JISOO OK
CELLO FACULTY

A Latin Grammy nominee, cellist Jisoo Ok, enjoys a multi-faceted and vibrant musical career as a performer, festival director, arranger, orchestrator, recording artist and educator. As a soloist, she has performed with Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Lancaster Symphony Orchestra and Richmond Symphony. She has performed at prestigious venues and festivals, such as Aspen Music Festival, La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest, the Chautauqua Institute, Carnegie Hall, Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, Festival de Musica dos Capuchos in Portugal, and National Concert Hall in Taiwan.

Devoted to exploring music outside of classical music, Jisoo has collaborated with distinguished musicians, such as latin jazz clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera, tango pianist Pablo Ziegler, jazz violinist Regina Carter and bassist Ron Carter.

Her performances have been featured on Public Radio International’s The World, BBC News, Peabody Award-winning classical music radio program, Performance Today and PBS Performing Arts Series, Next at The Kennedy Center.

Jisoo is on faculty at the Bard College Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division, Lucy Moses School at Kaufman Music Center and Suzuki Virtuoso Academy. In 2020, she published a series of books for young cellists called Hello Cello Positions! The series was No. 1 New Release on Amazon in Cello book category.

Jisoo was born in Seoul, Korea but grew up in New Zealand. She has participated in numerous Master Classes with Janos Starker, Bernard Greenhouse, Paul Katz, Laurence Lesser and Anner Bylsma. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The Juilliard School as a recipient of the Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship, studying with Bonnie Hampton and Fred Sherry and she studied chamber music with Itzhak Perlman and Robert Mann. She is the co-founder and director of the Stowe Tango Music Festival, the premier tango music festival in the United States.