Korean American pianist Soohyung Yoo has performed for audiences
throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe, at prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall in New York, Academy of Music in Philadelphia,
and Salle Cortot in Paris. She has been a prizewinner of several international competitions, including the Bradshaw &
Buono International Piano Competition, International Young Artists Piano Competition, Pinault International Competition, and
Artist International Presentations, which resulted to a successful debut recital at Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall in 2009.
Soohyung began her piano
studies in Korea at the age of 7, and continued her studies in the United States with Eleanor Sokoloff until her entrance
to the prestigious Eastman School of Music. She received her Bachelors and Masters degrees at Eastman under the guidance
of Thomas Schumacher, as a recipient of the Howard Hanson Scholarship, Etta Miller Award, and a Graduate Assistant in Accompanying.
She continued her training in Europe through the International Certificate for Piano Artists program held by the Ecole
Normal de Musique de Alfred Cortot and Fondation Belle 'Arte with artistic director Nelson Delle Vigne and president
Phllipe Entremont. She has performed in masterclass with renown pianists such as Alicia DeLarrocha, Lazar Berman, Gary
Graffman, Jerome Lowenthal, and Francois Duchable. Soohyung continued her studies at the University of Maryland
where she obtained her Doctor of Musical Arts degree with Larissa Dedova in December of 2009.
Soohyung has been on the piano faculty at Frederick College, University of Maryland, and has maintained an active
private piano studio. She is currently on the faculty at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and makes her home
in Pasadena, CA with her husband and cat.
