ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Yun-Jin Cho Violin

Yun-Jin Cho started playing violin at the age of six after two years of piano. In 1998, at the age of 15, she came to Germany to study violin. From 2001–2009 she completed violin studies with Ulf Wallin at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. She received numerous first prizes and special prizes at national and international music competitions such as the Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition, Robert Canetti Competition, and the Lions Club Musik Competition. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has been a guest at several international music festivals in Germany, Korea, Japan, Turkey, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Since 2008 she has played in the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, as Deputy First Concertmaster, with a oneyear interruption where she played as First Concertmaster in Staatsoper Hamburg. She started her teaching career in 2015 at the Hochschule für Musik und Theatre Mendelssohn-Bartholdy in Leipzig where she has been teaching violin and orchestral studies as well as the Orchestra Academy in the Gewandhaus Orchestra. In 2019 she also started to teach at the BarenboimSaid Academy in Sevilla, Spain. As an enthusiastic chamber musician, she has performed with artists such as AnneSophie Mutter, Leonidas Kavakos, Joshua Bell, Leif Ove Andsnes, Alan Gilbert, Gautier Capuçon, and Friedemann Weigel. In 2019 she was chosen for the member of Gewandhaus Quartet as the first female member in its history.

Karl

Heinrich Niebuhr Violin

Karl Heinrich Niebuhr, born in Leipzig in 1985, studied violin at the local music academy with Klaus Hertel. He received additional impetus from Igor Ozim, Gérard Poulet and Thomas Brandis, among others. He won first prizes at ‘Jugend musiziert’ and at the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung’s violin competition. He has been a member of the Gewandhaus Orchestra since 2007 and concertmaster of the second violins since 2020. He also plays regularly with ensembles such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Sinfonia Grange au Lac, the Ensemble Avantgarde and since 2009 in the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. He gives concerts regularly as a soloist and chamber musician, making radio recordings for Rundfunk BerlinBrandenburg (RBB), Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) and Deutschlandradio Kultur, among others.