Cellist Alice Yoo has performed extensively throughout the US and abroad as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She has collaborated with distinguished artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Midori, Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashian, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Anthony Marwood. Festival appearances include performances at the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Music Institute, Music@Menlo, Caramoor Rising Stars, Perlman Music Program, and The Banff Centre; as well as a residency at Yellow Barn Music Festival. Alice has won top prizes in the Cleveland Cello Society Scholarship Competition, Holland-America Music Society Competition, Schadt International String Competition, Klein International String Competition, and National Symphony Orchestra’s Young Soloists’ Competition. She was a founding member of the Vox Piano Trio, and is currently a member of Ensemble U-HAC and Caramoor Virtuosi.

Alice has participated in master classes with Yo-Yo Ma, Steven Isserlis, Frans Helmerson, Leon Fleisher, György Kurtág, Anner Bylsma, Boris Pergamenschikow, Claude Frank, and Gary Hoffman. She earned a bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory, where she studied with Paul Katz; a post-graduate diploma from the Royal Northern College of Music; and a master’s degree from the University of Southern California as a student of Ralph Kirshbaum. She is on the cello faculty of The Bard College Conservatory of Music’s Preparatory Division. As part of her Academy program, Alice teaches in Brooklyn at Edward R. Murrow High School.