SUNGAH MIN has been playing with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra since 2001 and earned her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Maryland at College Park, where she studied with Daniel Foster of the National Symphony and Michael Tree of the Guarneri String Quartet. She earned a Master degree from Boston’s New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied with James Dunham of the Cleveland String Quartet, and a Bachelor’s from Ewha Women’s University in Korea.

As a highly accomplished violist, she has performed in numerous solo recitals and at festivals such as National Orchestra Institute, the Bowdoin Summer Festival in Maine, Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Music festival, the North Carolina School of the Arts Festival. She has appeared in various chamber music concerts including performances at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater and Millennium stage, the Sumner museum, Netherland and Korean Embassies, and the Blair House of the President’s Guest House. She was a winner of Montpelier Cultural Arts Center Recital Series Competition and Friday Morning Music Club Concert Series. She was also a winner of the Rising Starts Concert Series Competition and chosen as a recitalist for Concerts at the Alden which was supported by Arts Council of Fairfax County, Virginia.

Dr. Min brings over 17 years of professional teaching experience in violin and viola, and loves working with students of all ages and abilities. She served as a conductor of the Global Mission Church Youth Orchestra, World Mission Youth Orchestra, and taught at the DC youth Orchestra. She was a music faculty at the Center of Arts of the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland for several years, where she developed a customized teaching method tailored to each student’s individual needs. She also served as a judge for Asian American International Music Competition. Currently, she is a member of the Artistic Council with the New-Life Foundation Youth Orchestra, whose mission is to help children who are musically talented, but do not have the financial resources to further their music skills.