Dr. Yoo began her piano studies in Korea at the age of 7, and continued her studies in the United States with Hugh Sung and Eleanor Sokoloff until her entrance to the prestigious Eastman School of Music. She received her Bachelors and Masters degrees at Eastman in Piano Performance in 2002 and 2004 respectively, under the guidance of Professor Thomas Schumacher, as a recipient of the Howard Hanson Scholarship, Etta Miller Award, and a Graduate Assistant in Accompanying. Upon graduation, she spent one year abroad in Brussels and Paris in the International Certificate for Piano Artists program held by the Ecole Normal de Musique de Alfred Cortot and Fondation Belle 'Arte with artistic director Nelson Delle Vigne and president Phllipe Entremont. She has also coached or have performed in masterclass with renown pianists such as Alicia DeLarrocha, Lazar Berman, Gary Graffman, Jerome Lowenthal, and Francois Duchable.

Dr. Yoo completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at the University of Maryland with Professor Larissa Dedova in December of 2009, with her dissertation topic "Use of Variation and Fugue in Piano Music Following the Classical Period".

Teaching

Soohyung is committed to music education. She has been an active piano teacher for the past five years, where she works with over twenty students of all levels and ages on a weekly basis. She enjoys watching her students grow as musicians and tries to plant in each of them a love for music that will stay with them throughout their lives, but at the same time her teaching stresses proper development in technique and music reading/interpretation, which are crucial in furthering one's development. She has been on the faculty at Frederick Community College, the International School of Music, Musical Expressions, and the University of Maryland.

Dr. Yoo’s piano studio is located at the Upper East Side of Manhattan. At home instruction may also be possible; please contact for further inquiries.