2007-2008 Competition Winner – Daisy Joo, violin

Daisy Joo, a junior in high school and violin student of Jin-Kyung Joen, started lessons at age 4. She is a first violinist in New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom she has traveled to Brazil, Venezuela, and China. Daisy has won Parkway Concert Orchestra’s Violin Competition, New England Philharmonic’s Young Artist competition and Quincy Symphony’s “Young Artist Performs” Competition. Daisy also has placed in NEC’s Preparatory School’s Concerto Competitions and the Rhode Island Philharmonic’s Concerto Competition. She has received scholarships from the Sharon Chamber Music Association and attended the Killington Music Festival as a select “Junior Apprentice”. There Daisy collaborated with Max Levinson and studied with Juliette Kang, Yehonatan Berick, and Miriam Fried. This past summer she attended Le Domaine Forget with scholarship and studied with Mark Fewer, Yehonatan Berick, and the Arthur-Leblanc String Quartet. Daisy has participated in masterclasses by Irina Muresanu, Miriam Fried, Lynn Chang, Regis Pasquier, and James Ehnes.