Hayoung Choi (violoncello)
Biography, Audio/video, Discography, Photos, Concerto repertoire, Programmes
www.hayoungchoi.com/

Biography

“A daring cellist with intense and flamboyant playing.” – Le Soir

“She captured the hearts of the audience and judges with her boldness and her inward-looking as well as expressive playing.” – RTBF

South Korean cellist Hayoung Choi, born in Bielefeld (Germany) in 1998, is the First Prize Winner of the 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition for Cello.
She also won the First Prizes at the 3rd Krzysztof Penderecki International Cello Competition and Johannes Brahms International Competition. During the Kronberg Cello Masterclasses she was awarded the “Landgrave of Hesse Prize” and “Leyda Ungerer Music Prize”. Most recently, she has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the FENDI Music Award.
Her recent and current highlights include performances with Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice Philharmonic Orchestra, Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Classical Players and KBS Symphony Orchestra.
The 23/24 season brings the debut with orchestras such as LA Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, European Union Youth Orchestra and Filarmônica de Minas Gerais.
 
Choi made her debut with Camerata Salzburg performing Haydn’s Cello Concerto no.1 at the age of twelve. She has performed with numerous orchestras such as Kremerata Baltica Orchestra, Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Barcelona Chamber Orchestra and Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra. She was invited to play at renowned music festivals, among them are the Amsterdam Cello Biennale, Kronberg Cello Festival, City of London Festival and Prades Pablo Casals Festival.
As a chamber musician, she has performed with musicians such as Sir András Schiff, Gidon Kremer, Christian Tetzlaff, Kim Kashkashian, Jörg Widmann and Mitsuko Uchida.
She attended the Purcell School in the UK and received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the Kronberg Academy in Germany under the tutelage of Prof. Frans Helmerson. Later on she completed the professional studies programme in Kronberg, in class of Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. She currently studies at the prestigious Escuela Seprior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain with Prof. Ivan Monighetti.
 
Hayoung Choi plays on the 1707 ex-Starker Joseph filius Andrea Guarnerius cello on loan from an anonymous patron.

Audio/Video

Photos

Concerto repertoire

Dvorak

Cello Concerto in b minor

E. Elgar

Cello Concerto in e minor

F. Gulda

Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra

J. Haydn
Cello Concerto in C major

Cello Concerto in D major

W. Lutoslawski

Cello Concerto

K. Penderecki
Cello Concerto No.2 (from 2022/23)

Viola Concerto arr. for cello

C. Saint-Saëns

Cello Concerto in a minor

R. Schumann

Cello Concerto in a minor

Shostakovich

Cello Concerto no.1 in E flat major

P. I. Tchaikovsky

Rococo Variations

P. Vasks
Cello Concerto No.2

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Programs

Program A – C (cello solo)

Program A

D. Gabrielli

Ricercar 6°

J.S. Bach

Suite no.1, BWV 1007

D. Gabrielli

Ricercar 2°

J.S. Bach

Suite no.2, BWV 1008

D. Gabrielli

Ricercar 3°

J.S. Bach

Suite no.6, BWV1012

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Program B

“Bach & Penderecki”

K. Penderecki

Divertimento ‘Serenade’

J.S. Bach

Suite no.1, BWV 1007

K. Penderecki

Divertimento ‘Nocturno’

J.S. Bach

Suite no.2, BWV 1008

K. Penderecki

Divertimento ‘Scherzo’

J.S. Bach

Suite no.6, BWV 1012

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Program C

“Bach & Isang Yun (1917 – 1995, German/Korean composer)”

I. Yun

Etude no.1 “Legato”

J.S. Bach

Suite no.1, BWV 1007

I. Yun

Etude no.3. “Parlando”

J.S. Bach

Suite no.2, BWV 1008

I. Yun

Etude no.7 “Doppelgriffe”

J.S. Bach

Suite no.6, BWV 1012

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Programs 1-4 (Cello + piano)

Program 1

L. v. Beethoven, Werke für Cello und Klavier mit dem Pianisten Alim Beisembayev 

7 Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’, WoO 46

Sonata for cello and piano No. 3 in A major, Op. 69

Pause

Sonata for cello and piano No. 4 in C major, Op. 102, No. 1

Sonata for cello and piano No. 5 in D major, Op. 102, No. 2

 

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Program 2

Janacek

Pohadka

Schubert

Arpeggione Sonata for cello and piano

Intermission

Rachmaninov

Sonata for cello and piano

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Program 3

Mendelssohn

Variations concertantes

Mendelssohn

Sonata for cello and piano no.2

Pause

Shostakovich

Sonata for cello and piano

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Program 4

Janacek

Pohadka

Grieg

Sonata for cello and piano

Intermission

Prokofiev

Sonata for cello and piano

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