Cellist Sunkyung Hwang has been acclaimed as "brilliant, elegant in style and a totally dependable cellist" after her solo debut at Seoul Art Center with Seoul Orchestra. She also performed with Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra (Korea), UTU (USA), Melbourne Festival Orchestra (Australia), and numerous others as a soloist. She was also featured in the Gumho Young Artist Concert Series and the 21st century Soloist Chamber Series by Korea Broadcasting System.

Sunkyung's real pursuit for cello started at the preparatory school of the Korea National University of Arts, under Professor Minja Hyun and Sookjung Lee. After she got a Bachelor’s degree from Yonsei University, her interest in teaching made her study with Mineo Hayashi at the International Suzuki School in Matsumoto, Japan. After that, she entered Yale University with a full scholarship and studied under Prof. Aldo Parisot and the Tokyo String Quartet. After getting a Master’s degree from Yale, she continued to study and achieved a Doctoral degree from University of Texas at Austin under Prof. Bion Tsang. She also appeared in Music Academy of West, Encore School for Strings with a full scholarship.

Born in Korea, Sunkyung grew up in a Suzuki environment. Her father is one of the violin teachers trained by Dr. Suzuki, and she experienced the Suzuki method for 6 years as a violinist and then continued to study the Suzuki method as a cellist. When she was a student, she attended the Suzuki Conference several times in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia. She took Suzuki Teacher Training courses in Korea, Japan and the United States with Prof. Kyungik Hwang, Minja Hyun, Mineo Hayashi, Gilda Barston, Pam Davenport, Takao Mizushima, and Melissa Kraut.

As a result, she became a Suzuki cello teacher trainer in the Korea Suzuki Association. She is also a professor in charge of Suzuki major at Kookmin University Graduate School and a cello instructor at Sunhwa Arts Middle School.

Sunkyung enjoys balancing life as a teacher and a performer. Besides being a soloist in concerto concerts, she also has held solo recitals in the USA and Korea. As a chamber musician, she was a member of Prism String Quartet, Yale Cellos, Trio Ui, a principal cellist of W Philharmonic Orchestra and Korea Suzuki String Orchestra.

She was a tenured professor of Yewon Arts University, but she decided to resign to focus on the Suzuki Method and to teach kids. Now she's happy to teach a variety of students ranging from age 3 to teacher trainees.