Suseong Artpia, under director Park Dong-yong, will present violinist Songha Choi in the May edition of its 2026 Matinee Concert series. The performance is set for the small theater on Thursday, May 7, at 11 a.m.
The Matinee Concert series offers weekday-morning classical performances with onstage commentary from the artists. The small theater’s intimate acoustics, paired with refreshments served before and after the concert, are designed to give audiences a relaxed cultural experience.
The program features violinist Songha Choi, a prizewinner at several leading international competitions. She was the youngest second-place finisher and recipient of the Audience Prize in the senior division of the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition, took second place and a special prize at the Montreal International Music Competition, and earned honors at the Queen Elisabeth Competition. The Times described her playing as “mesmerizing — full of passion, imagination and daring.”
Choi has appeared as a soloist in major halls including the Berlin Philharmonie, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and London’s Wigmore Hall. She regularly performs with prominent orchestras at home and abroad, including the Belgian National Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony, the KBS Symphony Orchestra and the Daegu City Symphony Orchestra. She performs on a 1680 Antonio Stradivari violin, the "Ex Dannuncio-Baccarat," on loan from the Lyn Collection.
The program is a solo violin recital without piano. Choi will open with Fritz Kreisler’s "Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice," proceed to J.S. Bach’s Partita No. 2 in D minor — widely regarded as a cornerstone of the unaccompanied violin repertoire — and perform demanding solo sonatas by Béla Bartók and Eugène Ysaÿe. She will conclude with Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s "Louisiana Blues Strut," which blends classical technique with blues rhythms to lift the program’s energy.
Audience members will be served coffee or tea from Café Somyo and bread from Anouk, a well-known Daegu brunch bakery. Tickets are 30,000 KRW (about $22.50). The performance is recommended for elementary school students and older. Inquiries: 053-668-1800
