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Violinist Jae-In Shin has
distinguished herself as one of the most promising artists, performing
extensively throughout Europe, North America and Asia, since her concerto debut with one of the major orchestras in Korea at
the age of 11. She has made further solo appearances with the Seoul
Symphony, Port Angeles Symphony, UW Symphony, Seattle Metropolitan
Chamber Orchestra, Daejeon Philharmonic, Sammamish Symphony, Seattle
Philharmonic, and Washington Idaho Symphony and often performed live on local
and national television and radio such as on KBS and King FM Radio.
Since the age of 4 Jae-In studied music at the Preparatory School of
Korean National University of Arts, Yewon School, and Seoul Arts High School
and received her bachelor’s degree in music at Yonsei University in Korea,
Master’s degree at Yale University, and Doctoral degree at University of
Washington. She studied with Dong-Suk Kang, Hyo Kang and, Ronald Patterson and
appeared at the master classes by Gil Shaham, Nam-Yoon kim, Kurt Sassmannshaus,
and Paul Kantor.
Throughout the world, Jae-In has won 1st place in
numerous competitions, including New York International
Music Concours, the Korea-Germany Music Competition, the Baroque
String Competition, LMC Solo Competition, the Carmel Instrumental Competition,
American Protégé International Competition and has been a two-time winner
of the Korean Music Society Competition. As an active soloist and chamber
musician, Jae-In has concertized at Carnegie Hall in New York, Benaroya
Hall in Seattle, Sunset Center in Carmel, Seoul Arts Center in Korea, Teatro
Gayarre in Spain and more in Dajeon, Busan, Jeju: Korea, Courchevel: France,
Gorizia: Italia, Hong Kong, Beijing: China.
She served a concertmaster in
many orchestras including Seattle Philharmonic and Olympic Ballet, as
well as gave world premiere performances of works by many of today’s
leading composers such as Jordan Kuspa and Fay Kueen
Wang. Besides, Jae-In is a passionate music educator
and taught string players at Yale University and Bellevue High
School. A founding member of Bozarth Trio, Jae-In was also
presented in Hi Seoul Festival, the Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival, the
Parnassus Project, and has been involved in various musical projects
beyond the classical world.