Successes for HfMT violinist

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The HfMT violinist Jieun Son recently won first prize at the renowned Júlio Cardona International Music Competition in Covilhã, Portugal, as well as a special prize for modern music as part of the "Ava Musical Editions". She is currently studying with Prof. Sebastian Schmidt and is preparing for her concert exam.

Vita
Jieun Son was born in South Korea in 1998. She completed her Bachelor's degree at Seoul National University with Prof. Kyung Sun Lee. She then studied her master's degree with Prof. Sebastian Schmidt at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama. She has been continuing her concert exam since October 2023. As a soloist, she won the Kreutzer International Competition, Elise Meyer Foundation Competition and the Siberia International Competition. She has already given concerts with the Bulgarian Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Teleradio-Moldova, the Daegu Symphony Orchestra and many others. In addition to various chamber music projects, including tour concerts in South Korea as guest second violin in the Arete String Quartet and performances at festivals such as the Gustav Mahler Academy and the Villars Music Academy Festival, she took part in the Bregenz Orchestra Festival in 2022. She received further artistic inspiration in master classes with Prof. Midori Goto, Mihaela Martin, Ik-Hwnn Bae, Kolja Blacher, Nora Chastain and Christoph Poppen. She has been an academy member of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin since February 2024.