Orchestra:
FVG Orchestra
Conductor:
Paroni (Italy)
Soloist:
Shin violin (South Korea)
Programme:
Felix Mendelssohn
The Hebrides
Overture
Alexey Shor
Four Seasons of Manhattan
for Violin and Symphony Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.8
Felix Mendelssohn
The Hebrides
Overture
Alexey Shor
Four Seasons of Manhattan
for Violin and Symphony Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.8
Paolo Paroni
Appointed Regular Guest Conductor of the New York City Ballet in 2014, Paolo Paroni has worked with orchestras and opera houses of international standing, including the Slovenian Philharmonic, the Zagreb Philharmonic, the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the symphony
orchestras of Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Teatro Verdi in Trieste, the Capella Savaria Baroque Orchestra, the Pannon Philharmonic, the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the Sofa Festival Orchestra and the Big Band and Choir of the Bulgarian
National Radio. Paroni has appeared in venues such as the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City, Béla Bartók National Concert
Hall (Müpa) in Budapest, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Stadt-Casino Concert Hall in Basel, Kodály Centre Concert Hall in Pécs, Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Bulgaria Concert Hall in Sofa, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb, Radiokuturhaus of Vienna, Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza and Philharmonic Theater of Verona.
Paolo Paroni is both an enthusiastic advocate of historical performance and a committed supporter of new music. His repertoire ranges from Baroque masterpieces to cutting-edge contemporary works. Paroni has conducted over 70 premieres, several of which have been commercially recorded. He
is renowned for his inventive programming and for projects that explore the common ground between diferent musical genres. In this capacity Paolo has collaborated closely with international artists from a variety of stylistic and cultural backgrounds, such as soloists Stefan Milenkovich, Teresa
Berganza, Mario Brunello, jazz musicians Kenny Wheeler and Enrico Rava, some of the most prominent dancers from Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theaters, Royal Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, New York City Ballet, World Music fgures, Rock instrumentalists and Middle Eastern musicians. The Swingle Singers
described Paolo Paroni as an “incredibly precise and clear conductor” (Berio, Sinfonia for Eight Voices and Orchestra) while the Altenberg Trio Wien portrayed him as “an outstanding musician, resolute and delicate, assertive and considerate, strong-minded and perceptive at the same time” (Beethoven, Triple Concerto).
Paolo Paroni was born in Italy, where he earned his degree in Composition and Organ. He completed his conducting studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where he graduated cum laude. His conducting teachers include Gilberto Serembe and Uroš Lajovic.
Zia Hyunsu Shin
Violin
“… [Zia Hyunsu Shin] is a perfectionist, not letting even a short single note slide. She is a sculptor who knows how to carve out clearly and reveal the outlines of a melody. She is a violinist who can unveil the inner depth of music…exposing sensuously tunes that are elaborately intertwined.”
- Recital Review in Auditorium (2010 December Issue)
Zia Shin is a violinist representing South Korea, who has astounded the world through her international accomplishments, without studying abroad.
In 2008, Zia Shin expanded her domestic and international career by winning four prestigious awards at the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition, which is a world-renown international classical music competition in France, namely the “First Great Prize of Académie des Beaux-Arts,” the “Prize of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France,” the “Prize of the Prince Albert II of Monaco,” as well as “Prize of the Students of the Paris Conservatories.”
While in the midst of over 100 global performances in Japan, all Asia, and other foreign countries, Shin continued to challenge herself and ultimately received the “Count de Launoit Prize (Third Place)” at the 2012 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Belgium, which is considered as one of the most prestigious competitions for instrumentalists.
Starting 2012, Shin further showed her tenaciousness by making an important decision to change her Korean name from ‘Hyun Su Shin’ to ‘Zia Shin’ in order to make her name more easily pronounceable for her international audiences and with a global outreach in mind.
Zia Shin started playing the violin at the age of four, and upon graduating with honors from both Jeonju Middle School and High School for the Arts, in 2004, she was admitted early to Korea National University of Arts Preparatory School as a music prodigy. Since her elementary age, Shin participated in the Education for Art Prodigies Program at Korea National University of Arts, under the guidance of violinist and Professor Nam-Yoon Kim.
Korean Domestic Awards:
1996: Honam Art Festival (Grand prize)
1997: Hankook Children’s Daily Music Competition (1st prize)
1999: Ewha Kyunghyang Music Competition (1st prize)
2001: National Youth Music Concours (Ministry of Culture and Tourism Award and Grand prize)
International Awards:
2002: Yehudi Menuhin International Competition for Young Violinists (Junior category, 2nd prize)
2003: 3rd Annual Johansen International Competition for Young String Players (1st prize)
2004: Paganini Competition (3rd prize with no 1st prize)
2005: Tibor Varga International Violin Competition (3rd prize)
2005: International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition (3rd prize)
2006: Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover (2nd prize & Audience Award)
2007: International Tchaikovsky Competition (5th prize)
2008: Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition (1st prize)
2012: Queen Elisabeth Competition (3rd prize)
Shin is praised to be quite extraordinary to have received multiple, internationally recognized awards without any foreign education. In addition to receiving the “Grand Prize” at the 1st Annual Shinhan Music Award in 2009 and the “Talent Award of Korea” from the South Korean Government in 2010, Shin has performed with numerous orchestras, including the following: The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) of Washington D.C. under Maestro Ivan Fischer; NHK Symphony Orchestra; Japan Philharmonic Orchestra; Tokyo Symphony; Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra; Nagoya Philharmonic; Sapporo Symphony; and New Japan Philharmonic. She has also performed at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and the Vienna Musikverein Golden Hall, as well as with Maestro Daniel Harding in Japan and with Maestro Gilbert Varga in Mexico in 2012.
