Ye Jin Min, violin

Ye Jin Min is a third-year Violin Fellow at the New World Symphony and a doctor of musical arts candidate at Yale School of Music. Born and raised in South Korea, she completed her undergraduate studies in Australia at the Sydney Conservatorium under Professor Goetz Richter and a master’s degree at Yale University with Professor Syoko Aki, where she received the Yale Alumni award. She also spent a year in Germany, receiving tutelage from Professor Ulf Hoelscher.

Ye Jin has performed extensively as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. She has performed in the U.S., Germany, Australia, Austria, Switzerland, Thailand and South Korea. Most recently, she was a fellow for Davos Music Festival 2022, Sarasota Music Festival 2022 and Bowdoin International Music Festival 2021. While in Australia, she was a member of the Sydney Symphony‘s Sinfonia Orchestra. She also was a first prize winner of the Kendall National Violin Competition and Animato International Violin Competition.

Ye Jin is passionate about performing contemporary and 20-century music and music by underrepresented composers. Her doctoral thesis is about Australian violinist Alma Moodie and music dedicated to her, including the works of Max Reger, Ernst Krenek and Eduard Erdmann. She participated in various concerts and projects, including a concert with Caroline Shaw and Gabriele Kahane, recording music of Ulysses Kay and Louise Farrenc for New Muses Project and also has her own project ‘Re:present.’ Ye Jin occasionally composes as well, and most recently she premiered her Hymn for Violin and Cello in St. Theodul Kirche during Davos Music Festival 2022.