Soyoung Yoon

Enormously talented, with a terrific temperament and a bouncy effervescent quality After winning the first prize at the prestigious 14th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition 2011 in Poznań, Poland, Soyoung Yoon (b. 1984) is widely recognized as one of the greatest violinists of her generation. After beginning violin lessons at age five, she rap­idly rose to stardom in her native Korea, winning the Music Chun-chu Competition, the Seoul Sym­phony Competition, the Republic of Korea Youth Music Competition, and the Unpa Music Award.