Esther Yoo
Esther Yoo
Genres: Classical
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About Esther Yoo
Esther Yoo began playing the violin at four-years-old and made her concerto debut aged eight. At sixteen she became the youngest prizewinner of the International Sibelius Violin Competition and two years later was one of the youngest ever prize-winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition. In 2014 she became a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and in 2018 was selected as one of Classic FM’s Top 30 Artists under 30. In 2020 WQXR named her one of twenty Artist to Watch. She performs with leading conductors – including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Myung-Whun Chung, Vasily Petrenko, Thierry Fischer, Karina Canellakis and Andrew Davis – and orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Seoul Philharmonic, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, BBC Symphony and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. She has performed at a range of prominent festivals, including BBC Proms and Aspen Music Festival, and has appeared in recital at Lincoln Center and Wigmore Hall. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra appointed her as their inaugural Artist-in-Residence in 2018, through which she participated extensively in educational and outreach projects, alongside concert performances in London and across the UK. Esther has recorded the Sibelius, Glazunov and Tchaikovsky concertos for Deutsche Grammophon, who will soon also release her recordings of Bruch and Barber. She featured prominently on the soundtrack and accompanying disc of the feature film, ‘On Chesil Beach’, and is a guest artist on pianist Chad Lawson’s album ‘breathe’, both released by Decca Records and recorded at Abbey Road Studios. Deutsche Grammophon have also released two recordings by the Z.E.N. Trio, which she founded together with fellow BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, Zhang Zuo and Narek Hakhnazaryan, and which tours widely in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The first album includes works by Brahms and Dvořák; and is followed by “Burning Through the Cold”, featuring piano trios by Shostakovich, Babajanyan, Rachmaninov and Khachaturian. Esther may be unique among classical soloists in being fully tri-cultural. She was born and spent her earliest years in the U.S., before receiving her education in Belgium and Germany, but she proudly retains her family’s Korean heritage. Having authentic roots in three continents contributes to her versatility and exceptionally broad range of expression, and is unquestionably a factor in making her one of the most articulate and gifted communicators in the field of classical music.
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