Flutist MyungJu Yeo has performed and taught across the United States, Europe, and Asia for nearly two decades. Her diverse performance career includes appearances in a variety of roles performing repertoire spanning centuries. As an orchestral musician, Ms. Yeo is principal flute of the Marin Symphony and Symphony San Jose, and regularly performs with many of the Bay Area’s leading ensembles, including the San Francisco Symphony and San Francesco Opera Orchestra. Ms. Yeo has toured Germany with the Bachakademie Stuttgart Orchestra under Helmuth Rilling and the Moritzburg Festival Orchestra, and is an alumna of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the training orchestra of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
As soloist, Ms. Yeo has recently appeared with Symphony San Jose and Marin Symphony, where her performance was praised for its “purity of tone…and exquisite phrasing…” (Classical Sonoma). Other concert appearances have taken Ms. Yeo across Austria, France, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, South Korea, and the United States.
Ms. Yeo has participated in many of the world’s most prestigious international flute competitions, including the Munich ARD International Music Competition (Germany), the Carl Nielsen International Music Competition (Denmark), and the Prague Spring International Music Competition (Czech Republic), and was selected as one of only twelve semi-finalists in the latter two.
Ms. Yeo began musical studies in her native South Korea and attended the Busan High School of Arts. At the age of 17, she relocated to Vienna, Austria to study at the renowned Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien, where she earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with highest honors as a student of Hansgeorg Schmeiser, former principal flute of the Vienna Volksopera. Ms. Yeo also pursued graduate studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where she worked with Sophie Cherrier and Vincent Lucas.