Walton: Violin Concerto / Stravinsky: Violin Concertoīach: Partita No. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto / Sibelius: Violin Concertoīruch: Violin Concerto / Scottish Fantasia In 2011, she received the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts division in recognition of her 40-year-long career as a violinist and educator.ĭiscography Solo recordings Year of issue She received the Kyung-Ahm Prize in 2005. In 2007, Chung joined Juilliard as a member of the faculty of the school's Music and Pre-College Divisions. Ĭhung has two sons, Frederick and Eugene, from her past marriage to the British businessman Geoffrey Leggett. However, her reaction to the audience coughing, including persistent coughing from a child in her line of vision and her subsequent talking to the child's parents, caused widely reported controversy at this recital. Her most recent return to live performance was in London at the Royal Festival Hall in December 2014. In 2008, illness and injury caused her to halt her performing career temporarily. In 1997, she celebrated the 30th anniversary of her international debut at Barbican Centre in London and in her hometown of Seoul, South Korea. Other recordings include Vivaldi's Four Seasons, which was selected as Gramophone's editorial choice, and the Brahms violin concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic under Simon Rattle. She has recorded chamber works such as the Brahms violin sonatas, Franck & Debussy sonatas, and Respighi & Strauss sonatas (with Krystian Zimerman, a recording which earned her a Gramophone Award for Best Chamber Recording).
Her commercial recordings include core repertoire violin concerti, including Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Berg. In Europe, Chung continued her musical studies with Joseph Szigeti. Her debut album with André Previn and London Symphony Orchestra, which coupled Tchaikovsky and Sibelius concertos, brought her international attention, including the top recommendation in the BBC Radio 3's Building a Library programme which compared the various recordings of the Sibelius. The success of this engagement led to many other performances in the United Kingdom and a recording contract with Decca/London. Her next big opportunity came in 1970 as a substitute for Itzhak Perlman, with the London Symphony Orchestra. She substituted for Nathan Milstein for his White House Gala when he became indisposed. This prize led to several engagements in North America, such as with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. In 1967, Chung and Pinchas Zukerman were the joint winners of the Edgar Leventritt Competition, the first time for such an outcome in the history of the competition. She followed her older flautist sister Myung-Soh Chung in attending the Juilliard School in New York, where she studied with Ivan Galamian.
The three of them have subsequently performed professionally in their later careers as the Chung Trio.Īt age thirteen, she arrived in the United States.
Her younger brother, Myung-whun Chung is a conductor and a pianist, and her older sister, Myung-wha Chung is a cellist and teacher at the Korean National University of Arts in Seoul.
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All of Chung's siblings played classical instruments and three of them would become professional musicians. As the children became famous in Korea, Chung's mother felt that it was too small a country for her children to further their musical careers, and she decided to move to the United States. With her siblings, Chung toured around the country, performing music both as soloist and as a part of an ensemble. As time progressed she steadily won most of the famous music competitions in Korea. She became recognized as a child prodigy, and by the age of 9 she was already playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. She began piano studies at age 4, and violin studies at age 7, where she proved more sympathetic to the violin. Her father was an exporter, and her mother ran a restaurant. Kyung Wha Chung was born in Seoul as the middle of the seven children in her family.
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