Soo C.

General Info

• Certified Music Teacher

  Certified Music Teacher

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• Levels: Beginner to Advanced

• In-Home Lessons: No
• In-Studio Lessons: Yes
• Ages: 5 & up

Subjects Taught

Piano

Education

The Juilliard School - Piano Performance - 2004-2008 (Bachelor's degree received)
The Juilliard School - Piano Performance - 2008-2010 (Master's degree received)

Specialties

building up fundamental knowledge
technique improvement

Lesson Details

Soo loves teaching her students of all ages. She's now been teaching almost for 4 years with the greatest passion. Not only does she love music, she also loves interacting with people and sharing her passion about music with everybody! She has a set of curriculum for beginners but for more advanced students she comes up with new ways that fit each individuals.
For the past 6 years, she's been studying with Robert McDonald, who's now world-renowned pianist/teacher, at The Juilliard School. ... Under the theory of Dorothy Taulman, she's very well trained with this particular technique which helped her a lot as a professional pianist. This technique is based on how our body works and helps to prevent from injuring our hands which happens quiet often to many of musicians these days.
Yeon is very friendly and has a outgoing personality that people can approach her with comfort. She also makes sure that every one of her students gets a chance to perform regardless of the level of their playing. Occasionally she offers her livingroom in her apartment as one of the performing venues for her students, so all of the music-lovers get to experience what it feels like to be a performing artist!

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About

A native Korean, Soo Yeon is an active solo and chamber musician.

 Soo Yeon is an honor graduate of the Peabody Conservatory in 2003. During her years at Peabody, she was the winner of many auditions and given opportunities to perform at various venues at the institution and other venues in the Washington D.C region. In the year 2003, she won the Concerto Competition and performed Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3, celebrating the grand opening of the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall. Upon ... her graduation with many scholarships and prizes, she was the fourth prize winner in the Missouri Southern International Piano Competition and first prize winner in the two-piano ensemble category in the New York Piano Competition. In 2009 she was named the 3rd prize winner of the Kingsville Young Performers Competition. Soo Yeon has a wide range of violin-piano repertoire and performs with numerous violinists in the states.

 Yeon has participated in the Aspen Music Festival and Banff Piano Masterclass, where she studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky, Ann Schien, Marc Durand, Julian Martin, and Angela Chang.

After finishing her Bachelor of Arts, in the year of 2010 she finished her Masters degree at The Juilliard School under the direction of Robert McDonald

I'm ready to take the greatest music journey with all of you! just follow the flow with me :)

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