YooJin Jang is a winner of the 2017 Concert Artists Guild Competition and First Prize winner of the 2016 Sendai International Music Competition in Japan. Recent and forthcoming concerto performances include appearances with the Columbus Symphony and with the symphony orchestras of Chautauqua, Dubuque, DuPage, Roswell, and University of Chicago. In recital, highlights include YooJin’s recent Carnegie Hall debut and concerts at Jordan Hall and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert series, and Rockefeller University. A passionate chamber musician, YooJin has performed with Caramoor’s Rising Stars and toured with Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute and Musicians From Marlboro.

YooJin has performed with her native country’s KBS Symphony and Seoul Philharmonic, as well as with the Budapest Festival Orchestra led by Ivan Fischer, Bulgaria National Radio Symphony, Sofia Philharmonia, Erato Ensemble, Tokyo Symphony, Osaka Symphony, and Spain’s Extremadura Orchestra; and recitals in Japan in Sendai, Nagoya and in Tokyo.

YooJin released two albums: live performances of the Mendelssohn and Stravinsky Violin Concertos with the Sendai Philharmonic and Junichi Hirokami and a recital disc featuring music of Mendelssohn, Stravinsky, Grieg and Sibelius. Her first album, Korean Young Musicians, was released on the KBS label, in cooperation with Aulos media & KBS Classic FM. 

In 2013, she won Japan’s 4th International Munetsugu Violin Competition, which included the loan of the 1697 ‘Rainville’ Stradivari violin. She was also a top prize winner at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, the Michael Hill International Violin Competition, and the Yehudi Menuhin Competition.

YooJin is also a co-founder of The Kallaci String Quartet, which made its international debut at the Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, Korea and the Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music. Recognized for her creative work in chamber music, she won the 2011 Borromeo String Quartet Guest Artist Award, and in 2009 she was awarded the Schloss Weikersheim Scholarship as part of the London String Quartet Competition. YooJin has also participated in the Marlboro and Ravinia Festivals, where she worked with artists such as Menahem Pressler, Dénes Várjon, and Peter Wiley.

Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Violin at the Eastman School of Music.