Thursday 24 March 3.00 pm

Jane Cho (violin)
Kumi Matsuo (piano)

Schumann: Violin sonata in A minor Op 105  (17')
(3 movements)

Clara Schumann: 3 Romances for Violin and Piano Op 22  (10')

Brahms: Violin sonata in D Minor Op 108  (25')
Allegro / Adagio / Poco presto / Presto

Jane (Hyeonjin) Cho, born in 1997 in Seoul, has begun playing the violin at the age of 6. In 2006, she took up a place at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England where she studied with Professor Liutsia Ibragimova. In 2012, Jane took up a place in the University of Music Performing Arts in Graz with Professor Boris Kuschnir. Being chosen as one of the most promising musicians by the Kumho Asiana group in Korea in 2011, she regularly gives concerts in Korea. In 2015, Jane was invited by Augustin Dumay to partake in his masterclass in Paris at the Louis Vuitton Fondation and gained a place at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel under the guidance of Augustin Dumay. Since then she has participated in projects with artists and professors such as Gary Hoffman, Miguel da Silva, Frank Braley and Pavel Vernikov., and has been invited by the Kronberg Academy ‘Chamber Music Connects the World' in 2016 to play with Gidon Kremer and Christian Tetzlaff. Wanting to pursue her passion for chamber music, Jane then went on to participate in the Seiji Ozawa Academy in Switzerland under the mentorship of Nobuko Imai, Sadao Harada and Pamela Frank. In 2019, Jane recorded her debut CD with Augustin Dumay, Miguel da Silva and Henri Demarquette of the Debussy quartet. In 2021, she was awarded 2nd price at the 28th KBS KEPCO Music Competition in South Korea as well as gaining 3rd prize at the NOMEA Competition in 2022. Having received her solo violin Artist Diploma from the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel under Augustin Dumay, Jane is also studying at the Royal College of Music in London with Mark Messenger and Alexander Gilman, as a Joseph Clover Scholar. Jane plays a Patigny bow kindly granted by Augustin Dumay, and on a ‘Francisco Ruger detto il Per in Cremona dell'ano 1679' kindly granted by the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel.

Kumi Matsuo was born in Tokyo, Japan. Winner of the 5th Louisiana International Piano Competition, she has also won numerous other international competitions. After graduating from the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, Kumi studied at the Royal College of Music where she completed her Artist Diploma, Master's degree and the Anthony Saltmarsh Junior Fellow in Accompaniment. She won the RCM concerto competition twice. She has also played Schnittke's Concerto Grosso No.1 conducted by Vladimir Jurowski at the Queen Elisabeth Hall. Kumi made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2014 and a tour in New Orleans with Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra performing Beethoven's Emperor Concerto in 2015.

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