Na-Young Baek
Cello

Winner of the Philadelphia Orchestra Greenfield Competition, cellist Na-Young Baek made her American Debut with the Orchestra in 2000. She was appeared as a soloist with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, DuPage Symphony Orchestra, World Symphony Orchestra, Suwon Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, and the Korean Chamber Ensemble, at major venues such as the Academy House in Philadelphia and the Rheingau Musik Festival in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Ms. Baek has won the fourth prize in the Gyeongnam International Competition (Isang Yun in memoriam), the first prize in the Hudson Valley Philharmonic Competition, and the first prize in the Holland-America Music Society Competition. Also, she was invited to the Verbier Music Academy, Sarasota Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Kronberg Academy, and the International Cello Congress in Manchester, England. Her recitals include the New York Debut recital at the Weill Hall at the Carnegie Hall and the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago.

An avid chamber musician, she was invited and performed at the Marlboro Music Festival, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Isaac Stern Seminar in Israel, and was featured in Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Salle Gaveau in Paris, Cadogan Hall in London, and the NPR's "Performance Today." Recent chamber music concerts include the tours with the "Musicians From Marlboro", the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Alianza String Quartet, and the Metropolis Ensemble.

Korean-born cellist, Ms. Baek was age 15 to be the youngest first prizewinner of its history in the prestigious Choong Ang Times competition in Korea. Also, she won the "Virtuoso Prize" at the first Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in Moscow. At the age of 16, she was accepted to study with Orlando Cole at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She continued her study as a merit-based full scholarship student at the Yale University for the Masters Degree and the Juilliard School for the Artist Diploma program with Aldo Parisot, who awarded her the "Aldo Parisot Prize" in the end of her study with him. Ms. Baek achieved the Doctor of Musical Art degree at the Stony Brook University in May 2006, where she studied and performed with Colin Carr. Her doctorate study consisted a comprehensive repertoire from Biber to Gubaidulina, and her dissertation "Historically Informed Playing of Bach Suite No.5" was based on the comparison of the fifth cello suite with the corresponding g minor suite written for the Lute.

Na-Young is a member of the, the Sejong Soloists, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, and performs on a cello by Giovanni Grancino, C.1656, a loan from the New Jersey Symphony's Golden Age Collection.