Educator

June Yun is a NYC and Berlin based vocalist, composer and educator from Seoul, South Korea. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music with honors (John Coltrane Award). Yun recently received her Master of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music (Jazz Arts) where she received training to be a music educator as well as a performing musician and composer.

June Yun has studied and performed with some of the most influential musicians including Jean Baylor, Theo Bleckmann, Shai Maestro, Joel Ross, Ingrid Jensen, Amy London, Mike Moreno, Jeremy Manasia and Dr. Richard Harper. She has been performing and teaching a wide range of music including her original music, traditional and modern jazz, contemporary pop and R&B, K-pop, classical music, Korean traditional music, film music, and musical theater. Yun has performed at some of the most well-known jazz clubs and halls in NYC including Dizzy’s Jazz at Lincoln Center, Smalls Jazz club, John Tishman Auditorium, Mercury Lounge, and more. She is also well known in Korea for her debut single, a collaboration album with Korea’s famous old-pop singer Seung-Hwa Park of Glass Box which was sponsored by KBS, the biggest national broadcasting TV & Radio channel in Korea.

June has been teaching private lessons for voice, piano, music theory and fundamentals of music for almost 10 years. In New York she taught undergraduate students at the New School for Jazz, and was a faculty at Larchmont Music Academy. After moving to Berlin for her next chapter in music and life, she has been teaching online lessons and in-person private lessons as a freelance music educator. Yun has a great passion in teaching and believes that being a good teacher is equal to being a good person and a great musician. She believes that music is the most powerful language that exists and that it can help one’s life in many ways, she teaches with those beliefs and makes her lessons and classes enjoyable and meaningful with innovative ideas and teaching approaches.