Background
Myung-wha Chung was born in 1944 in Keijō, Japanese of Korea (today Seoul, South of Korea), to a musical family.
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Myung-wha Chung
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She finished her high school studies at the Seoul Arts School, and made her debut with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, before continuing her studies in the United States of America. Following that, she then studied with Gregor Piatigorsky at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles between 1965-1968.
Career
She was a pupil of Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School in New York City between 1961 and 1965. She made her United States. concert debut in San Francisco in 1969, and her European debut at Spoleto, Italy, in 1969. In that same year, she also had the honor of performing at the White House.
Her cello is the 1731 "Braga" Stradivarius.
She is professor of cello at Mannes College of Music in New York, and head of the cello faculty at the of Korea National University of Arts, the School of Music in Seoul. Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP), appointed 1992
Goodwill Ambassador for United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in of Korea
Special envoy for the City of Seoul.
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Awards
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San Francisco Symphony Award, 1967 First Prize (cello), Geneva International Music Competition, 1971 National Order of Cultural Merit, South Korea, 1992 Excellence 2000 Award ("for outstanding contribution to American society in the field of music"), US Pan-Asian Chamber of CommerceSan Francisco Symphony Award, 1967 First Prize (cello), Geneva International Music Competition, 1971 National Order of Cultural Merit, South Korea, 1992 Excellence 2000 Award ("for outstanding contribution to American society in the field of music"), US Pan-Asian Chamber of Commerce