17 year-old violinist Hyerin Ella Eom was born in South Korea and moved to Palisades Park, New Jersey at the age of 6. In 2019, she was accepted into the Pre-College program at Juilliard, where she is now co-taught by Elizabeth Chang and her teacher from the former years, Soo Yeon Kim, and has served as the concertmaster of the Juilliard Pre-College Symphony.
As a soloist, Hyerin garnered top prizes at local and international competitions, such as the first prizes at the 2021 IGMC, the 2021 Bravura Philharmonic Concerto Competition, the 2023 Adelphi Young Artists Competition in senior division, and an alternate in the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra Korngold Violin Concerto Competition in 2022. She attended Mozarteum Summer Festival in 2019 as a young artist under the tutelage of Pierre Amoyal and attended Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2021 and 2022.
Hyerin is an avid chamber musician as well, and is one of the violinists of the FaMa Quartet, which won 2nd place in the 2022 Coltman Chamber Music Competition junior division and recently won the Gold Medal at Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.
In her free time, Ella enjoys snowboarding in the winter and spending time with family and friends.