USC Trojan Family Magazine - Winter 1998: The Lipsett Proteges: Jennie Choi '99

JENNIE CHOI came under Robert Lipsett’s direct tutelage in her freshman year (“though I’d known him all my life,” she says). Her parents, both of them immigrants from South Korea, had read about Lipsett’s triumphs in the Korean press, particularly with the success of another Korean-American student, Michelle Kim. Choi is the current concertmaster of the USC Symphony, and she has soloed with the San Diego Symphony, the Los Angeles Youth Orchestra and various regional orchestras. She’s the winner for two years running of a competition sponsored by the Musical Merit Foundation of Greater San Diego, each time earning $5,000 as well as a full scholarship to the annual Aspen Music Festival. She has also been concertmaster and soloist with the New York String Orchestra in Carnegie Hall.
A native of San Diego, Choi began studying violin when she was 4. Her family is passionate about music. Her father, who owns a Mission Hills auto repair business, is taking voice lessons and studying Italian, to help in pronouncing words of operatic arias. Her mother takes piano lessons. “They never had money to take lessons in Korea, but they always loved music,” Choi says.




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			JENNIE CHOI came under Robert Lipsett’s direct tutelage in her freshman year (“though I’d known him all my life,” she says). Her parents, both of them immigrants from South Korea, had read about Lipsett’s triumphs in the Korean press, particularly with the success of another Korean-American student, Michelle Kim. Choi is the current concertmaster of the USC Symphony, and she has soloed with the San Diego Symphony, the Los Angeles Youth Orchestra and various regional orchestras. She’s the winner for two years running of a competition sponsored by the Musical Merit Foundation of Greater San Diego, each time earning $5,000 as well as a full scholarship to the annual Aspen Music Festival. She has also been concertmaster and soloist with the New York String Orchestra in Carnegie Hall. A native of San Diego, Choi began studying violin when she was 4. Her family is passionate about music. Her father, who owns a Mission Hills auto repair business, is taking voice lessons and studying Italian, to help in pronouncing words of operatic arias. Her mother takes piano lessons. “They never had money to take lessons in Korea, but they always loved music,” Choi says.

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