Joan Kwuon
BIOGRAPHY
Violinist,
JOAN KWUON is praised by the New York Times for her “fiery,
intensely musical and impassioned playing.”
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Ms. Kwuon made her Tanglewood Music
Festival debut with the Brahms Violin Concerto at the invitation
of Sir André Previn. Following this debut, she was presented
in her New York debut in recital at Lincoln Center’s Alice
Tully Hall. Ms. Kwuon’s virtuosity and radiant stage presence
have been recognized by media ranging from The Today Show, CBS News
and Lifetime Television to National Public Radio.
Highlights
of Ms. Kwuon’s recent seasons include the United States tour
with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Celebrating Mozart’s
250th birthday, she performed Mozart Violin Concerti conducted by
Charles Dutoit and Matthias Bamert. Ms. Kwuon was the featured soloist
with the London Symphony Orchestra and André Previn performing
the Sibelius Concerto, and with Maestro Previn and the Prometheus
Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall performing Mozart Concerto No.
3. She also appeared with Orchestra Europa with conductor Nayden
Todorov, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Thierry Fischer,
the Bulgarian National Academic Orchestra, the Jyväskylä
Sinfonia of Finland with Patrick Gallois; the Moscow State Radio
Symphony with Sergei Kondrashev; the NHK Symphony Orchestra with
Heinz Wallberg; the Busan Philharmonic; Louisiana Philharmonic and
the International Sejong Soloists.
In
February 2008, Joan Kwuon appeared in Sonata Recital with pianist
André Previn at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. In
that same season, Joan Kwuon performed the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Mozart Concerto No. 1 with
the Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with
the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Kwuon also performed the Brahms
and Tchaikovsky Concerti with the State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico
and Music Director Enrique Batiz on their American tour in Sping
2008.
Highlights of Ms. Kwuon’s 2008-09 season include a re-engagement
with the State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico playing the Saint Saëns
Concerto No. 3 in Mexico. She opens the Mixon Hall Masters Series
at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Ravinia Festival Rising
Stars Series, the College of Wooster Series and makes her San Francisco
recital debut on the prestigious San Francisco Performances Series.
Ms. Kwuon plays the Beethoven Concerto at the Opening Gala of the
Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra with conductor Heiichiro Ohyama,
the Mozart 3rd Concerto with the Cleveland Institute of Music Chamber
Orchestra with Carl Topilow and the Sibelius Concerto with the UANL
Symphony Orchestra in Monterrey, Mexico with Maestro Felix Carrasco-Cordova.
This
summer she will make her Chautauqua Festival debut appearing with
conductor Gunther Herbig. In addition, she will embark on a recital
tour presenting the Sonatas and Partitas of Bach. Her new CD of
the Previn and Strauss Violin Sonatas, Mozart’s Adagio and
Rondo, and Tchaikovsky’s Mélodie will soon be released.
As a recitalist, Joan Kwuon she made her Metropolitan Museum debut
in 2006 and has been presented by venues including University of
Illinois’ Krannert Center, Universities of Georgia, Rockefeller,
Iowa, George Mason, Wooster College and the St. Petersburg Conservatory
in Russia. She has appeared in Boston on WGBH, on “Around
New York” on WNYC, and is a frequest guest on “Live
from WFMT” in Chicago. Ms. Kwuon has been engaged as guest
artist at numerous international music festivals including Great
Mountains Music Festival in Korea, Cité de la Musique and
Consonance in France, the Summer Festival in Prague, the Santa Fe
Chamber Music Festival and La Jolla’s Summerfest. She has
enjoyed collaborations with Cho-Liang Lin, Jaime Laredo, Sharon
Robinson, the Juilliard String Quartet, Bright Sheng, Heidi Grant
Murphy, Vladimir Feltsman, and Tony Bennett.
Ms.
Kwuon received advanced degrees from Indiana University, The Juilliard
School and the Cleveland Institute of Music. She currently teaches
at The Juilliard School, The Bowdoin International Music Festival,
and has recently joined the faculty of The Cleveland Institute of
Music.
Joan
Kwuon is grateful to Elliott and Mona Golub for the generous loan
of the 1734 ‘Spagnoletti’ Guarneri del Gesù.
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