The Music Department and Festival Mozaic will co-present Scott Yoo for a strings master class at 11:10 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, in Room 218 of the Davidson Music Center (No. 45).
Cal Poly string students will play some works, and Yoo will coach them on their performance.
Yoo is music director of Festival Mozaic, chief conductor and artistic director of the Mexico City Philharmonic, and host and executive producer of the PBS series “Now Hear This,” the first American prime-time television program about classical music in 50 years. He has conducted major orchestras across the U.S. and abroad, including the London Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, with appearances at Carnegie Hall and other leading venues in Europe and Asia.
An acclaimed violinist, Yoo has performed as soloist with the Boston, San Francisco, and Dallas Symphonies, among others, and is a frequent guest at top chamber music festivals nationwide. Winner of the Josef Gingold International Violin Competition, Young Concert Artists Auditions, and an Avery Fisher Career Grant, he studied at Harvard and trained with legendary teachers such as Dorothy DeLay and Michael Tilson Thomas. He also founded the Medellín Festicámara, a program uniting world-class artists with underprivileged youth, and continues to champion music’s power to connect and inspire worldwide.