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yumi hwang-williams Yumi Hwang-Williams has been concertmaster of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra since 2000, and of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music since 1998. She began violin studies at the age of ten in Philadelphia, one year after emigrating from South Korea. At age fifteen, she had appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and was accepted as a student of Jascha Brodsky at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she received her Bachelor of Music degree. She has also studied with Yumi Ninomiya-Scott, Sylvia Rosenberg, Joseph Silverstein, and David Arben, former Associate Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, who continues to be her mentor. During the 1999-2000 season, she made her solo debut with the Colorado Symphony, with Marin Alsop conducting. Since then, she has made annual solo appearances with the CSO. Hwang-Williams made her debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra playing the Dvorak Violin Concerto with Paavo Jarvi. She served as Principal Second Violin with the Cincinnati Symphony since 1995 and her performances marked the first time in the history of the symphony that the Principal Second Violinist was invited as a soloist. Hwang-Williams performed the Christopher Rouse Violin Concerto at the Cabrillo Festival in 2001 and her performance was marked "Sensational!" by the Wall Street Journal. This season, she was soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony in Lament and Prayer by Aaron Jay Kernis, having performed the West Coast Premiere of the work at Cabrillo in 1999. She will also perform the West Coast premiere of Michael Daugherty's Violin Concerto Fire and Blood at Cabrillo this season. Hwang-Williams has also appeared as soloist with the Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Mozart Orchestra, Cincinnati Sinfonietta, among others. She is an avid chamber musician and recitalist and has collaborated with such artists as Gary Graffman, Ida Kavafian, Christopher O'Riley, and John Kimura Parker. Her concerto performances, solo recitals, chamber music concerts, and orchestral solo continue to receive praise from the critics. She is a faculty member of the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver.
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