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Jennifer Koh with Chicago Symphony, 11 years old
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1 Tchaikovsky - Serenade Melancolique
2 Tchaikovsky - Valse-Scherzo, Op. 34
3 Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 I. Allegro moderato
4 Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 II. Canzonetta: Andante
5 Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo
6 Tchaikovsky - Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42 I. Meditation
7 Tchaikovsky - Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42 II. Scherzo
8 Tchaikovsky - Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op. 42 III. Melodie
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Jennifer Koh, Musical America's 2016 Instrumentalist of the Year, headlines an album of Tchaikovsky's complete works for violin and orchestra. It's the "remarkable . . . thoughtful and vibrant" (Strings Magazine) American violinist's first recording of music by Tchaikovsky, who has figured prominently in her rise to the top ranks of violinists worldwide. Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D Major is one of the most celebrated and daunting works in the violin repertoire. The subdued Sérénade mélancolique illustrates the composer's ear for orchestral color. The delicate Valse-Scherzo melds old-fashioned elegance with spirited playfulness. Souvenir d'un lieu cher's poignant, nostalgic mood gives way to a delightful finale. Koh shared the top prize in the 1994 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, where she played the Tchaikovsky (and Brahms) concerto and won three special prizes, including for the best performance of Tchaikovsky's work.

The star violinist has a long history with her album collaborators, Denmark's Odense Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor, Alexander Vedernikov. In recent years, audiences have heard Koh perform the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Munich Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Carlos Miguel Prieto, Japan's NHK Symphony under Vedernikov, and the Odense Symphony Orchestra under Vedernikov and Christoph Poppen. This is Koh's eleventh album for Cedille Records, including the Grammy-nominated String Poetic. She's also recorded for Telarc, Chandos, BIS, and Kontrapunkt.

  • GRAMMY winner & Glen Ellyn native: Jennifer Koh returns to The Music Institute of Chicago for 'Bach and Beyond' / Daily Herald
    Posted At: October 2, 2023 12:00 AM
    Recognized for intense, commanding performances, delivered with dazzling virtuosity and technical assurance, violinist Jennifer Koh is a forward-thinking artist dedicated to exploring a broad and eclectic repertoire, while promoting equity and inclusivity in classical music. She has expanded the contemporary violin repertoire through a wide range of commissioning projects and has premiered more than 100 wor...
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  • Jennifer Koh Wins 2022 Grammy Award / Violinist.com
    Posted At: April 3, 2022 12:00 AM
    Violinist.com - Laurie Niles writes…..Congratulations to violinist Jennifer Koh, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the Philadelphia Orchestra, LA Phil and all winners of 2022 Grammy Awards, which were announced on Sunday at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony live show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.Koh's Alone Together, which won the Grammy for "Best Classical Instrumental Solo," was a project created in re...
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  • New Tyshawn Sorey piece for violin and orchestra set to premier with DSO featuring; Jennifer Koh / The New York Times
    Posted At: October 28, 2020 12:00 AM

    During a concert of his works last year at the Miller Theater in New York, the composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey, who has little patience with distinctions between genres and styles, described his artistic goal as working toward a model of "music that perpetuates itself." A new Sorey piece for violin and orchestra, "For Marcos Balter," receives its premiere during a 45-minute livestream fr...
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  • Terry & Gyan Riley and Jennifer Koh make I CARE IF YOU LISTEN 'this week's - live streamed concerts'
    Posted At: April 6, 2020 12:00 AM

    On Tuesday, April 7 at 12:00 PM Pacific Time, Composer/performer Terry Riley joins Music on Main with his son, guitarist Gyan Riley at their A Month of Tuesdays concert (filmed live Tuesday, February 18, 2020). On Saturday, April 11 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time, Violinist Jennifer Koh's Alone Together is an online commissioning project that brings composers together in support of the many freelancers amon...
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  • Jennifer Koh tells WFMT's Relevant Tones about some of the 60 works written especially for her
    Posted At: August 27, 2018 12:00 AM

    Virtuosic violinist Jennifer Koh is known for her commanding performances and technical assurance. Although she performs Tchaikovsky and Bach she's interested in finding the connection between the arts and music of all eras from traditional to now. Jennifer Koh tells WFMT: Chicago, Relevant Tones about some of the 60 works that have been written especially for her including a new work by Kaija Saariaho.&...
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  • Jennifer Koh makes Crain's Chicago Business '10 classical concerts to catch this fall' list
    Posted At: August 26, 2018 12:00 AM

