Wonhee Bae - violin 1
Violinist Wonhee Bae is one of the most sought-after performing violinists of her generation. Recent engagements include a performance of the Walton Violin Concerto with Maestro George Pehlivanian and the Orchestre des Laureats du Conservatoire de Paris,Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Deutsche Kinderärzte Orchester at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra under Maestro Roman Brogli-Sacher, The Iasi Philharmonic Orchestra under Maestro Khachun Wong, the Philharmonie der Nationenunder Justus Frantz, the Russian National Orchestra, the Stanislavski Danchenko Theater Orchestra, Korean Chamber Orchestra, and the Bergische Symphoniker.
In recital she recently performed a series of concerts in Germany under the Villa Musica Foundation culminating with a concert at Villa Musica Mainz with live radio broadcast on SWR. Other concert halls she has performed in include the Frankfurt Alte Oper, the GroßerSaal of the Mozarteum in Salzburg as part of Salzburg Festspiele, Royal Festival Hall London, Baden-Baden Philharmonie Hall, the Athenaeum Bucharest, Cité de la Musique Paris, the Kumho Prodigy series at Kumho Art Hall, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Bing Theater.
Ms. Bae has won a series of internationally acclaimed awards, prizes, and honours including being named the 2013 Culture Prize winner of Hauck and Aufhäuser, the ‘Ocean Classical Award’ – the world’s largest classical music public prize in 2012, as well as top prizes in violin competitions of international renown including the Georges Enescu Competition in Bucharest, Tchaikovsky International Competition for Young Musicians, the Isang Yun Violin Competition in Tongyeong, and the Lipizer International Violin Competition in Italy.
And as the first violinist of the Esmé Quartet, she has won the first prize as well as four special prizes at the prestigious Wigmore Hall String Quartet Competition in London, and since then she has been performing over 60 concerts a year across the world.
She graduated with highest honours from the Royal College of Music, London with Dr. Felix Andrievsky and continued her study at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. She received her Konzertexamen with Mihaela Martin in the Cologne Musikhochschule, Germany. She plays on Andrea Guarneri 1690 violin kindly on loan from the German Music Foundation. Currently she serves on the violin faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.