South Korean violinist Inmo Yang’s beguiling sound is imbued with poetry and
underpinned by unwavering technical prowess which quickly brought him to some of
the most prestigious stages in the world including New York Philharmonic and the LA
Phil in the upcoming season and Orchestre National de France, BBC Symphony
Orchestra, and Carnegie Hall in the previous seasons.
The 24/25 season opens with Asia tour with Berliner Barock Solisten and a return to
Oulu Symphony Orchestra for their Prokofiev Festival, followed by several important
debuts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony
Orchestra in Katowice, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Tampere
Philharmonia, Dresdner Philharmonie, and BBC Philharmonic. He also returns to
Seoul Philharmonic under their chief conductor Jaap van Zweden for a concert in Abu
Dhabi, Richmond Symphony, and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande before they
embark on a tour to Korea at the end of the season.
In previous seasons, Inmo appeared with many renowned orchestras including
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Boston
Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra,
Zurich Philharmonic Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and Hong
Kong Philharmonic Orchestra with leading conductors such as Marin Alsop, Myung
whun Chung, James Gaffigan, Neeme Järvi, Hannu Lintu, Fabio Luisi, Sakari Oramo,
David Robertson, John Storgårds, and Osmo Vänskä.
He is the first prize winner of both the 2015 International Violin Competition ‘Premio
Paganini’ in Genoa, Italy, and the 2022 Jean Sibelius Violin Competition. It was the
first time since 2006 that the Paganini Competition jury awarded First Prize and Fabio
Luisi, the chair of the jury at the time, commented: ‘Inmo is an intuitive musician. His
Paganini is captivating and exquisite.’
Inmo released his second Deutsche Grammophon album The Genetics of Strings in
His debut album—24 Caprices by N. Paganini—was recorded live as part of the
Kumho Art Hall residency and released under the same label in 2019.
Inmo studied with Namyoon Kim at Korea National University of Arts, Miriam Fried at
the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and Antje Weithaas both at
Kronberg Academy and Hanns Eisler Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, where he
currently resides in.
Inmo plays on a violin by G. B. Guadagnini of Turin kindly loaned by Jane Ng through
J & A Beare and the Beare’s International Violin Society for The International Jean
Sibelius Violin Competition.