    Returning to the Music Institute of Chicago as a star alumna, violinist Jennifer Koh co-stars with some of the greatest repertoire for solo violin: two pieces culled from Bach's intricate set of six sonatas and partitas. A blue-ribbon commissioner of new works for solo violin, Koh also plays "For Violin Alone," a seven-movement, looking-Bach work by contemporary composer John Harbison. Critics h...
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  • Jennifer Koh brings solo works to St. Anthony's Chapel via UCSB's 'Shared Madness' project / Santa Barbara Independent
    Posted At: April 26, 2018 12:00 AM

    Classical music performance has recently entered an unprecedented period of growth and creativity. At the center of this excitement, as well as at the top of the list of great contemporary violinists, stands Jennifer Koh, who will arrive in Santa Barbara this week for a performance of her solo project Shared Madness. Thanks in large part to UCSB Arts & Lectures, Koh has become a familiar presence...
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  • Jennifer Koh kills with CSO in Sibelius Violin Concerto / The Columbus Dispatch
    Posted At: April 7, 2018 12:00 AM

    A world premiere, a world-class soloist and one of the wildest symphonies the world has ever known blew the roof off the Ohio Theatre Friday night when Rossen Milanov led the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and violin soloist Jennifer Koh in works by Andreia Pinto-Correia, Sibelius and Berlioz. Jennifer Koh dazzled in the Sibelius Violin Concerto. In the concerto's fist movement, Koh's first cadenza was ...
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  • Jennifer Koh and Reiko Uchida anchor SoFlo concerts with Bach / Palm Beach Daily News
    Posted At: February 18, 2018 12:00 AM

    The Chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach's Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor is arguably the greatest piece of music for solo violin ever composed. No less an authority than Johannes Brahms declared that with only the violin, "the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and the most powerful feelings." Violinist Jennifer Koh has her own thoughts on the partita's final movement. "For me, the Chaconn...
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  • Glen Ellyn's Jennifer Koh premieres modern takes on Paganini at Northwestern's Winter Chamber Festival / Chicago Tribune
    Posted At: January 30, 2018 12:00 AM

    Jennifer Koh tackles ambitious contemporary projects designed to connect performers, audiences and living composers in mutually beneficial ways. In so doing, the Glen Ellyn-born virtuosa is adding substantially to the violin repertory: To date, she has given the premieres of more than 60 works written expressly for her. "Shared Madness," the two-part program Koh presented Sunday at Northwestern Universit...
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  • Houston Public Media with Jennifer Koh & Tchaikovsky
    Posted At: November 22, 2016 12:00 AM

    Holy 150th episode, Batman! Because we are so stoked to have reached this milestone, we bring you not one, but two treats: A new Classical Classroom show intro, and the comedic stylings of violinist Jennifer Koh. Jennifer was Musical America's Instrumentalist of 2016 and recently put out an album of Tchaikovsky's complete works for violin and orchestra. Some of Tchaikovsky's pieces are commonly referred ...
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  • Jennifer Koh & WCPE chat Tchaikovsky
    Posted At: November 21, 2016 12:00 AM

    Jennifer Koh, Musical America's 2016 Instrumentalist of the Year, headlines an album of Tchaikovsky's complete works for violin and orchestra. It's the "remarkable . . . thoughtful and vibrant" (Strings Magazine) American violinist's first recording of music by Tchaikovsky, who has figured prominently in her rise to the top ranks of violinists worldwide. Tchaikovsky's Concerto in...
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  • Jennifer Koh in Cincinnati, speaks with WGUC radio
    Posted At: November 18, 2016 12:00 AM

    Jennifer Koh, Musical America's 2016 Instrumentalist of the Year, headlines an album of Tchaikovsky's complete works for violin and orchestra. It's the "remarkable . . . thoughtful and vibrant" (Strings Magazine) American violinist's first recording of music by Tchaikovsky, who has figured prominently in her rise to the top ranks of violinists worldwide. Tchaikovsky's Concerto in...
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  • Jennifer Koh interviews with Idea Station - WCVE
    Posted At: October 26, 2016 12:00 AM

    Renowned violinist Jennifer Koh has released a new album of the complete works for violin and orchestra by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. This recording reunited Koh with a conductor and orchestra with whom she developed close bonds early in her career: Russian conductor Alexander Vedernikov and Denmark's Odense Symphony Orchestra. 88.9 WCVE: Richmond VA - Classical Music Host: Mike Goldberg recently spo...
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  • Tchaik talk with Jennifer Koh and All Classical Portland
    Posted At: October 12, 2016 12:00 AM

