Emerald City Music: Evening with Violinist Jinjoo Cho

• Jinjoo Cho, violin

Emerald City Music presents award-winning violinist Jinjoo Cho in a full-length multimedia concert for solo violin.

In Detail: South Korean violinist Jinjoo Cho – first prizewinner of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Concours musical international de Montréal, and more – joins Emerald City Music for our first-ever full length concert for only the solo violin. Three vastly different works bring into vision a "circle of life" narrative. Beginning with the wandering mysteriousness of Biber's Passacaglia – one of the world's oldest surviving solo violin works – the night gives way to Bach's stately Chaconne, widely considered the apogee of violin repertoire. Juri Seo's Toy Store – a multimedia work dedicated to Jinjoo Cho – is not music for children, but rather a reflective journey through the various experiences of childhood that live on in our minds as adults. Drawing inspiration from punk jazz, John Adams, 19th-century presto movements, and video game music, the first movement, "Jack-in-the-Box," is a dramatic portrayal of surprise, humor, and obsession as experienced in a childlike mind. The second movement, "Monster Truck," combines heavy metal and 18th-century Chaconne to create a musical narrative that is at once violent and hilarious. “Mobile," explores the feelings of comfort and fear associated with falling asleep, as one experiences a taste of death. In the penultimate movement, "Roller Skates," resolution begins to take shape as the violin and prerecorded track participate in multi-part canonic unison. Finally in "Bubbles," the ethereal soundscape of pizzicati, harmonics, and tremolo evokes lightness and release.

This program will receive 2 performances:
- Friday, April 19, 8pm at 415 Westlake in Seattle
- Saturday, April 20, 7:30pm at the Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Arts in Olympia.

About Emerald City Music

http://www.emeraldcitymusic.org

About Jinjoo Cho, violin

http://www.jinjoocho.net/