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Yutu concert features master violinist
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Posted on Dec 27 2018
A master violinist who is also known as the “Maestro on Wheelchair” will be the featured performer of a free concert on Saipan right after the New Year’s Day celebration.
JP Entertainment president Jun Ho Park said that Dr. In Hong Cha would be performing in a musical concert at the Mount Carmel Cathedral on Jan. 3, 2019, at 7:30pm.
“This concert is an encouragement for all residents of the CNMI due to Super Typhoon Yutu. It’s free and everyone is welcome,” he told Saipan Tribune.
Cha, who is a professor of music at the Wright State University in Ohio, is also the official university orchestra conductor; professor of violin; and first violin of the university’s Faculty String Quartet. Cha would be performing on Saipan with pianist Hye Yeon Hwang.
Cha was presented the 2018 Best Classical Album of the Year award and the Best Classical Artist of the Year award during the 2018 Pepsi Music Awards in Venezuela in early 2018. The award was designed to highlight the best of Venezuelan musical talent and was presented to Cha on Sept. 27, 2018, in Caracas, Venezuela.
Cha was honored with the award through his album, Textures From the North of South, which is a musical coordination between Cha and Colombian-Venezuelan music producer Hildemaro Alvarez.
Cha is also a former concertmaster at the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra and former principal of the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra, and has received the Korean presidential award for the most distinguished Korean living in a foreign country.
Cha is an active performer in the United States, Europe, South America, and Asian countries. Two Korean Broadcasting System documentaries are based on his autobiographies, Beautiful Man and Beautiful Success, which was published in 2003, and Wheelchair is my Wing, which was published in 2012.
