Esther Yoo

Violinist Esther Yoo has successfully made the transition from prodigy to adult artist after winning major prizes as a junior player. She has released several successful albums on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Yoo was born to South Korean parents in the U.S. in 1994. She took up the violin at age four. Her parents moved to Europe when she was six, and she was trained mostly there. Yoo asserts that she "may be unique among classical soloists in being fully tri-cultural." Yoo was educated in Belgium and Germany, and she also embraces her Korean family background. She gave her ...