About
Cellist Ye-eun Heo is considered one of the promising young cellists, active chamber musicians of her generation. She was born in Seoul in 1992 and received her first cello lessons at age six. She graduated from the Seoul National University, with Prof. Chungsim Baek and Jungran Lee. She has been influenced by many artists through masterclasses with David Geringas, Alto Noras, Danjulo Ishizaka, Wen-Sinn Yang, Jian Wang and Myunghwa Chung.
She is currently studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Cologne under tutelage of Johannes Moser and also studying in master of chamber music at the Musikhochschule Lübeck with Heime Müller as a member of the Esmé Quartet.
She won top prizes at the many national music competitions in South Korea since a young age. Her great passion for chamber music has led her to attend many international festivals and play in concert venues such as the Kumho Art Hall and Chamber Music Hall of the Seoul Art Center, the Great Mountains Music Festival and McGill International String Quartet Academy in Montreal as a member of the YUL String Quartet from 2012 to 2015. She has been kindly supported by Kumho Asiana Foundation and Art Sylvia Foundation in Seoul 2013.
Since 2016, Ye-eun plays in Esmé Quartet, and the quartet won the 3rd prize at the 2017 Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition.
Recently, the quartet had great success in winning the first prize and four special prizes at the prestigious London Wigmore
Hall String Quartet Competition in April 2018.