Violist Yuri Yoon has been honoured at numerous competitions, including
third prize at the world-famous 9th Yuri Bashmet Viola Competition in 2023,
first prize at the 2023 Concerto Competition of the 14th Busan Maru International Music
Festival, laureate of the 1st Kodály String Competition in 2022, first prize (strings section) at the 2022 Vienna Grand Prize Virtuoso, first prize (strings section) at the 8th Odin Music Competition, a special prize Kodály String Competition in 2022, first prize (strings
section) at the 2022 Vienna Grand Prize Virtuoso, first prize (strings section) at the 8th
Odin Music Competition, a special prize ‘Bärenreiter Praha Music Publisher Prize’ and
second prize at the 57th Beethoven Hradec Competition, second prize at the 1st Oskar
Nedbal Competition, etc.
She was a scholarship holder of the Academy of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
And she is currently working as a tutti musician with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, previously
she worked on a temporary contract with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden.
She studied with Eunsik Choi at Seoul National University. She then continued her
studies with Hariolf Schlichtig at the Munich University of Music and Theatre
, where she completed her master's degree and master class (very good, 1.0).
She also completed a master's degree in string quartet chamber music at the
Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with the Quatuor Ébène and Eberhard Feltz.
She has actively played chamber music with world-renowned artists such as Ebene Quartet, Daniel
Müller-Schott, Nils Mönkemeyer, Hariolf Schlichtig, Boris Garlitsky, Alexander Sitkovetsky,
Antti Siitala, etc.
In 2021 she was selected as a scholarship holder of the Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz, in 2022 as a
scholarship holder of the YEHUDI MUNUHIN Live-Music-Now. And she has also participated and played in masterclasses
such as Nobuko Imai, Eberhard Feltz, Rainer Moog, Atar Arad, Lars Anders Tomter, etc.
She won the Villa Musica audition and was allowed to use a violin by Joseph Cavaleri, made in Genoa in 1740, for three years.