From: Busan, South Korea

Education: Berklee College of Music; SUNY Purchase – M.M.

I play and teach: Piano

Biography: Haeun Joo is a jazz pianist from South Korea. She started playing the piano when she was five years old. While she was studying classical piano, she also played classical and gospel as an accompanist in church. She has great command over classical, gospel and also pop music.

Two of her greatest talents are piano performance and composition. Haeun Joo won the Korean Composition Competition two years in a row when she was in 5th and 6th grades. She studied classical composition in Busan Art High School in Korea and went to Howon University to study pop and jazz. She collaborated with several pop artists in Korea, and she performed as a singer-songwriter after winning a Singer-Songwriter Competition (Yoo Jae-Ha).

She moved to the U.S. in 2011 to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston where she was offered a scholarship. After she graduated Berklee, she received her M.M. from SUNY Purchase. Since then, she has collaborated with several musicians, playing and recording at various venues and recording studios. She is currently living in New York and her debut album came out in August 2021.