The 2022 Old West Organ Society Summer Series continues with a performance by Jonghee Yoon. Admission is free; donations are gratefully accepted in support of the Society.
Jonghee Yoon is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Sacred Music and Organ
Performance at East Carolina University, and she is organ scholar at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Greenville North Carolina, studying and working with David Arcus. Jonghee graduated from EWHA Woman’s University in Seoul, South Korea and studied organ there with Okjoo Park, and Min-Jung Gaang.
Jonghee is an active musician, and has performed in South Korea, the Netherlands, Hungary, Denmark and the United States. She was selected a Rising Star and played a solo in concert with the Raleigh Symphony. She was invited to play a concert at the Haderslev Cathedral in Denmark. Jonghee has played a solo concert on the St. Paul’s Greenville. She has served as organist at the Daeshin Church in Seoul and has been music director in several musical theatrical productions. She has given a recital for the Nevelson Chapel Recital series in NewYork City. She played her debut recital at St. Peter’s Church in New York City in 2019.
In addition to peforming her solo repertoire, Jonghee has developed an interest in chamber music; she has played continuo in Bach’s Cantata with the Saint Peter’s Bach Collegium and played the solo organ with the Gödi Baroque Ensemble in Hungary. She has played with the Early Music Collective Concert with the ECU Baroque Ensemble, the Bach Birthday concert at St. Paul’s, and is organ accompanist for the ECU Chamber Singers Choir. Jonghee has also performed with Eastern and Western instruments in the chapel of Ewha Women’s University.
She spent a semester in the US studying organ with Bryan Ashley in Boston and Bálint Karosi in New York City, and organ building at the Fisk Shop in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where she observed and participated in pipe making, design, installation, and tuning. These experiences broadened her understanding of the organ and the relationship between instrument and music.
Jonghee took part in masterclasses with Peter Westerbrink in Holland, Christiaan Teeuwsen in Holland and Germany, and Franz Liszt Academy of Music Professor of Organ and improvisation, Pálúr János in Hungary. Participating in these, as well as her experience at the EROI conference in Rochester and the ISO conference in Udine, Italy, had a great appreciation for studying at an institution that provides the instruments and the support needed to play the repertoire on appropriate instruments.