These concerts are Chee-Yun's debut with the North Carolina Symphony.

    A winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Chee-Yun’s many orchestral highlights include tours in the United States, with the San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas, and in Japan, with the NHK Symphony; a concert with the Seoul Philharmonic that was broadcast on national television; and a benefit for UNESCO with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Avery Fisher Hall. Other orchestra appearances include the Toronto, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Atlanta, and National symphony orchestras, as well as Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, and New World Symphony.
    Chee-Yun’s recording of Penderecki’s Violin Concerto No. 2 was acclaimed as “an engrossing, masterly performance” (The Strad magazine) and “a performance of staggering virtuosity and musicality” (American Record Guide). Since her recording debut in 1993, releases have included Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole, and Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto No. 3. Two compilation discs, Vocalise d’amour and The Very Best of Chee-Yun, feature highlights of earlier recordings. 2008’s Serenata Notturno went platinum within six months of its release.
    Chee-Yun has performed frequently on National Public Radio’s Performance Today and on radio programs across the world. She appeared on PBS on Victor Borge Then and Now 3, in a live broadcast at Atlanta’s Spivey Hall concurrent with the Olympic Games, and on ESPN performing the theme for the X Games. In 2009, she appeared in an episode of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. A short documentary film, “Chee-Yun: Seasons on the Road,” premiered in 2017 and is available on YouTube.
    Chee-Yun’s first public performance, at age eight, took place in her native Seoul after she won the Grand Prize of the Korean Times Music Festival Competition. At 13, she came to the United States and was invited to perform Vieuxtemps’ Concerto No. 5 in a Young People’s Concert with the New York Philharmonic. In 1989, she won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and a year later she became a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant.
    Chee-Yun plays a violin made by Francesco Ruggieri in 1669. It is rumored to have been buried with a previous owner for 200 years and has been profiled by the Washington Post.