Joo Yeon Sir

Biography:

Joo Yeon Sir was born in Korea in 1990 where she began piano lessons at the age of five and violin lessons at the age of six. During her studies in Korea, she has performed at 12th Mozart Spring Festival on the piano at the age of six, which was broadcast on national TV and has appeared as a soloist with the Korean Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of seven, as a result of winning 1st prize at Korean Philharmonic Orchestra Competition. She has been a prize winner at numerous competitions in Korea, including 1st prize winner at the very prestigious Eumyeon Music Magazine Piano Competition at the age of six, which appeared in "Eumyeon Music Magazine".

Since 2000, she has been living in London and has been studying at The Purcell School of Music, where she studies with Dr. Felix Andrievsky (professor at Royal College of Music). She has performed at various venues across the UK, including the Wigmore Hall, Brittens Theatre at Royal College of Music and Bishopsgate Institute and has given concerts as soloist with many orchestras. She has attended master classes given by Alexander Arenkow, Gyorgy Pauk, Sylvia Rosenberg and Ida Haendel.

Joo Yeon Sir has been the winner of many national and international competitions; in 2006 she became Grand Prix Laureate at "Prof. Nedjalka Simenova" International Competition for Young Violinists in Haskovo, Bulgaria at the age of sixteen, where her performance was broadcast on Radio Bulgaria (BNR).

She has won many Young Musician titles, including Harlow Rotary Club Young Musician of the Year in 2005 and 2006, Rotary District Young Musician of the Year 2007 and Sevenoaks Young Musician of the Year 2007, which resulted a concert performance opportunity with Lydian Orchestra in summer 2007. She has also been awarded various prizes for performance including "the most outstanding performance in string section" at Ealing Festival, Duke of Devonshire Award for best performance by aged 17 and under and Colonel Howes Award at Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist Competition 2007, Challenge Cup and President’s Prize at North London Festival, and most recently she has received "Prix de l’Hospitalité Musicale 2007" from Masters de Belesbat, resulting a recital in France in 2008. She has been supported by John E. Mortimer Award from Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund and also received the RPS Emily Anderson Award (£2,500) from the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2007. She has been also first prize winner at many concerto competitions throughout the UK, including East London Concerto Competition, Ealing Concerto Competition, North London Competition and Marlow Concerto Competition.

Her future engagements in 2008 include a concert opportunity with an orchestra in Oxfordshire, a recital at Leeds University and in Paris, and her composition will be played at Queen Elizabeth Hall in the South Bank Centre in February 2008.

Joo Yeon Sir is also a composer and she has won composition awards, including 1st prize and title of [BBC/The Guardian Young Composer of the Year] 2005 at the age of fourteen for her composition "Conflict in Time", which has been performed at Wigmore Hall, Cadogan Hall by Endymion and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Also, Joo Yeon Sir's newest composition, Cold Dark Matter - an exploded view, will be played at Queen Elizabeth Hall at the South Bank Centre in London.

Sources: [ [http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/calendar?action=production&production=18718&performance=18719 Southbank Centre > Calendar > Purcell Symphony Orchestra ] ] [ [http://www.purcell-school.org/index.php?page=concerts&num=2 Purcell ] ] [ [http://www.cowbeech.force9.co.uk/ESO/recent.htm Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra Recent Events ] ] [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/06_june/28/composers.shtml BBC - Press Office - Young Composers Competition ] ] [ [http://www.royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/?page=youngArtists/biogs/youngartists07/sir.html RPS Young Artist Biography - royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk ] ] [ [http://www.bnr.bg/RadioBulgaria/Emission_English/Theme_Music/Material/Joo.htm BNR Radio Bulgaria Music ] ]

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