About Me

Chinese violinist Yue Sun has been 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.” Ms. Sun was applauded as “the most shining rising star” by Modern Women in China, and “New York Lounge” of SinoVision has interviewed her and praised her for her “stringent artistic attitude and creative technical innovation”.

Ms. Sun has performed recitals and concerts throughout America, Europe, and Asia at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Konzerthaus Berlin, the Sanders Theater at Harvard and Shanghai Concert Hall. She was selected as the concertmaster and associate concertmaster for the Latin GRAMMY® Award Orchestra of the Americas, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra, Boulder Symphony Orchestra and others. Christoph Eschenbach praised her as “a rare talent of roaring flame and infectious passion.”

​ In January 2017, her DVD album “Passion” solo violin works was released by Shanghai Audio and Video Publishing House. The album showcases world premieres of Chinese folk-inspired violin works, became a best seller at the Shanghai Audio and Video Publishing House in 2018. Shortly after, the album was published by Shanghai Music House with the sheet music, and the CD version of her album was distributed globally in the United States by Skillman Music in January 2018.

Ms. Sun graduated from Stony Brook University with a Doctorate of Music Arts, and earned her Master of Music from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Ida Kavafian on full scholarship. 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. Since the fall of 2019, her quartet has served as Artists-in-Residence through the SUNY Rockefeller Institute of Government. Throughout her career, she has explored a wide range of musical genres, including classical, contemporary, improvisational, and folk music. She has performed the China premiere of Grammy Award-winning composer John Luther Adams’s solo violin work Three High Places during her international recital tour in 2023. Her role as an improvisational soloist in Yo-Yo Ma’s International Youth Music Culture festival has further enriched her artistic journey.

Ms. Sun played with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra from 2019 to 2022, immediately after, she was appointed as assistant professor in violin and viola of University of Alaska Fairbanks, concertmaster of Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra and director of the Northern Light String Orchestra. She is also the violinist of the Alaska trio and Cynosure piano trio. As a committed educator, Ms. Sun launched the International Chamber Music Alaska festival in Fairbanks in the summer of 2025. This festival aims to feature internationally renowned faculty members, such as Philip Setzer, and offer world-class musical training and performances to the Alaska community. Ms. Sun plays on a Marcello Villa violin. In her spare time, she loves to cook and compose.