Yeyeong Jin

Yeyeong Jin was born in Seoul, South Korea, and began playing the violin at the young age of two. At the age of nine, she was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Ida Kavafian. Currently, she attends the Juilliard School as a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship, studying with Itzhak Perlman and Li Lin.

Yeyeong Jin was awarded the first prize and the prize for the best chamber music at the International Violin Competition Michael Hill 2023. She has also won top prizes at the International Violin Competition Zhuhai 2022 and the International String Competition Stulberg 2020.

She plays on a violin by Domenico Montagnana (Venice, ca. 1735), generously provided to her by Rare Violins In Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative.