Sangmi Yoon

Sangmi Yoon started learning the piano at the age of seven in Korea. By the age of ten, she started winning prizes in competitions including the Art Festival of the State Competition and the Seoul Competition in Korea. This was the real starting point of her musical life. After she immigrated to the United States, she continued her piano studies with Ji Eun Lee and started to expand her musical career by winning prizes in competitions such as the U.S. Youth Piano Competition of Hymns in Washington D.C. and the MSMTA E.R. Davis Collegiate Piano Competition in Maryland. She also won the third prize and Best Required Piece in the 24th International Young Artists Piano Competition, in Washington D.C., in which she was invited to perform at the State of the Arts Cultural Series and the U.S. State Department. Ms. Yoon also premiered a composition by Li-Ly Chang, Capriccio for piano solo at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage.

Ms. Yoon studied with Dr. Hsiu-Hui Wang at Howard Community College for three years where she was the recipient of the HCC Rose Buck-Lew Family Piano Endowment Scholarship. Ms. Yoon continued to study with Dr. Hsiu-Hui Wang at Goucher College where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Music and the Fine and Performing Arts Scholarship (FPAS). She received her Master of Music degree and Graduate Performance Diploma in piano performance from Longy School of Music, and she studied with the Dean of the Conservatory, Wayman Chin. While at Longy, she was selected for the honor to have private lessons with the internationally known pianist Peter Serkin, who gave private lessons to a select group of advanced Longy Conservatory piano majors.

Ms. Yoon has collaborated and performed in numerous chamber groups. She is also active in accompanying for various types of solo instruments and for choirs. Ms. Yoon started to expand her teaching experiences while she was living in Boston for three years. She also taught at the Jubilee Christian Music School in Tennessee as an intern during the summer of 2015. After a long journey, Ms. Yoon returned to Howard Community College, her ‘home school’ to share her stories with her students and community through her teaching and performances.