Cellist Andrea Yun has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, both as a soloist and chamber musician. She is most active as an orchestral musician. She is a member of the Detroit Opera and Ann Arbor Symphony, and serves as principal cellist of the Baroque on Beaver Island festival orchestra. She has performed as a guest artist with the Detroit Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Toledo Symphony, and Windsor Symphony, among others. Andrea has served under the baton of conductors such as Kurt Mazur, Michael Tilson Thomas, James Levine, and Charles Dutoit. In 2023, Andrea performed as a soloist in Handel’s Xerxes under the direction of Dame Jane Glover. Andrea was acting principal for the Detroit Opera in 2022-2023, and has served as principal for the Windsor Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Flint Symphony, and Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra. Andrea’s solo and chamber performances have been heard on CBC Music (Canada), WKAR-East Lansing, WRCJ-Detroit, Interlochen Public Radio, and Blue Lake Public Radio.

Andrea is highly regarded as a teacher and teacher trainer. She maintains a cello studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she founded Cellympics, a play-based approach to cello technique acquisition for children. Since its inception in 2012, Cellympics has been replicated in over 8 states and 4 countries. Andrea has held teacher training workshops throughout the world – Korea, Australia, England, Spain – as well as throughout the Americas. Andrea is one of 40 Suzuki cello teacher trainers in the Americas, and she was hired in 2020 by Paul Katz to be a part of his CelloBello teacher training faculty. In 2020, Andrea was designated Teacher of the Year by the Michigan chapter of the American String Teachers Association.

Former teaching positions include: Lecturer, University of Michigan; Assistant Professor of Cello, University of Texas at San Antonio; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Cello, Bowling Green State University (OH); Orchestra director, Pioneer High School (MI); Orchestra director, Okemos Chippewa Middle School (MI). At Indiana University, Andrea earned a dual bachelor's degree in music education and mathematics, as well as a master's degree in cello performance with Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi; she completed her doctorate in cello performance and pedagogy from the University of Michigan with Erling Blöndal Bengtsson.