Dr. Sharon Gayoung Cho, born in South Korea and raised in Vienna, is an internationally recognized violinist and chamber musician whose career has taken her across Europe, Asia, and the United States. She has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Vienna Musikverein, and the Austrian Presidential Palace, where she was invited to perform for the President of Austria. A prizewinner in several international competitions, she has served as concertmaster for numerous orchestras. At fifteen, she entered the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna as one of its youngest students, where she completed her undergraduate, master’s, and postgraduate degrees on full scholarship, and later earned an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts from Rutgers University.. A highly regarded educator, her students have earned top awards in competitions and have gone on to attend Ivy League and other leading institutions. She is also the founder and artistic director of Music Matters Lab Collective.