CONCERTS & SCHEDULE
Concert Series No.5 in Georgia
Benefit Concert for Refugee Children
in support of City Hope Community
7pm on Friday, November 7, 2025
Birmingham United Methodist Church
15770 Birmingham Hwy, Milton, GA 30004
TICKETS & DONATIONS
PROGRAM
Franz Schubert Fantasie in F Minor, Op.103, D.940
I. Allegro molto moderato
II. Largo
III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace
IV. Finale. Allegro molto moderato
Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 1 & 5
Young Yoo, Piano
Hye-Won Cho, Piano
Intermission
Jules Massenet Meditation fron Thaïs
Jeong Yoon Lee, Violin
Hye-Won Cho, Piano
Felix Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op.49
I. Molto Allegro Agitato
II. Andante con molto tranquillo
III. Scherzo. Leggiero e vivace
IV. Finale. Allegro assai appassionato
Jeong Yoon Lee, Violin
Sang Jun Yhee, Cello
Young Yoo, Piano
PERFORMERS
Dr. Hye-Won Cho, Piano
Dr. Hye-Won Cho, pianist, has been praised for her brilliant technique and sensitive musicality. A first-prize winner of the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, she has performed worldwide, including Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, and on the Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago. She has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras and participated in major festivals such as Kneisel Hall, Yellow Barn, and Banff.
Dr. Cho received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School in New York. Dr. Cho has served on the faculty of Occidental College in Los Angeles and currently teaches piano at Biola University while maintaining a private studio in Orange County. She is also a founding member and concert program coordinator of Confido Music Society.
Dr. Jeong Yoon Lee, Violin
Dr. Jeong Yoon Lee, is a music educator and violinist who has been serving as a director and teacher for the ANM Music Academy for more than 10 years as well as performing regularly with Oregon Symphony. She is also a founding member of Oren duo and TG Trio.
She started violin at the age of three and first debuted as a soloist with Pusan Philharmonic Orchestra at age ten as the winner of the Young Artist Competition.
She pursued her study under legendary pedagogue Dorothy Delay at Juilliard School where she received her BM. She also holds MM in violin performance from Southern Methodist University under the guidance of Prof. Eduard Schmieder, and
completed DMA from Stony Brook University under Prof. Soovin Kim as a full scholarship recipient.
Dr. Lee is currently serving as a Vancouver Symphony Orchestra second violin principal, and an adjunct violin faculty at Clark College, Vancouver, WA. She is also a member of Confido Music Society.
Dr. Sang Jun Yhee , Cello
Dr. Sang Jun Yhee has a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Cello Performance from the Manhattan School of Music. He earned his Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from The Juilliard School and also a Konzertexamen Degree, the highest artistic degree offered in Germany, from the Lubeck Musikhochschule.
In America, Dr. Yhee studied with world-class cellists Harvey Shapiro of the Primrose String Quartet, David Soyer of the Guarneri Quartet, and Joel Krosnick of the Juilliard Quartet.
In Germany, he studied under the scholarship awards of the DAAD (Deutsche Academic Exchange Service) and the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund.
Dr. Yhee has performed all over the world including at Usedom Music Festival in Germany, the Chigiana Academy in Italy, Interlaken Classics in Switzerland, and the International Mendelssohn Festival in Hamburg. He was also a winner or finalist for numerous international and domestic cello competitions and subsequently has played with many orchestras as a soloist. His most recent orchestral performance was the Saint Saens Cello Concerto No.1 with the Hamburg Camerata Orchestra. Additionally, Dr. Yhee has worked extensively and performed with the distinguished cellists David Geringas, Arto Noras, Troels Svane, and Jens Peter Maintz. Through his interactions with them, he has learned how to best play the cello and also has observed and assimilated their styles of teaching and approaches to music. Dr. Yhee currently serves as a substitute cellist for the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Young Yoo, Piano
Young Yoo has been primarily active as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. She has given concerts throughout the United States and South Korea. She performed at Jordan Hall with Youth Philharmonic Orchestra of New England Conservatory and has given concerts at Gardner Museum in Boston, Paul Hall in NY, Zipper Hall in CA as well as Seoul Performing Arts Center and Kumho Arts Center in South Korea. Her many awards and honors include second prize in the Grace Welsh International Piano Competition, First prize in the Harvard Musical Association Competition, Orleans 20th century International Piano Competition in France and many other competitions throughout the United States and South Korea.
Yoo received her Bachelor's and Master's degree at the Juilliard School as a student of Yoheved Kaplinsky. She received the Joseph Fidelman Scholarship and Vladimir Horowitz Scholarship while she was in the Juilliard School.
In addition to performing, she has been an active teacher for more than 20 years in Los Angeles, and the South Bay area.
In 2023, she relocated to Alpharetta, GA with her husband and she is currently working as a private music coordinator and private piano teacher at Wesleyan School in Peachtree Corners, GA and also teachers privately in her own studio.
She is a founding member and artistic director of Confido Music Society.
