About

Yun has established herself as one of Taiwan’s leading young violinists, earning recognition in numerous national and international competitions. Her recent achievements include receiving the 37th Chimei Arts Award, advancing to the semifinal round (top six candidates) of the 2024 Princess Astrid International Music Competition in Norway, and winning first prize in both the 2023 Vienna Mozart Competition and the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Annual Milhaud Competition. She is also participating in the 2026 Quadrennial Indianapolis International Violin Competition and Naumburg International Violin Competition.

Her other accolades include second prize at the 2021 New York International Artists Competition, the Dr. Jerome Gross Prize in Violin from the Cleveland Institute of Music, first prize at the 2013 Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition in Hong Kong, and the top prize in violin solo at the 2015 National Taiwan Student Music Competition. Yun is also the first student in the history of HSNU to win its School Concerto Competition twice, in 2015 and 2017. Additionally, she was the youngest violinist selected for the 2019 Young Talent Cultivation Program of the Taipei City Symphony Orchestra.

As a passionate chamber music performer and orchestra player, Yun has collaborated and performed with many artists including Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Phillip Setzer, Todd Phillips, James Dunham, and Margaret Batjer. She also received the top prizes from chamber music competitions as a member of Kyklos Quartet including 2nd prize in both the 2022 WDAV chamber music competition and the 2022 Glass City competition, and quarter finalist in the 2022 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. Yun has been invited to many prestigious festivals including 2024 Pacific Music Festival, 2023 Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, 2022 Sarasota Music Festival, 2021 & 2022 Taipei Music Academy and Festival (full scholarship and travel grant) and 2021 & 2022 NYSOS, 2018 & 2020 Heifetz International Music Institute (with full scholarship), 2015 Summit Music Festival (with Aaron Rosand) and Chamber Music Society of Taiwan International Music Festival.

Yun recently received her Master’s in Music degree as a recipient of the Juilliard Scholarship and Irene Diamond Fellowship studying with Joel Smirnoff at The Juilliard School. She also completed her Bachelor’s in Music degree as a recipient of the Starling Foundation full scholarship studying with Jaime Laredo, Jan Sloman and Malcolm Lowe at Cleveland Institute of Music with full scholarship. Beginning this fall, she will begin pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Stony Brook University.

Orchestras that she had cooperated with as a soloist include National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, New Arts Symphony Orchestra, TSO (Taipei Symphony Orchestra), HSNUSO (HSNU Symphony Orchestra), 3E Youth Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, and The Sun Taipei Youth Orchestra.