Ashley Yoon

Ashley Yoon is a 21-year-old violinist and a passionate chamber musician from Charleston, SC. She recently graduated from The Juilliard School, studying with Joseph Lin for her bachelor’s degree as recipient of the C.V. Starr and Malino Scholarships. She will begin her master’s degree at the Yale School of Music this fall.

Ashley was recently invited by Charles Neidich to serve as the associate concertmaster of the founding WA Sinfonietta as part of the Artena Foundation. She has been a fellow at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival through the Yale School of Music in the summers of 2024 and 2023. Recently she served as the concertmaster of the Shepherd School Symphony conducted by Jerry Hou, and also served as the concertmaster for the past two years for Yale’s Chorale Week. 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 has won multiple scholarships, including the Barry Goldsmith Scholarship from the Charleston Scholarship Orchestra League. She has performed for Marth Rivers Ingram at the Founders Award, performed with the Piccolo Spoleto Rising Young Star program, and 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. Her dear mentors are the members of the Brentano Quartet, and recently collaborated with members of the Brentano Quartet, Steve Tenebom, and Raman Ramakrishnan. Past festival appearances have included the Taos School of Music (2022), Yellowbarn Young Artists Program, Orford, Music@Pyeonchang (Great Mountains Festival), Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, Morningside Music Bridge, and the Meadowmount School of Music.

Outside of performing, Ashley has a deep interest in law and human rights and hopes to curate a melding of her two worlds. During her time at Juilliard, she served as the group leader for both the Gluck Community Engagement Fellowship and Hire Juilliard Performers, engaging with underserved communities in New York City and with clients such as Rémy Martin Cognac, and a Grammy-award winning artist.