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| Joo Yeon Sir |
Award-winning violin virtuoso &
composer Joo Yeon Sir on this A World in
London!
Within the first few bars of Joo Yeon
Sir’s opening piece on AWIL it became apparent that we were in the
presence of greatness. To be honest, we experience that feeling on a
regular basis given the great tide of tremendous talent that walks
into our studio, but even so, Joo Yeon’s powers of expression and
violin virtuosity was extra special. Even more remarkable was her
humble confession that she doesn’t yet see herself as a composer,
but we’re hungry for more of her original work having heard ‘My
Dear Bessie’ which was her first commission. But what of Joo Yeon
the performer? Well she’s a multi-award winning musician that has
toured the globe, gracing the most prestigious venues in the
classical world, and does all of this as a solo artist outside of the
orchestral realm. The day we met her she’d just taken a train back
from the Lichfield festival with her pianist partner Irina
Andrievsky, who also happens to be the only other instrumentalist
featured in Joo Yeon’s second and brilliant album, ‘Chaconnes,
Divertimento, & Rhapsodies’. Arriving fresh as daisy to give a
genuine and candid interview plus live session on AWIL, Seoul born
Joo Yeon frequently speaks of her love for the violin, and when she
plays it, cradled as a fifth limb, it sings from her heart.
Fortunately she was never tasked with having to learn an instrument
unwillingly, and instead her amateur pianist mother upon recognising
her talent, sought out the best school she could find. That turned
out to be the Purcell school in London and so the entire family
relocated to the UK when Joo Yeon was just nine. The rest is history
and the future is deliciously tantalising – hear all about Joo Yeon
on this AWIL – and see her on stage in the capital at St. James
Piccadilly on August 23rd! Find her full concert schedule
at http://www.jooyeonsir.com/page2.htm
10/7/19 – AWIL
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& pics by Norman Druker, Sophie Darling, Lucas Keen, artist Alban
Low. Also this week Sophie Darling & Strut Records’ Quinton
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