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Ye-Eun Choi was born in 1988, Seoul, Korea.
She began to play violin at the age of five with professor Nam-Yun Kim in the pre-college of the Korean National University of Arts.
She is now developing herself as a musician under the professor Ana Chumachenco in the München Musik Hochschule.
She was highly acclaimed as one of the promising violinists after winning the 2nd Prize at the 4th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians at the age of fourteen.
Her virtuosity and musical maturity was highly recognized when she was awarded the 1st Prize at the competition of the Seoul Baroque Chamber orchestra,
She began to play violin at the age of five with professor Nam-Yun Kim in the pre-college of the Korean National University of Arts.
She is now developing herself as a musician under the professor Ana Chumachenco in the München Musik Hochschule.
She was highly acclaimed as one of the promising violinists after winning the 2nd Prize at the 4th International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians at the age of fourteen.
Her virtuosity and musical maturity was highly recognized when she was awarded the 1st Prize at the competition of the Seoul Baroque Chamber orchestra,
the 2nd Prize of the Leopold-Mozart International violin competition(Germany), the 2nd Prize of the Montreal International Musical Competition(Canada),
the finalist of International Violin Competition of Indianapolis(USA) as the youngest prize winner respectively.
Ye-Eun Choi was frequently invited to many Festivals and Academy including Rheingau Music Festival(Germany), Verbier Academy(Switzerland), Asiago Festival(Italy), Festival Gdansk Wiosna(Poland) and Ishikawa Music Academy(Japan).
She has appeared with numerous renowned orchestras including the Muenchner
Rundfunk orchestra, Indianapolis symphony orchestra, the Montreal Symphony orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the China Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra,Kuhmo chamber Orchestra, the Indianapolis Chamber orchestra,
Ye-Eun Choi was frequently invited to many Festivals and Academy including Rheingau Music Festival(Germany), Verbier Academy(Switzerland), Asiago Festival(Italy), Festival Gdansk Wiosna(Poland) and Ishikawa Music Academy(Japan).
She has appeared with numerous renowned orchestras including the Muenchner
Rundfunk orchestra, Indianapolis symphony orchestra, the Montreal Symphony orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the China Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra,Kuhmo chamber Orchestra, the Indianapolis Chamber orchestra,
the Seoul Baroque Chamber Orchestra etc.
Ye-Eun Choi's profile has also been developed through the performances with Anne-Sophie Mutter in München, Frankfurt, Dresden and with English Chamber Orchestra.
Especially, it is remarkable that she was selected as one of the Emerging Artists of this year, 2007 by American Symphony Orchestra League.
She is the current scholarship recipient from "Anne-Sophie Mutter Circle of Friends Foundation" and plays the 1794 Giuseppe Guadanini - kindly loaned by the Kumho Cultural Foundation.
Ye-Eun Choi's profile has also been developed through the performances with Anne-Sophie Mutter in München, Frankfurt, Dresden and with English Chamber Orchestra.
Especially, it is remarkable that she was selected as one of the Emerging Artists of this year, 2007 by American Symphony Orchestra League.
She is the current scholarship recipient from "Anne-Sophie Mutter Circle of Friends Foundation" and plays the 1794 Giuseppe Guadanini - kindly loaned by the Kumho Cultural Foundation.
