Musician Bio

Jungah Yoon is the newly appointed principal flutist of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she was a flute fellow at the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. She has performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and the Grand Rapids Symphony.

Ms.Yoon has spent summers at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Tanglewood Music Center, where she worked under the direction of Andris Nelsons, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Dima Slobodeniouk, Thomas Adès, and Thomas Wilkins.

As a soloist, Ms.Yoon has appeared across the United States and Asia. She is a prize winner of prestigious competitions, including the Donald Peck International Competition, the Seattle Young Artist Competition, the Australian Flute Festival Competition, and the Osaka International Competition in Japan. She was also selected as a Woodwind Fellow of the Luminarts Cultural Foundation in Chicago. Ms.Yoon performed as a soloist with the Yale Philharmonia after winning the Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition and appeared at the Prague Spring International Music Competition in Dvorak Hall. Most recently, she gave a solo recital for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago.

In addition to appearance on stage, Ms.Yoon is committed to teaching. She served as affiliate flute faculty at Bradley University in 2024 and taught undergraduate students at Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University from 2022 to 2024 as a teaching assistant.

Ms.Yoon earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Korea National University of Arts, where she graduated early due to academic excellence. She holds a Master of Music degree from Yale School of Music, where she received the Thomas Daniel Nyfenger Prize, awarded to a graduating student who has demonstrated the highest standard of excellence in woodwind playing. She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Bienen School of Music. Her primary teachers include John Thorne, Ransom Wilson, and Joohee Lee.