HOMETOWN: Seoul, South Korea

MEMBER OF: Principal cellist, Symphony Orchestra Augusta and South Carolina Philharmonic, since 2008

EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree from Ewha Womans University, South Korea; studied under Janos Starker at Indiana University; received artist diploma from the University of Hartford, Conn.

HAS WORKED WITH: Christoph Eschenbach, Valery Gergiev and Christopher Hogwood

FIRST SONG: "Within two weeks after I started to play cello, I played Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."

FAVORITE U.S. CONCERT ATTENDED: New York Philharmonic, Avery Fisher Hall, New York, 2008. "The sound was very, very refined."

FAVORITE BOOKS: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, by John Gottman and Joan Declaire; The Road Less Traveled, by M. Scott Peck

FAVORITE KOREAN DISH: Bulgogi

MEMORABLE PERFORMANCES: Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, festival orchestra, Germany, 2004-08. "It's a pretty intense festival. ... I must say: That was the climax of my education. I learned so much every day, every hour."

FAVORITE ALBUMS: Truls Mork's Schumann: Cello Concerto; Block: Schelomo; Bruch: Kol Nidrei and Christina Aguilera's Dirrty

FIRST PERFORMANCE: Kindergarten classmate's birthday party, early 1980s. "That's the first really official performance I think I made. ... I was really, really nervous; that's something I can still remember."

FAVORITE MOVIE: SEVEN POUNDS

PRE-SHOW RITUAL: "I do meditation."

UPCOMING CONCERT: Symphony Orchestra Augusta will present Video Games Live! at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Bell Auditorium, 712 Telfair St.