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Violin Minji Grace Cho was born in Korea and started playing the violin at age 3. She moved to the United States in 1995 to study at the Juilliard School with Dorothy Delay. In 1999, Ms. Cho entered the New Jersey Young Artist Competition and won first prize. That same year, she was accepted into the Perlman Summer Music Program and was featured on a PBS documentary about the camp. In May of 2002, Minji performed her Avery Fisher Hall solo debut with the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York. The winter of 2003 featured Ms. Cho on PBS "Live from Lincoln Center" with Itzhak Perlman and his students from the Perlman Music Program. That same year, she gave her recital at Paul Recital Hall, Lincoln Center. Ms. Cho performed at the Lehman Brothers in the Spring of 2004, and later that year, gave solo concert of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor with the MYO orchestra at Alice Tully Hall. During that summer, Minji entered the Stefan Milenkovich Violin Competition and was one of the first prize winners. Ms. Cho has studied with Itzhak Perlman and Stefan Milenkovich for the past seven years. Now, at the age of 18, she has recently been accepted at the Juilliard School.
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