Ella Eom, violin

18 year-old violinist Hyerin Ella Eom was born in South Korea and moved to Palisades Park, New Jersey at the age of 6. She attended the Juilliard School’s Pre-College from 2019 to 2024 where she learned under Ms. Elizabeth Chang. She will be attending both Columbia University and Juilliard starting fall 2024 through the BCJ cross-registration program, where she will be studying under Ms. Laurie Smukler.

As a soloist, Hyerin garnered top prizes at local and international competitions, such as the first prizes at the 2021 IGMC, the 2021 Bravura Philharmonic Concerto Competition, the 2023 Adelphi Young Artists Competition in senior division, second place in the strings division at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition, an alternate in the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra Korngold Violin Concerto Competition in 2022, and was a semifinalist in the Stulberg International String Competition 2023. She is also a 2024 YoungArts Winner. She attended Mozarteum Summer Festival in 2019 as a young artist under the tutelage of Pierre Amoyal and attended Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2021 and 2022.

Hyerin is an avid chamber musician as well, and is one of the violinists of the FaMa Quartet, which won 2nd place in the 2022 Coltman Chamber Music Competition junior division and won the Gold Medal at the 2023 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition junior strings division.

In her free time, Ella enjoys snowboarding in the winter and spending time with family and friends.