Violinist Hyunseok Yoo 유현석

​Hyunseok Yoo was born in 2005 in Seoul, South Korea. From 2017 to 2022, he studied as a pre-college student with Prof. Nam-Yun Kim and Sungsook Kim at the Korea National University of Arts. Since October 2022, he has been studying with Prof. Lena Neudauer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich.

​In 2023, Hyunseok was accepted as a scholarship holder by Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now München e.V. and as a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. Since January 2026, he has been a member of the Orchestra Academy of the Munich Philharmonic.

​For the 2024/25 academic year, he received the Deutschlandstipendium (Germany Scholarship). Furthermore, since June 2024, he has been supported by the Albert Eckstein Foundation, which provides him with a valuable violin made by Lorenzo Carcassi in 1749.
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