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Violinist Scott Yoo is currently in his ninth season as Music Director of the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, an ensemble he co-founded in 1993. In addition to leading the orchestra in its subscription series at Jordan Hall in Boston, he has conducted the ensemble in debut performances in New York and Washington, D.C. Recent events for Mr. Yoo and Metamorphosen included a 30-city U.S. tour and a CD release with violinist Mark O'Connor for Sony Classical. In 1999, Mr. Yoo was named Associate Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra after serving one season as the orchestra's Assistant Conductor. He makes his Dallas Symphony subscription debut in November 2000 with bassist Edgar Meyer.
An exponent of new music, Mr. Yoo has introduced a newly commissioned work on each of Metamorphosen's subscription concerts. In the past six seasons, Mr. Yoo and the orchestra have premiered 27 works by 18 composers. Recent CD releases with Metamorphosen include premiere recordings of six modern American works for Albany; the vocal works of Earl Kim with soprano Benita Valente for New World Records; and the works of Turkish pianist/composer Fazil Say for Cambria. Scott Yoo and Metamorphosen also recorded three discs for Archetype Records, including the Serenades of Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Grieg (September 1997); premiere recordings of John Harbison's chamber orchestra works with soprano Dawn Upshaw and oboist Peggy Pearson (September 1998); and the Eighth and Eleventh Sinfonias of Mendelssohn (August 1999).
An active chamber musician, Mr. Yoo has made frequent appearances with chamber music festivals throughout the United States, including Bargemusic, Boston Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Kingston Chamber Music Festival, Las Vegas Music Festival, Laurel Music Festival, New Hampshire Music Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Festival and Strings in the Mountains.
Scott Yoo began his musical studies with the violin at the age of three and performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Boston Symphony at age twelve. His violin teachers have included Roman Totenberg, Albert Markov, Paul Kantor and Dorothy DeLay. After winning first prize in the 1988 Josef Gingold International Violin Competition, he won the 1989 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. In 1994, he was the recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant. A year later, was named Young Artist-in-Residence of National Public Radio's Performance Today. Since 1995 he has studied conducting with Michael Gilbert.
Mr. Yoo graduated with honors and a B.A. in Physics from Harvard University in 1993.
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