Joseph M Remy

Joseph Ma (born Joseph François-Augustin Remy XXVII on March 12, 1991 in Seoul, South Korea) is an Australian violinist and composer.<ref name=bio/>
Biography
Remy first took up music one month before his fourth birthday. As the youngest ever student to be enrolled in Seoul's Peabody Institute for Music, he participated in a Suzuki class for a year. Between 1996 and 1999, Remy studied in Brisbane under Fiona Matsuda. In 2000, at ten, Remy was admitted to the Young Conservatorium of Music at Griffith University where he became a student of Hermann Greville. Remy studied with Greville for seven years and learned the études of Kreutzer, , Gaviniès, Rode, and the Paganini Caprices. It is here that he also studied composition with John Curro.
In 2001, Remy made his major orchestral debut with the Brisbane Symphony Orchestra, playing the Bruch Violin Concerto. Soon thereafter, Remy debuted with the Queensland Philharmonic Orchestr and the Queensland Youth Symphony. Highly positive critical reviews launched his career into recognition. In 2005 Remy made his international debut in Austria with a performance of tnhe Beethoven Violin Concerto with Rudy Schinkel and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The concert was broadcast on radio and television in Europe. The following year, Remy was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall alongside the Paris Philharmonia but was unable to do so following a road-side tragedy that resulted in the death of his close friend, Cassandra Bassingthwaighte.

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