Aside from her successful trio tours and performance at the HKGNA Music Festival with Myunghwa Chung and Yeol Eum Son, Zia Shin also performed at diverse domestic and international music festivals, including the Beppu Argerich Music Festival, Copenhagen Music Festival, Macao International Music Festival, Ishikawa Music Festival, and the PyeongChang Music Festival.
In 2015, Shin performed the “Beethoven Triple Concerto” with the world-class Maestro Myung Whun Chung, cellist Mischa Maisky, and the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. In April of 2018, she had a successful recital at the Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall with pianist Akira Eguchi, whom she had previously performed with on her very first classical album, “Passion.”
In 2007, Shin performed at the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's inauguration celebration held at the UN General Assembly in New York. She participated in the “Asian Games Concert: Music for Sports & Harmony” hosted by UNESCO to celebrate the Guangzhou Asian Games in 2010. Shin also performed the opening ceremony at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games. In the same year, she was appointed as the ambassador for K-Classics in South Korea.
In addition to her performance at the eve of 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade, in 2017, Shin performed the “The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto” in Beijing at the “Korea-China Cultural Exchange Night,” in front of the South Korean president Moon Jae-In and the Chinese president Xi Jinping, to celebrate the two countries’ diplomatic ties for 25 years. In the same year, Shin was appointed as one of the 25 brightest K-Arts artists at the 25th anniversary of Korea National University of Arts. Recently, Shin was invited to perform at the “To the Heroes” to commemorate the 70th year of the 6.25 Korean War.
TV:
Host of “The Concert,” KBS 1TV Program
TV Commercial:
“Lancome” commercial, with actresses Sung-Ryung Kim, Ji-min Han, Jain Kim
Discography:
2005: “Toi” (Japan)
2012: “Passion” (Korea & Japan) / 2011, February (Universal, AVEX)
2015: “Canto Antigo”
2016: “Serenade solo”
2018: “Duo” with violinist Richard Yongjae O'Neill
Zia Shin’s previous violin, Stradivarius (1710), was generously loaned by Nippon Music Foundation, while Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation and SooYoung Art Trade loaned her various violins, Samsung Foundation of Culture also loaned her previous Stradivarius. Currently, Zia plays a modern violin by “Stephan von Baehr.”
FVG Orchestra
FVG Orchestra is a recently born symphony orchestra, founded at the behest of the Italian region Friuli Venezia Giulia in order to gather the musical inheritance of the many realities belonging to this border area - rich in musical traditions. Betting against the Italian standard, the foundation of FVG Orchestra represented the choice to invest in the musical values by forming a new orchestra defined to be talented and artistically kind.
Even immediately after its foundation, FVG Orchestra gave concerts in Budapest – in the astounding room which used to be the seat of the Hungarian Parliament, and in many theaters among Friuli Venezia Giulia.
The Principal Guest Conductor is M° Paolo Paroni, already Principal Guest Conductor of the New York City Ballet Orchestra and guest conductor in plenty of Symphonic Institutions in Italy and abroad. The orchestra has also worked with other conductors of the highest repute, aiming to an exponential artistic growth.
While progressively developing in this, FVG Orchestra has regularly hosted many Concertmasters arriving from some of the most prestigious Italian and international realities – such as Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Teatro La Scala Orchestra in Milan, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Rai in Turin, and other symphonic orchestras known for their undiscussed musical quality.
FVG Orchestra is one of the promoters of the rebirth of the longtime Festival Internazionale dell’Operetta in Trieste, century-old seat of the Light Opera genre – attempting to push its tradition even outside the regional borders.
In late 2020, while facing the national closure of theaters due to the pandemic emergency caused by COVID-19, FVG Orchestra has been one of the first institutions in Italy to program and give a short, online-streamed concert season – involving several top-class soloists and conductors in the major theaters of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region.
FVG Orchestra musicians are first-prize winners in both competitions and international prizes and have played with orchestras such as Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Mozart in Bologna, Teatro La Scala Orchestra in Milan, Filarmonica della Scala in Milan, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Rai in Turin, Orchestra Haydn in Trento and Bozen, Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona, Orchestra del Teatro Lirico in Cagliari and Orchestra del Teatro Verdi in Trieste.