A master violinist who is also known as the \u201cMaestro on Wheelchair\u201d will be the featured performer of a free concert on Saipan right after the New Year\u2019s Day celebration.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis concert is an encouragement for all residents of the CNMI due to Super Typhoon Yutu. It\u2019s free and everyone is welcome,\u201d he told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s Faculty String Quartet. Cha would be performing on Saipan with pianist Hye Yeon Hwang.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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