You Jung Han
You-Jung Han has been a violinist with the Orchestre National de France and concertmaster of the ensemble Le Balcon (dir. Maxime Pascal) since its founding in 2009. She began studying the violin with Miroslav Roussine (a pupil of David Oistrakh), and continued her training at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in the class of Boris Garlitsky, after having studied at the CRR de Paris with Igor Volochine. She further refined her skills in masterclasses with Olivier Charlier, Patrice Fontanarosa, Ida Haendel, and Pavel Vernikov. She is a prizewinner of the Glazunov and Vatelot-Rampal international competitions.
As concertmaster of Le Balcon, she has explored a wide repertoire from the 20th century and contemporary creation (Boulez, Grisey, Eötvös, Schoenberg…), as well as numerous operas and transcriptions (Strauss, Mahler, Rimsky-Korsakov, Berlioz). She regularly performs with leading orchestras and has played under the baton of conductors such as Myung-Whun Chung, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding, Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Paavo Järvi.
Invited to many prestigious festivals, she has appeared in some of the world’s greatest concert halls: Vienna Musikverein, Carnegie Hall in New York, Philharmonie de Paris, Berlin Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Royal Albert Hall in London (BBC Proms)… Her career today brings her to the stage across Europe and internationally, as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player.
She has also taken part in numerous recordings, notably the premiere of the chamber opera Bobba (Arthur Lavandier) and the reinvented version of Symphonie fantastique (Berlioz/Lavandier) with Le Balcon, released on Actes Sud / Harmonia Mundi. Her commitment to contemporary creation reflects a constant search for new sonic languages and a desire to bring tradition and modernity into dialogue.
You-Jung Han plays a Nicola II Gagliano violin (1798).