Presented with the cleveland Humanities Festival
8TH SEASON PREVIEW
Creatures of Emotion
Thursday, April 20, 6:00pm
Harkness Chapel at
Case Western Reserve University
11200 Bellflower Road
Cleveland, OH 44106
Supported by The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities
In this exciting sneak peek into ENCORE Chamber Music Institutes 8th season, Artistic Director Jinjoo Cho joins forces with pianist Hyunsoo Kim for an evening of Music & Ideas.
ENCORE’s Music & Ideas festival is a rapidly growing cultural phenomenon in Northeast Ohio, creating a space for larger vibrant conversations through the lens of chamber music. ENCORE aims to strengthen Cleveland’s thriving classical music scene by pairing TED talk style lectures and conversation with every concert - connecting other cultural aspects with music through a central theme, therefore drawing more attention from those who may not otherwise attend a chamber music concert.
Taken from author Dale Carnegie’s famous saying, the theme Creatures of Emotion is an artistic exploration of the brain and how humans experience and express emotion.
Ms. Cho’s pre-concert conversation will invite the audience to engage in a thought-provoking discussion about how music affects the brain and our emotions - not just playing music, but listening to, being surrounded by, and studying music. How exactly does music affect our wellness? During her discussion, Ms. Cho will reveal some of ENCORE's 2023 speakers who will guide our audience in answering this question.
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Additional Information
A charismatic soloist, dynamic chamber musician, dedicated teacher, artistic director, and published writer, South Korean violinist Jinjoo Cho is a classical virtuoso of the 21st Century.
Gold Medalist of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Concours musical international de Montréal, and Buenos Aires, Schoenfeld, Stulberg Competitions, Jinjoo has toured extensively on concert stages around the world since her solo debut with the Seoul Philharmonic at the age of 11. Today, she continues to perform with leading orchestras such as The Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Deutsche Radio Philharmonic, Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia de Madrid, and North Carolina, Phoenix, Charlotte Symphonies while collaborating with prominent conductors such as Kent Nagano, James Gaffigan, JoAnn Falletta, Michael Stern, Tito Munoz, Michael Francis, Moritz Gnann, Karina Canellakis, Shi-Yeon Sung, Pietari Inkinen, and Clemens Schuldt. Jinjoo’s solo recitals and chamber music appearances take place in distinguished venues and festivals including the Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Herkulessaal (Munich), La Seine Musicale (Paris), Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Banff Centre (Canada), Seoul Arts Center, Kumho Art Hall (Korea), Aspen Music Festival, Gilmore Festival, Music@Menlo, Perlman Music Program, La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest (USA), Aigues-Vives Music Festival (France), Kronberg Academy, and Schwetzingen Festspiele (Germany).
Jinjoo’s recordings La Capricieuse (2020, SONY Classical), The Indianapolis Commissions (2018, Azica), and Jinjoo Cho (2007, Analekta) have garnered critical acclaim worldwide and commercial success in her home country of Korea. In 2021, a new Saint-Saëns album with Ensemble Appassionato, conducted by her dear friend Mathieu Herzog, was released by Naïve Classical.
In addition to her concert career, Jinjoo is passionate about performing in non-traditional venues such as hospitals, schools, senior homes, youth programs, and cafes, and finds joy in sharing music with people who may not have experienced live classical music. Her other passion projects include writing editorials for newspapers, magazines, and webzines as well as collaborating with artists of diverse disciplines for creative exploration. She has collaborated intimately with composer Juri Seo (a new work Toy Store premieres in December 2022), contemporary dancers Mimi Jung and Jin-Yeob Cha, and with various other visual artists, creators, actors, singer songwriters, film directors, novelists, and poets. In 2021, Jinjoo formed Trio Seoul with pianist Kyu Yeon Kim and cellist Brannon Cho to commission and perform more works by rising Korean composers, and her first book Would I Shine Someday was published and listed as highlighted best seller on major book platforms.
Jinjoo is currently Assistant Professor of Violin at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. She previously served as faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Oberlin Conservatory, and has given masterclasses at eminent universities and conservatories including Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Rice University, Indiana University, and San Francisco Conservatory. Jinjoo’s students are regularly selected for prestigious programs and competitions such as the Verbier Festival Academy, International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, Kronberg Academy Masterclasses, New York String Orchestra Seminar, Fellowship Program at Aspen Music Festival and School, and the Indianapolis, Sendai, Klein, Fischoff and Stulberg Competitions. In 2015, Jinjoo founded the ENCORE Chamber Music Institute (501(c)(3) non-profit), a summer festival that offers young string players an experience of true immersion as chamber musicians.
Most recently, Jinjoo was invited to serve as jury member at major international competitions. She served on the jury panel of the 2022 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, preliminary screening committee of the 2018 and 2023 Concours musical international de Montréal, and is scheduled to serve on the jury panel of the 2024 Schoenfeld International String Competition. Jinjoo’s dedication to nurturing the next generation of young musicians stems directly from the influence of her teachers Paul Kantor and Jaime Laredo.
Pianist Hyunsoo Kim has performed extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, China and South Korea. A much sought-after collaborative artist, Mr. Kim has performed with eminent artists such as Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Jinjoo Cho, members of the Cavani Quartet, Miami Quartet, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Boston Symphony, among others.
Concerts have brought Mr. Kim to such venues as Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Merkin Hall in NYC, Chicago Cultural Center, Dallas City Performance Hall, Rolston Hall at Banff Centre, Shalin Liu Performance Center, Olin Hall at Bard College, Kumho Arts Hall, and Seoul Arts Center. He has also performed in numerous chamber music series including La Jolla Music Society, Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, Chamber Music International in Dallas, Hudson Valley Chamber Circle, International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Laureate Series, Linton Chamber Music in Cincinnati, Brattleboro Music Center and Rockport Music.
Mr. Kim was a member of the Collaborative Piano Staff at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Kent State University. He also served as a studio pianist for Itzhak Perlman at the Perlman Music Program during the program’s Sarasota Residency. Mr. Kim is the Admissions Director at ENCORE Chamber Music Institute and serves as the program director of the collaborative piano faculty.