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Winner, 2005 Concert Artists Guild International Competition
Visit our YouTube page for video on Soo! Canadian cellist Soo Bae, winner of the 2005 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, has been praised by The New Yorker as “superb” and by The Strad for “crisp incisive technique.” Ms. Bae was selected by Musical America as “New Artist of the Month” (March 2009) on Musicalamerica.com. In September 2009, her passion and dedication in spreading the joy of music was recognized when The McGraw-Hill Companies honored her with the $10,000 Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach. In 2006, she became the first Canadian ever awarded a prize at the Adam International Cello Festival & Competition in New Zealand. Later that same year, the Canada Council of the Arts awarded her First Prize in its Instrument Bank Competition, resulting in a three-year loan of the ca. 1696 Bonjour Stradivari cello. Current concerto engagements feature Soo Bae as guest soloist with the Tacoma Symphony, Minnesota Sinfonia and University of Chicago Symphony in the US, and in her native Canada, Orchestra London, the Oakville Symphony, Kingston Symphony and Sinfonia Toronto. Recent solo orchestral concerts include the National Arts Center Orchestra of Canada, Christchurch Symphony in New Zealand, New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, Scottsdale Symphony, Wartburg Symphony (IA), Ohio Valley Symphony, and Toronto’s Canadian Youth Symphony and Korean Canadian Symphony. She was also featured soloist with the Asian Youth Orchestra for its summer 2007 tour, performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations under the baton of Okko Kamu. Commencing at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, this eight concert tour included performances in Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo. Featured recitals include Washington Performing Arts Society (in a duo recital with violinist Asmira Woodward Page), Festival Place in Alberta, and Symphony Space’s Thalia Theatre as part of CAG’s New Works Series, as well as an appearance at Barbes Bar and Performance Space in Brooklyn. Recent touring highlights include recitals at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (Urbana, IL), Northeastern Illinois University’s “Jewel Box” Series and Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute (Utica, NY), the Telus Theatre in Alberta, Canada, the Asociación Nacional de Conciertos in Panama City and the CAG series at Long Island’s Patchogue Theatre. Soo Bae recently recorded her debut CD for the Naxos label featuring all twelve solo caprices of cellist-composer Alfredo Piatti, which were compared to the Bach Cello Suites by the great Yehudi Menuhin, set for release in 2010. An avid chamber musician who thrives on innovative collaborations, Ms. Bae recently performed with jazz clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera and violinist/composer Mark O’Connor and has played with members of the Guarneri and Juilliard string quartets. In 2009-10, she also collaborates in duo recitals with violinist Jessica Lee (a fellow CAG winner). Ms. Bae tours regularly with “Music from Marlboro” tours throughout the US, and has appeared at numerous chamber music festivals including Marlboro, Yellow Barn, Sarasota, Orford and Verbier. Born in Seoul, Korea, Soo Bae began her cello studies at the age of six and moved to Toronto two years later, where she enrolled at the Royal Conservatory of Music. She received her Bachelor of Music from The Curtis Institute of Music and her Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School. Ms. Bae currently teaches at the St. Thomas Choir School in New York City and the Angelos Mission Ensemble in New Jersey (of which she is founder and director), and she also teaches cello at The Juilliard School as assistant to Joel Krosnick.
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Bae, cello
