Maureen

choi

Maureen Choi She is a unique, magnetic violinist, who, equipped with an enviable technique, is capable of hypnotizing the audience. 

Maureen Choi She is a unique, magnetic violinist, who, equipped with an enviable technique, is capable of hypnotizing the audience with the sensitivity that emanates from her violin.

Listening to it live is something difficult to forget.

From a Korean family and born in the United States, she graduated in classical violin from Michigan State University and jazz from Berklee College, where she is now also a professor.

He formed his quartet in 2012 upon arriving in Spain and since then they have won international jazz competitions and toured stages and festivals throughout Spain and the United States. In 2016 they presented their second album Ida y Vuelta (2015) in the prestigious AIEnRuta-Jazz cycle, and in the largest music market in the world, the South by Southwest Festival in Austin (Texas).

“Not everything is invented in music. This group led by the almost legendary and very young violinist Maureen Choi, offers us a luxurious mix of jazz, flamenco, folk, Latin songs…, with a common denominator to everything, beyond its originality: its quality.”
(Larry Harlow, Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award)

In 2017 they played throughout Spain, and filled the Café Central in Madrid for the fourth consecutive year, just before embarking on their second tour of the United States: 10 concerts that took them to cities such as Chicago, Cleveland, Akron, Detroit, Baltimore , Boston and New York and will end with the recording of his new album. In this new work, Choi delves with his band even further into Spanish music, between flamenco, Spanish classical and folklore, to once again create very personal music, full of emotion and originality.

In July 2017 they presented a new show with the music of Maureen Choi Quartet and the choreographies of two of the solo dancers of the National Ballet of Spain that premiered at the Castillo de Tiedra (Valladolid) and that unites Spanish dance with the improvisation of the jazz world.

Biography from the artist

Co. Jorge Guillén Lights, Camera, Action!
Brilliant Theater Cordoba 17/01/25

Jorge Bedoya «The Hands»
Caixa Bank Príncipe Pio Grand Theater 01/25/25

Co. Jorge Guillén Lights, Camera, Action!
Los Remedios Theatre Seville 08/03/25