The South Korean violist Yuri Yoon has won awards at numerous competitions, including third prize at the prestigious 9th Yuri Bashmet Viola Competition 2023, first prize at the concert competition of the 14th Busan Maru International Music Festival 2023, as a prize-winner of the 1st Kodály String Competition 2022, first prize at the 2022 Vienna Grand Prize Virtuoso (string category), first prize at the 8th Odin Music Competition (string category), a special prize at the Bärenreiter Praha Music Publisher Prize and second prize at the 57th Beethoven Hradec Competition, as well as second prize at the 1st Oskar Nedbal Competition.
She currently works as a viola section player with the Dresden Philharmonic. Previously, she held a fixed-term contract with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and was a scholarship holder at the Academy of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
She studied with Eunsik Choi at Seoul National University, subsequently continuing her studies with Hariolf Schlichtig at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich, where she completed both her Master’s degree and her masterclass diploma with top marks. She also completed a Master’s degree in String Quartet Chamber Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich under the Quatuor Ébène and Eberhard Feltz.
She has performed chamber music with world-renowned artists including the Quatuor Ébène, Daniel Müller-Schott, Nils Mönkemeyer, Hariolf Schlichtig, Boris Garlitsky, Alexander Sitkovetsky and Antti Siitala.
In 2021, she was selected as a scholarship holder of Villa Musica Rhineland-Palatinate, and in 2022 as a scholarship holder of the YEHUDI MUNUHIN Live Music Now programme. She has taken part in masterclasses with, amongst others, Nobuko Imai, Eberhard Feltz, Rainer Moog, Atar Arad and Lars Anders Tomter. After winning an audition at Villa Musica, she was granted the privilege of playing a violin by Joseph Cavaleri, built in Genoa in 1740, for three years.