Soo Bae, cello

www.soobae.com

Winner, 2005 Concert Artists Guild International Competition

• Winner, 2006 Adam International Cello Festival & Competition, New Zealand
• Winner, 2006 Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank National Competition

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.” In 2006, 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. Earlier that same year, she became the first Canadian ever awarded a prize at the Adam International Cello Festival & Competition in New Zealand.

Ms. Bae begins the 2007-08 season as featured soloist with the Asian Youth Orchestra for its summer 2007 tour, performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations under the baton of Okku Kamu. Commencing at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall, this eight concert tour includes performances in Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo. Her North American concerto engagements during 2007-08 include the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, Scottsdale Symphony, Wartburg Symphony (IA), Ohio Valley Symphony, and Toronto’s Canadian Youth Symphony and Korean Canadian Symphony.

Featured 2007-08 recitals are the Telus Theatre in Alberta, Canada, the Asociación Nacional de Conciertos in Panama City and the CAG series at Long Island’s Patchogue Theatre. 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), as well as concerto performances with the National Arts Center Orchestra of Canada and the Christchurch Symphony in New Zealand.

In early 2008 Soo Bae records 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.

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. Ms. Bae tours regularly with “Music from Marlboro” tours throughout the US, and she has appeared at numerous chamber music festivals including Marlboro, Yellow Barn, Sarasota, Orford and Verbier, Switzerland.

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 Geneva Conservatory in New York City and the Angelo 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.