulgaria Hall on October 24, Sofia Philharmonic announced on Monday. She will perform Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 by Sergey Prokofiev under the baton of Yi-Chen Lin. The programme also includes Symphonic Dances by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Symphony No. 31 by Mozart.

The influential Gramophone music magazine labelled her performances “meticulous… highly disciplined”, while according to The Guardian’s critics “her technical perfection … is always placed at the service of the music”. Soyoung Yoon plays a violin made by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini in Turin in 1773.

She was born in Seoul, South Korea, on October 28, 1984. Prize winner of major competitions including the Yehudi Menuhin (1st prize), Henryk Wieniawski (1st prize), and Indianapolis (silver medallist) violin competitions, Soyoung has earned the respect of her peers as a violinist and chamber musician of the highest calibre. Soyoung is increasingly in demand on the international stage, having performed as soloist with a number of leading orchestras to date, including the Czech National Symphony, Prague Philharmonia, Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Geneva Chamber Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony, Bern Symphony, Trondheim Symphony, Trondheim Soloists, and Zurich Chamber Orchestra. Her growing list of collaborators includes Krzyszstof Penderecki, Ivor Bolton, Krzysztof Urbanski, Muhai Tang, Maxim Vengerov, Eiji Oue, and Michal Nesterowicz.

Based between Barcelona and Seoul, Soyoung Yoon studied at the National University of the Arts in South Korea, with Zakhar Bron at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, and at the Zurich University of the Arts.