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As a chamber musician, Scott Yoo has appeared with Bargemusic, Boston Chamber Music Society, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Strings in the Mountains, and the Colorado College, Las Vegas, and New Hampshire Festivals. He is co-founder and Music Director of the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, with whom he has made eight recordings. In 2004, he was appointed Music Director and Principal Conductor of Festival Mozaic, and has served as the Conductor of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival since 2002. As a guest conductor, Mr. Yoo has led the Colorado, Dallas, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Nashville, Oregon, San Francisco, and Utah Symphonies, as well as the New World Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. In Asia, he has led the orchestras of Hong Kong and Seoul, and will conduct the Yomiuri Nippon Orchestra this year. Mr. Yoo began his violin studies at the age of three and performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Boston Symphony at age twelve. He won first prize in both the Josef Gingold International Violin Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and in 1994 he received an Avery Fisher Career Grant. He has studied violin with Roman Totenberg, Albert Markov, Paul Kantor and Dorothy DeLay, and conducting with Michael Gilbert and Michael Tilson-Thomas. Mr. Yoo graduated with honors and a B.A. in Physics from Harvard University.
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