Cellist Joy Song has performed
concerts in the United States, Europe, Japan and Korea.
She is the first prize winner in the California Young Artists Competition, Southwestern Music Festival, the John Walker Competition, and has performed concertos with the San Diego Youth Symphony and the Claremont Young Musicians Orchestra. She is also the recipient of the Rotary Club scholarship as well as the Juilliard Community Service Fellowship. Joy has served as principal cellist in the Juilliard Symphony and Juilliard Orchestra, Claremont Young Musicians Orchestra as well as assistant principal in the New York String Seminar and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra.
Joy earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from the Juilliard School, studying with Joel Krosnick and Harvey Shapiro. Afterwards she won a Fulbright grant and spent one year in Berlin, Germany, studying with Troels Svane at the Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler” Berlin and receving a Ferenc Fricsay Stipend of the Deutsches-Symphonie Orchester Berlin. In the summer of 2005 Joy toured with the DSO Berlin where the orchestra opened the Salzburg Festival. Joy has attended the Taos Chamber Music Festival, the Piatigorsky Seminar, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestral Academy, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, and the Music Academy of the West. She is currently serving a year-contract with the Deutsches-Symphonie Orchester Berlin.
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