Wee Jaewon
No. 30
Country: Korea, South
Date of birth: 5 October, 1999
Wee Jaewon is a graduate of The Juilliard School with a master’s degree, and continues in a graduate diploma program on the dean’s full scholarship at the New England Conservatory, studying under Donald Weilerstein. She recently won the first prize at the YSAYE Senior 2022 International Violin Competition as well as the first & the audience prize at the Washington International Competition. She was also awarded the second & the special iPalpiti Prize at the George Enescu International Competition, and won top prizes at the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists, International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, Kloster Schöntal International Violin Competition and many other events. As a winner of the Juilliard Violin Concerto Competition 2019, she made her New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with the Juilliard Orchestra, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky. She has performed as a soloist with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Italy Palermo Festival Symphony Orchestra, Korean Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, and Busan Philharmonic Orchestra, at the 2022 Verbier Festival, among others.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Bartók: 1. rapszódia // Rhapsody No. 1, BB 94a
J. S. Bach: 2. (a-moll) hegedűszonáta // Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003 – 1. Grave, 2. Fuga
Semi-final
Bartók: Szonáta szólóhegedűre // Sonata for Solo Violin, BB 124 – 1. Tempo di ciaccona
Waxman: Carmen-fantázia // Carmen Fantasie
Schumann: 1. (a-moll) hegedű-zongora szonáta // Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in A minor, op. 105 – 1. Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck
Veljko Nenadić: Two Movements – Impromptu and Perpetuum mobile for Violin and Piano
Final
Sibelius: d-moll hegedűverseny // Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47