    Jennifer Koh is a name – and face, and sound – that should be familiar to many Oregon Symphony fans. One of her earliest appearances was in 2008, playing the Brahms concerto with the orchestra, and she's since returned to perform the Dvorak and Bartok concertos. I had the pleasure of hearing her perform more than once, and was impressed by her expressivity and technical prowess. And ...
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  • Jennifer Koh - Tchaikovsky. Interview with KMFA: Radio Austin
    Posted At: October 11, 2016 12:00 AM

    Grammy-nominated violinist Jennifer Koh stays busy. She is a both a prolific recording artist and performer who's known for doing what you could say are pretty "serious" projects. She regularly commissions composers to write new music for her. She's performed all of Bach's Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin on the same program. She's recorded rarely-performed fantasies for violin by Franz Sch...
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  • Jennifer Koh - Tchaikovsky / New Classical Tracks
    Posted At: October 5, 2016 12:00 AM

    New Classical Tracks is a Syndicated Feature airing Nationally on Classical 24 & Statewide on Minnesota Public Radio. Listen to Julie Amacher's Feature with Jennifer Koh. READ THE TRANSCRIPT - The music of Tchaikovsky has been in the life of violinist Jennifer Koh for as long as she can remember. Koh was just 17 years old when she won top honors at the International Tchaikovsky competiti...
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  • Jennifer Koh talks Tchaikovsky with Classical Radio / part 2
    Posted At: September 21, 2016 12:00 AM

    Jennifer Koh, Musical America's 2016 Instrumentalist of the Year, headlines an album for Cedille of Tchaikovsky's complete works for violin and orchestra. This is the American violinist's first recording of music by Tchaikovsky, who has figured prominently in her rise to the top ranks of violinists worldwide. Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D Major is one of the most celebrated and daunting wor...
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  • Jennifer Koh releases Tchaikovsky's complete works for V&O / KHFM Radio
    Posted At: September 9, 2016 12:00 AM

    Jennifer Koh, Musical America's 2016 Instrumentalist of the Year, headlines an album of Tchaikovsky's complete works for violin and orchestra. It's the "remarkable . . . thoughtful and vibrant" (Strings Magazine) American violinist's first recording of music by Tchaikovsky, who has figured prominently in her rise to the top ranks of violinists worldwide. Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D Ma...
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  • Jennifer Koh - Tchaikovsky / KDFC 'Download Of the Week'
    Posted At: August 31, 2016 12:00 AM

    Each week, KDFC: San Francisco members can download a free mp3 from some of the biggest releases in the world of Classical music. This week's pick is from Jennifer Koh. As Musical America's 2016 Instrumentalist of the Year, Koh headlines an album of Tchaikovsky's complete works for violin and orchestra. It's the "remarkable . . . thoughtful and vibrant" (Strings Magazine) American violini...
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  • Is Tchaikovsky's VC in D unplayable? Jennifer Koh explains / WFMT
    Posted At: August 29, 2016 12:00 AM

    Jennifer Koh, Musical America's 2016 Instrumentalist of the Year, headlines an album of Tchaikovsky's complete works for violin and orchestra. It's the "remarkable . . . thoughtful and vibrant" (Strings Magazine) American violinist's first recording of music by Tchaikovsky, who has figured prominently in her rise to the top ranks of violinists worldwide. Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D Ma...
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  • Jennifer Koh talks Tchaikovsky with WRCJ
    Posted At: August 28, 2016 12:00 AM

    Jennifer Koh, Musical America's 2016 Instrumentalist of the Year, headlines an album of Tchaikovsky's complete works for violin and orchestra. It's the "remarkable . . . thoughtful and vibrant" (Strings Magazine) American violinist's first recording of music by Tchaikovsky, who has figured prominently in her rise to the top ranks of violinists worldwide. Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D Ma...
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  • Jennifer Koh speaks with WCLV: Cleveland about new Tchaikovsky album
    Posted At: August 25, 2016 12:00 AM

    Jennifer Koh, Musical America's 2016 Instrumentalist of the Year, headlines an album of Tchaikovsky's complete works for violin and orchestra. It's the "remarkable . . . thoughtful and vibrant" (Strings Magazine) American violinist's first recording of music by Tchaikovsky, who has figured prominently in her rise to the top ranks of violinists worldwide. Tchaikovsky's Concerto in D Ma...
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  • Jennifer Koh talks Tchaikovsky with Classical Radio
    Posted At: August 18, 2016 12:00 AM

    "remarkable . . . thoughtful and vibrant" (Strings Magazine)  Jennifer Koh, Musical America's 2016 Instrumentalist of the Year, headlines an album for Cedille of Tchaikovsky's complete works for violin and orchestra. This is the American violinist's first recording of music by Tchaikovsky, who has figured prominently in her rise to the top ranks of violinists worldwide. Tchaikov...
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