Haeun Moon

Haeun Moon is currently studying violin with Soovin Kim and attends Harvard University. Haeun has won numerous competitions in Texas and performed with orchestras in Texas, Kansas, and Oregon. Haeun has spent past summers attending the Brian Lewis Young Artist Program, the Great Mountains International Music Festival, and the International Summer Academy of Mozarteum University at Salzburg, Austria. In 2017, Haeun was named as the national first prize winner in the Music Teachers National Association Senior Strings Division. In addition, she became the grand prize winner at the 2017 Lynn Harrell Concerto Competition and performed with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at Meyerson Symphony Center. Haeun has also attended the 2017 Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at the Juilliard School. Most recently, Haeun was selected as the concertmaster of 2018 Texas All-State Symphonic Orchestra, and also a recipient of the From the Top’s Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award, in addition to appearing on NPR’s the radio show twice. In 2018, Haeun was also named one of the National YoungArts Winners for Classical Music. In the summer of 2018, she was invited to Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of USA on their tour of Asia, and was invited back in 2019 to tour Europe with the orchestra. Haeun enjoys using her music to reach out to her community. When founded the Mission Waco’s afterschool music program in which she volunteers to teach violin for the underprivileged students. Now, as a founding member of TTS, Haeun is thrilled to teach more students and further the mission of making music more accessible for all. Haeun plays the “Carl Becker and Son 1955” violin, generously loaned by the Honda Violin Trust.