Dr. Eunae Koh

Violinist Eunae Koh enjoys an established career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. Since 2019, she has been an active member of the Grammy Award-winning Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, where she regularly performs as a featured soloist, most notably leading performances of Haydn’s G Major Concerto, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, B minor Concerto, and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. Besides performing, she served on the Artistic Vision Committee, shaping the orchestra's season programming, and as one of the first Creative Leads, she curated "Romantic Landscapes with Eunae Koh," a chamber music program lauded for its programming and emotional depth by the Twin Cities Pioneer Press. During the summers, Eunae serves on the faculty at the Yellow Barn Music Festival’s Young Artists Program.

Originally from South Korea, Eunae made her concerto debut at 9 years old with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra and quickly gained recognition by winning numerous national competitions. Following her Special Prize award at the Isang Yun International Competition in 2011, her international profile began to rise. After moving to the United States in 2013, she made her U.S. debut performing the Brahms Concerto 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.

Eunae has performed in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Jordan Hall in the US and appeared internationally in Germany, New Zealand, Japan and Korea. She soloed with the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra, New England Symphony Orchestra, Sendai Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Korean Chamber Orchestra and others. Her artistry has garnered attention from major media including ArteTV, KBS Classic FM, Korea Times, New Zealand Herald, WCRB and Star Tribune.

Prior to SPCO, Eunae served as concertmaster of the Hwaum Boston Chamber Orchestra and guest concertmaster of the New York Classical Players and the Symphony in C. In addition, she has collaborated with renowned artists Joshua Bell, Tabea Zimmermann, Richard Goode, Anne-Marie McDermott, Donald Weilerstein, Steven Mackey and with ensembles including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, A Far Cry, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and Chameleon Arts Ensemble.

Eunae earned her Doctor of Musical Arts at the Manhattan School of Music under the guidance of Mark Steinberg. Her dissertation, "The Violin Poème as Hybrid Genre," delves into the works of Ysaÿe, Chausson, and Bloch. She obtained a Master of Music and Graduate Diploma with the Presidential Scholarship at the New England Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University. During this time, she taught undergraduate and graduate students as a teaching assistant of Donald Weilerstein and Young Uck Kim.