Julia Choi

Violinist Julia Choi has gripped audiences across the country with her commanding stage presence, sweet tone, and genuine expression. In pursuit of her ultimate goal in becoming a versatile and most well-rounded musician, she holds a wide range of repertoire from classical to contemporary music and has performed concerts at well-known venues such as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher and Alice Tully at Lincoln Center.

As a fellowship student, Ms. Choi has attended several music festivals during the summers, including The Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, Spoleto Festival USA, The Great Mountains Music Festival and School in Korea, and the Meadowmount School of Music in Upstate New York. While at Aspen, she was chosen to take part in the prestigious David Finckel/Wu Han Chamber Music Workshop while simultaneously studying with renowned concertmasters of today including Alexander Kerr and Bing Wang. She was also awarded the rare New Horizons Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival. While in Santa Barbara, she gave a standing-ovation-winning performance of the Brahms Double Concerto with the Music Academy Festival Orchestra under the baton of Andrew Grams after winning the Concerto Competition in collaboration with her sister, Jennifer. Ms. Choi is also a prizewinner of several competitions, including the LISMA International Competition, ASTA Competition, The New York Competition, and Caprio Young Artists Competition.

An avid chamber musician, Ms. Choi has taken part in Juilliard’s ChamberFest in 2012, 2013, and 2014. She has studied chamber music with distinguished chamber musicians such as members of the Juilliard, Emerson, and Cleveland String Quartets, Sylvia Rosenberg, Joseph Kalichstein, Kurt Muroki, Wu Han, David Finckel, Bonnie Hampton, Vivian Weilerstein, and Seymour Lipkin. She has participated in masterclasses with the most prominent musicians and pedagogues today including the likes of Midori, Gyorgy Pauk, Miriam Fried, Robert Chen, and Jeremy Denk.

Ms. Choi has recently found her passion for orchestral repertoire, after having been invited in January 2014 to play with professional orchestral musicians from world-class orchestras including Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, in a benefit concert for the Children of Syria. She regularly performs as concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, has been concertmaster of the Mus