Heifetz 2016: Ji-Won Song & Beilin Han | Butterfly Lovers Concerto

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New England Conservatory student Ji-Won Song has won the Ninth Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition. Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Song will take home a €10,000 first place prize, a CD recording, concert opportunities, and also the €2,000 audience prize. Song is currently in her first year of the Master of Music program at NEC, where she studies with Donald Weilerstein and Soovin Kim.

below is what she plays Butterfly lovers.

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Aristo Telian6 months ago
How did I go this long without ever hearing this? This is superb! the composition and the execution are thrilling, engaging, exalting. I am captivated by this.

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Replacing the orchestra with just a piano loses quite a bit of the color but no fault of the performers, though, who play magnificently.