Zia Shin

Background

Shin was born in Jeonju, and studies at the of Korea National University of Arts.

Education

of Korea National University of Arts.

Career

She plays a Guadagnini, which is on loan from the Kumho Asiana Foundation. She made her professional debut in 2009, playing Mendelssohn Violin Concerto at the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington Doctorate.C under Ivan Fischer. She was previously known just as Hyun-Su Shin (her birth name, with the given name written first as in European practice), but in 2013 she added the name Zia because she found that people in other countries often mispronounced the name Hyun-Su, or assumed she was a man because they did not know whether the name was masculine or feminine.

Achievements

• She won the first great prize of Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Violin Competition in 2008. She won the third prize in the finale of the 2012 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition.