Chungyoon Choe

Chungyoon Choe was born in Seoul, South Korea, and took up playing violin and piano at the age of four. She began her bachelor’s studies at the Korean National University of Arts and completed them after studying with Viviane Hagner at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2012 onwards. She graduated with a master’s degree from the Mannheim Academy of Music and Performing Arts. Chungyoon Choe is a winner of the Rodolfo Lipizer Violin Competition and has given numerous recitals in Germany and abroad. She has appeared as a soloist with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic and the Jena Philharmonic. Chungyoon Choe attended master classes with Thomas Brandis, Rainer Kussmaul and Donald Weilerstein, among others. She completed her training as an orchestral musician as a Ferenc Fricsay Scholarship holder at the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester and as a member of the academy of the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin. Since 2018 Chungyoon Choe has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.