Music is my lens, a way I perceive and connect with the world.

Genres are like lines drawn on a map—mere conveniences for orientation.

Beyond these boundaries, we are whole, unbroken, and limitless, finding resonance in the spaces where sound and soul unite.

Yeonjoon Yoon is a composer, pianist, and sound artist whose music emerges from the space between tradition and experimentation, form and feeling.

Classically trained yet not confined by it, he creates work that resists categorization—drawing from ambient, folk, electronic, and Korean traditional sound worlds to explore repetition, resonance, and release.

He sees music not as a product, but as a way of listening—to the world, to others, and to himself.

Yoon’s recent work includes the Études: Triptych series, an evolving suite for piano and electronics, and Um움, a cross-cultural collaboration premiered at the Barbican Centre. His focus now lies in crafting original sound environments that breathe freely across disciplines, histories, and identities.

Yoon was the first Korean to unanimously win the prestigious Gold Medal at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and was named a Rising Star by BBC Music Magazine. He has won and placed in international piano competitions in the UK, France, Spain, Italy, the United States, and Japan. He has performed at world-renowned venues such as the Seoul Arts Center, New York's Lincoln Center, London's Barbican Centre, and Palau de la Música in Spain. His collaborations include performances with the Fort Worth Symphony, Hastings Philharmonic, Guildhall Symphony, Peabody Sinfonietta, members of the Guarneri and Ying Quartets, Band Jambinai, and the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. Yoon made his Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto appearance with the Konzerthaus Berlin Orchestra in Berlin, featuring his own cadenza in March 2025. He contributed to the arrangement of the tvN drama Maestra and director Myung-se Lee’s film The Killers.

Yoon pursued his classical training at leading institutions, including the Korea National University of Arts Preparatory School, Yewon School, Peabody Preparatory School, Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin (DAAD scholar), all on full scholarships, where he studied with Daejin Kim, Yong Hi Moon, Robert McDonald, Hung-Kuan Chen, Melvin Chen, Ronan O’Hora, and Kirill Gerstein.