You Jung Han
You-Jung Han is a violinist of Korean origin; she is a member of the Orchestre National de France and soloist of the ensemble Le Balcon (directed by Maxime Pascal) since the ensemble's creation in 2009 and graduated with a first prize in violin from the CNSM in Paris. She began her violin studies with Miroslav Roussine (a student of David Oistrakh), then went on to the CRR in Paris (with Igor Volochine) before entering Boris Garlitsky's class at the CNSM in Paris, and participated in numerous masterclasses, notably with Olivier Charlier, Patrice Fontanarosa, Ida Haendel and Pavel Vernikov. She regularly receives mentorship from Florin Illiescu, Concertmaster of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. She was a laureate in 2007 and 2008 of the Glazunov and Vatelot-Rampal international competitions. His presence as solo violinist of the ensemble Le Balcon allows him to work on a large part of the 20th and 21st century repertoire (for example Vortex Temporum and the Quatre Chants pour traverser le seuil by Gérard Grisey – with the soprano Julie Fuchs –, Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schönberg or Le Balcon by Peter Eötvos), as well as numerous operas and arrangements of older repertoire (Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, the 4th symphony by Gustav Mahler, Scheherazade by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov and the Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz). She is regularly requested by the greatest orchestras (the Orchester de Paris, the Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchester Philharmonique de Luxembourg, the Orchester de Chambre de Paris, the Orchester National d'Île de France) and thus has the opportunity to play under the direction of conductors such as Myung-Whun Chung, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding, Neeme & Paavo Järvi, Riccardo Muti, Sir Roger Norrington, Esa-Pekka Salonen etc. She has been invited to festivals such as: Easter Festival in Deauville, Cordes-sur-Ciel Festival, International Ukrainian Biennale for New Music in Lviv, Musica Festival in Strasbourg, La Folle Journée in Nantes, Paris Quartier d’Eté Festival, Mostra Sonora Festival in Valence, Présences Festival in Paris, Berlioz Festival in La Côte-Saint-André, Festival des Fêtes Musicales at La Grange de Meslay… In 2015, she participated in the creation of the chamber opera Bobba by Arthur Lavandier (premiered at the Philharmonie Cité de la Musique in Paris), and the book-disc was published by Actes Sud / Harmonia Mundi. In 2016, she participated as solo violin in the recording of the disc Symphonie Fantastique by Arthur Lavandier/Berlioz with Le Balcon.