Dr. Yue Sun
Assistant Professor of Upper Strings
Violin/Viola
Northern Lights String Orchestra
Fine Arts 209
(907) 474-6576
uaf-music@alaska.edu
Office Hours:
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Chinese violinist Yue Sun has been applauded for her “stringent artistic attitude and creative technical innovation” by New York Lounge of SinoVision. She was also hailed by Jiangnan City Daily for playing “fabulously and splendidly,” and by the Nanchang Daily for her ability to “fuse her passionate performance with unparalleled musical charm.” Modern Women in China called her “the most shining rising star.”
As a soloist, Ms. Sun has performed recitals throughout America, Europe, and Asia
at prestigious venues such as Shanghai Concert Hall and the Sanders Theater at Harvard.
She has also been invited to attend and perform as a part of numerous music festivals,
including Hotchkiss Chamber Music Festival, Music Festival of Banff Centre, Schleswig
Holstein Music Festival, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music, and others. As an active orchestral
violinist, Ms. Sun was selected as the concertmaster and associate concertmaster for
numerous orchestras such as the Latin GRAMMY® Award Orchestra of the Americas, the
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra, and performed at prestigious venues such
as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Konzerthaus Berlin, and
National Grand Theater of China with renowned musicians such as Alan Gilbert, Christoph
Eschenbach, David Geringas, Joshua Bell, James Gaffigan, Midori Goto, Ivan Fischer,
Semyon Bychkov, and Valery Gergiev. Christoph Eschenbach praised her as “a
rare talent of roaring flame and infectious passion.”
Ms. Sun earned her Master of Music in Violin Performance from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Ida Kavafian on full scholarship. Her Bachelor’s degrees in both psychology and violin performance are from Bard College with full scholarship. As an active chamber musician, Ms. Sun has invited to collaborate with Emerson String Quartet, Peter Willey, Steven Tenenbom, Paul Watkins, Jennifer Frautschi, Joan Tower, Steven Mackey, and other renowned musicians. Ms. Sun is a member of DEKA String Quartet. With the quartet, she has been closely mentored by the Emerson String Quartet and David Finckel for the past half decade. From 2019 to 2020, her quartet has served as Artists-in-Residence through the SUNY Rockefeller Institute of Government.
Ms. Sun graduated from Stony Brook University with a Doctorate of Music Arts. At Stony Brook, she studied with Hagai Shaham, Philip Setzer, Jennifer Frautschi, and Arnaud Sussmann. In January 2017, her DVD album “Passion” for 8 premiers of Chinese solo violin works was released and published by Shanghai Audio and Video Publishing House. Shortly after, the album was published by Shanghai Music House with the sheet music, and the CD version of the same album was distributed globally in the United States by Skillman Music in January 2018. Ms. Sun has been playing with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra since 2019, and she will join ķƵ College of Liberal Arts as Assistant Professor of Music-Upper Strings this coming August. In her spare time, she likes to cook and make interesting bubble teas.