SEOYEON IM

Seoyeon, better known to many as ‘V.OLIN’, is one of the biggest violin influencers to have emerged in South Korea. Now based in New York, she’s built up a reputation as a rising star in the world of jazz violin, with over 50,000 followers on social media and a YouTube view count well surpassing 5.2M in 2022.

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Seoyeon attended Queens College(CUNY) in NYC, studying for a Master of Music in Jazz Studies. She also studied classical music at Sungshin Women’s University and at Berklee College of Music.

 

Seoyeon received a Scholarship from the Berklee College of Music in 2016, where she was trained by Jazz violinist Rob Thomas, Grammy award-winning violinist Darol Anger, Grammy-nominated Jazz violinist Sara Caswell, and 4-time Grammy-winning cellist Eugene Friesen.

 

Seoyeon’s work includes projects with award-winning vocalist Peter Eldridge and pianist Kenny Werner, where they recorded an album titled ‘Somewhere’. She has also collaborated with award-winning pianist Tigran Hamasyan and Grammy-winning tango pianist Pablo Ziegler, and was invited to perform at the American String Teachers Association in Atlanta.

 

Throughout the course of the pandemic, Seoyeon had the opportunity to be a panel judge for the ‘Soundtrack Contest’ by Seven Stars Art In Action, based in Sharon, VT. She also recorded the track ‘Lost In Japan’ with the renowned Dallas String Quartet.

 

While much of her performance career has revolved around classical music, Seoyeon now finds herself exploring the ‘Gypsy Jazz’ world, where she is routinely playing gigs in the New York area.