Ashley Yoon is a senior at Juilliard and avid chamber musician
Ashley Yoon is now a 19-year-old violinist and avid chamber musician from Charleston, SC. She is currently in her senior year, studying with Joseph Lin at The Juilliard School for her bachelor’s degree. Ashley was recently a fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival through the Yale School of Music in the summer of 2023. The protean process of music-making with her dear colleagues at Norfolk and the Taos School of Music, has led her to develop and reaffirm her deep love of chamber music. Through chamber music, she has met lifelong friends and mentors such as the Brentano Quartet and Bob McDonald. Similar to her “ultimate musical goal” from her AQF artistic statement at 15 years old, Ashley hopes to create a fulfilling and poetical life through the human connections she makes, inside and outside of music.
Ashley is the recipient of the C.V. Starr and Malino Scholarships at Juilliard. She also served as the concertmaster for Yale’s Chorale Week in 2023. Her chamber group had the honor of performing Brahms’ Sextet multiple times at the MET Museum through Juilliard's ChamberFest. She won the American Protégé International Competition of Romantic Music and was invited to play at Carnegie Hall in December 2019. Ashley is also a winner of the DSO Concerto Competition and had the opportunity to perform the Saint Saens Violin Concerto with the Dekalb Symphony Orchestra. She was one of the laureates of the 2018 Winston Salem Symphony Orchestra Competition, 2019 Augusta Symphony Concerto Competition, and was a finalist of the 2019 HHSO Concerto Competition.
Ashley is a recipient of the Anthony Quinn Foundation Award in 2020. Ashley has won multiple scholarships and the Barry Goldsmith Scholarship from the Charleston Scholarship Orchestra League. She has performed for Marth Rivers Ingram at the Founders Award. She also has performed with the Piccolo Spoleto Rising Young Star program. She has played Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. She was also awarded the King-Lancaster Orchestral award, the Hiram Curry award, and the Donald Shelter award by the Charleston Music Club.
Ashley has studied with Juliette Kang, Younguk Kim, Hye-Jin Kim, Ara Gregorian, and Yuriy Bekker. She has attended the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival as a recipient of the Fishman Family Foundation, the Taos School of Music, Yellowbarn, Orford, Music@Pyeonchang (Great Mountains Festival), Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, Morningside Music Bridge, and the Meadowmount School of Music.
Outside of music, Ashley enjoys spending time in nature, swimming, and being a bookworm. She continues to have interest in law and humanities.