[NEohioPAL]Oberlin Conservatory Press Release

[Marci Janas]

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Oberlin Student Wins Third Prize at Prestigious
Wieniawski International Violin Competition

For Immediate Release:	Media Contact: Marci Janas
December 5, 2003		440-775-8328

OBERLIN, OHIO -- Ui-Youn Hong, a first-year violin performance major and a 
student of Assistant Professor of Violin Kyung Sun Lee, won third prize in 
the junior division of the Henryk Wieniawski International Violin 
Competition for Young Violinists, held in Lublin, Poland, in September.

Hong, who is 16 and from ChungJu in Korea, played Vieuxtemps' Concerto No. 
5 for the finals, in which she competed with nine violinists for the top 
prizes. Her Paganini Caprice No. 5, Bach Sonata No. 3, and Wieniawski 
Caprice had lifted her out of the preliminary pool of 60 participants, and 
she played Waxman's Carmen Fantasy for the semifinals.

One of the perks of being a top prizewinner was an invitation to perform at 
the competition's gala concert, held in Wieniawski Hall. She played the 
Waxman and the Wieniawski.

"This competition is known as one of the bigger and more difficult 
international violin competitions, especially in the junior division," says 
Lee. "Many well-known European violinists -- Maxim Vengerov, for example -- 
have won the Wieniawski."

Hong began her studies at Oberlin last year as Lee's private student; the 
two met in Korea three years ago.
	
"She teaches me to find the music in myself," says Hong of her teacher. 
"Oberlin is a wonderful place to study music, especially with all of the 
artists who come here to perform."

One of those artists, violinist Ida Haendel, who appeared in concert in 
November under the auspices of the Artist Recital Series, was herself a 
Wieniawski finalist, in 1935, at the tender age of seven. Hong was, 
understandably, in attendance at the concert and at Haendel's master class.

The Wieniawski is not Hong's inaugural success. She won first prize in the 
2000 I-Wha National Competition and in the 2001 Korean Times National 
Competition, both held in Seoul. A 2001 graduate of the YeWon School of the 
Arts, she has performed as soloist with the Seoul Philharmonic and the 
Korean Symphony orchestras.

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Marci Janas
Director of Conservatory Media Relations
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
39 West College Street
Oberlin, OH 44074
Tel: 440-775-8328
Fax: 440-775-5457
marci.janas at oberlin.edu
www.oberlin.edu/con

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</bigger></bigger></bigger></flushleft></bold><flushleft><bigger><bigger>OBERLIN, OHIO<bold> -- </bold>Ui-Youn Hong, a first-year violin performance major and a student of Assistant Professor of Violin Kyung Sun Lee, won third prize in the junior division of the Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition for Young Violinists, held in Lublin, Poland, in September.


Hong, who is 16 and from ChungJu in Korea, played Vieuxtemps' <italic>Concerto No. 5</italic> for the finals, in which she competed with nine violinists for the top prizes. Her Paganini <italic>Caprice No. 5</italic>, Bach <italic>Sonata No. 3</italic>, and Wieniawski <italic>Caprice</italic> had lifted her out of the preliminary pool of 60 participants, and she played Waxman's <italic>Carmen Fantasy</italic> for the semifinals.


One of the perks of being a top prizewinner was an invitation to perform at the competition's gala concert, held in Wieniawski Hall. She played the Waxman and the Wieniawski.


"This competition is known as one of the bigger and more difficult international violin competitions, especially in the junior division," says Lee. "Many well-known European violinists -- Maxim Vengerov, for example -- have won the Wieniawski."


Hong began her studies at Oberlin last year as Lee's private student; the two met in Korea three years ago.



"She teaches me to find the music in myself," says Hong of her teacher. "Oberlin is a wonderful place to study music, especially with all of the artists who come here to perform."


One of those artists, violinist Ida Haendel, who appeared in concert in November under the auspices of the Artist Recital Series, was herself a Wieniawski finalist, in 1935, at the tender age of seven. Hong was, understandably, in attendance at the concert and at Haendel's master class.


The Wieniawski is not Hong's inaugural success. She won first prize in the 2000 I-Wha National Competition and in the 2001 Korean Times National Competition, both held in Seoul. A 2001 graduate of the YeWon School of the Arts, she has performed as soloist with the Seoul Philharmonic and the Korean Symphony orchestras.


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Marci Janas

Director of Conservatory Media Relations

Oberlin Conservatory of Music

39 West College Street

Oberlin, OH 44074

Tel: 440-775-8328

Fax: 440-775-5457

marci.janas at oberlin.edu

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