Winner, 2005 Concert Artists Guild International Competition
Winner, 2006 Adam International Cello Festival & Competition, New Zealand
Winner, 2006 Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank National Competition

Canadian cellist Soo Bae, winner of the 2005 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, has been praised by The New Yorker as “superb” and by The Strad for “crisp incisive technique.” In 2006, the Canada Council of the Arts awarded her First Prize in its Instrument Bank Competition, resulting in a three-year loan of the ca. 1696 Bonjour Stradivari cello. Earlier that same year, she became the first Canadian ever awarded a prize at the Adam International Cello Festival & Competition in New Zealand.   

An avid chamber musician who thrives on innovative collaborations, Ms. Bae recently performed with jazz clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera and violinist/composer Mark O’Connor and has played with members of the Guarneri and Juilliard string quartets.  Ms. Bae tours regularly with “Music from Marlboro” tours throughout the US, and she has appeared at numerous chamber music festivals including Marlboro, Yellow Barn, Sarasota, Orford and Verbier, Switzerland. 

Born in Seoul, Korea, Soo Bae began her cello studies at the age of six and moved to Toronto two years later, where she enrolled at the Royal Conservatory of Music.  She received her Bachelor of Music from The Curtis Institute of Music and her Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School.  Ms. Bae currently teaches at the Geneva Conservatory in New York City and the Angelo Mission Ensemble in New Jersey (of which she is founder and director), and she also teaches cello at The Juilliard School as assistant to Joel Krosnick