Noëlle Yoo is a classical harpist and a student of Kristi Shade. She is principal harpist of the New York Youth Symphony and the Philharmonic Orchestra at Manhattan School of Music Precollege. She recently performed with the Weill Cornell School of Medicine Orchestra and the NEC Summer Orchestra Institute, and will be attending the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in 2026. Noëlle has also been studying conducting with Robert Kahn and Tanya Chanphanitpornkit at MSM Precollege.

In addition to her orchestral work, Noëlle is an active chamber musician and solo performer. She has loved spending the past 5 summers with the Charles Ives Music Festival and performing in harp ensembles and intensives at Vienna Harp Days, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, American Harp Society (Marlboro, VT), Orford Musique (Québec) and the Young Artist’s Harp Seminar. She has participated in masterclasses with Nancy Allen, Hannah Cope Johnson, Elizabeth Hainen, Veronika Lemishenko and Elisabeth Plank.

In her academic work, she is researching the acoustics of the harp and Spanish guitar in the context of Joaquín Rodrigo’s concertos as part of an independent study at Horace Mann.