As of September 2000

Ju-Young Baek, violin

Violinist Ju-Young Baek won First Prize in the 2000 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, which includes $5,000, a New York debut in the Young Concert Artists Series, and management services. At the Auditions, Ms. Baek was also awarded the Usedom Music Festival Prize for concerts in Germany, the Beracasa Foundation Prize to appear at the Montpellier Radio-France Festival, and the Paul A. Fish Memorial Prize.

The Mortimer Levitt Award for Women Artists will present Ms. Baek's New York debut recital in the Young Concert Artists Series at the 92nd Street Y on November 28, 2000. She also makes debuts this season in Washington, DC at the Kennedy Center, under the auspices of the Korean Concert Society, and in Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. In addition, Ms. Baek performs in recital at the Washington Center for the Performing Arts in Olympia and at Pennsylvania State University during the 2000-2001 season.

Ms. Baek won the Bronze Medal at the 1998 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, as well as four special prizes: The Best Performances of a Beethoven Sonata, an Ysaÿe Sonata, an encore piece, and the commissioned work by Ned Rorem. She won First Prize at the 1997 International Dong-A Violin Competition in Korea, top prizes at the 1996 International Paganini Violin Competition and the 1995 International Sibelius Violin Competition, and won the 1994 Philadelphia Orchestra Young Artists Competition to perform with the Orchestra.

Ms. Baek has performed as soloist with Norway's Drammens Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in Suntory Hall, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, the Korean Broadcasting System Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Tblisi Philharmonic in the Georgia Republic, the Alma-Ata Symphony in Kazhakstan, the Finnish Radio Orchestra, the Seoul Yego Symphony Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall and the Asiana Sinfonia Orchestra in New York's Merkin Concert Hall.

Ms. Baek has performed chamber music at the Ravinia Festival, the Marlboro Music Festival, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Juilliard's FOCUS! Festival, the Salzburg Summer Music Festival, the Rencontres Musicales Festival in Evian, France, and the Kusatsu International Music Festival in Japan.

Ju-Young Baek received a Bachelor of Music from The Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Aaron Rosand, and a Master's from The Juilliard School as a student of Robert Mann. Ju-Young Baek's career has been assisted by Astral Artistic Services of Philadelphia, which presented her Philadelphia debut recital in 1998.

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