Award-winning violinist Eunae Koh enjoys a fulfilling career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. As an active member of the Grammy Award-winning Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra since 2019, Ms. Koh displays her artistry through various outlets. A regular featured soloist, she most recently led the orchestra in Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. She serves on the Artistic Vision Committee to help shape and influence the season programming, and as one of the first Creative Leads, she curated a complete chamber music program, “Romantic Landscapes with Eunae Koh,” featuring forgotten women composers of the 19th century. During the summers, she serves on the faculty at Yellow Barn Music Festival’s Young Artists Program where she coaches chamber music, teaches private lessons, and assists the administration.

Originally from South Korea, Ms. Koh made her concerto debut at the age of 9 with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra and won numerous national competitions. After taking the Special Prize at the Isang Yun International Competition in 2011, she began to build her international career. Soon after coming to the United States in 2013, she made her U.S. debut performing the Brahms Concerto in Jordan Hall with the New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra. Her performance of the same concerto at the Michael Hill International Competition was acclaimed for its “beauty, bending the world to its will,” culminating in Second Prize and Chamber Music Prize awards.

In addition to the United States, Ms. Koh has performed in many countries including Germany, New Zealand, Japan, and Korea. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, New England Symphony Orchestra, Colby Symphony Orchestra and Korean Chamber Orchestra. Her performances were featured in major media including ArteTV, KBS Classic FM, Korea Times in Korea, WCRB in Boston, Star Tribune in Minnesota, and many others.

Ms. Koh led the Haffner Sinfonietta as concertmaster for four years in Boston and has appeared as guest concertmaster of the New York Classical Players and Symphony in C, leading the Beethoven Project with acclaimed pianist HaeSun Paik and the Carnegie Hall performance, respectively. In addition, she has collaborated with renowned artists such as Donald Weilerstein, Steven Mackey, Anthony Marwood and performed with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, A Far Cry, and Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players.

Eunae Koh recently earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Mark Steinberg. Her dissertation “The Violin Poème as Hybrid Genre” examines one of the most popular genres in violin repertoire, Poème, exploring three different works by Ysaÿe, Chausson and Bloch. She earned a Master of Music and Graduate Diploma with the Presidential Scholarship at the New England Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music from the Seoul National University. During this time, she taught undergraduate and graduate students as a teaching assistant of Donald Weilerstein and Young Uck Kim.