“Enormously talented, with a terrific temperament and a bouncy effervescent quality.”
The Strad Magazine

Soyoung Yoon is an internationally performing soloist and chamber musician..

Back in 2002, a first prize at the Yehudi Menuhin Competition was the start of Soyoung Yoon’s solo career at the age of seventeen. Additional prizes at Tchaikovsky Competition, the Queen Elisabeth Competition, and the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis were followed by outstanding milestones, such as a 1st prize award at the International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition and debuts at Carnegie Hall and the „Konzerthaus Berlin“.

As a soloist, Soyoung Yoon has performed among others with the „Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen“, NDR North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Soloists and Zurich Chamber Orchestra. She has collaborated with Krzyszstof Penderecki, Ivor Bolton, Krzysztof Urbanski, Maxim Vengerov and Michal Nesterowicz. As a chamber musician, Yoon can already look back on performances in London’s Wigmore Hall and Zurich Tonhalle.

After recording the Tchaikovsky and Sibelius Violin Concertos, Soyoung released her second CD with Piazzolla’s Four Seasons and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s Concerto for Violin and Piano in collaboration with the Korean Chamber Orchestra leading to concerts in Seoul, London, Berlin and NYC.

Soyoung Yoon studied at the National University of the Arts in South Korea and with Zakhar Bron at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and the Zurich University of the Arts. She plays a J. B. Guadagnini violin (ex-Bückeburg) made in Turin 1773.