AWARDS AND PRIZES WON BY OUR STUDENTS include FIRST PRIZES IN: ALEXANDER BUONO INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION, AMERICAN PROTEGE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AMERICAN STRING TEACHERS ASSOCIATION COMPETITION, BRAHMS COMPETITION YALE UNIVERSITY CONCERTO COMPETITION, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY CONCERTO COMEPETITION KOREA TIMES COMPETITION ( KOREA & USA ), KOREA HERALD MUSIC COMPETITION SOUTHWESTERN YOUTH MUSIC FESTIVAL ( SYMF - Young Violinist Category, Open categories ) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BACH FESTIVAL, EUMAG CHUNCHU COMPETITION, SEOUL BAROQUE COMPETITION NANPA COMPETITION, PASADENA COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA CONCERTO AUDITION, PASADENA STRING FESTIVAL, CERTIFICATE OF MERIT ( STATE LEVEL ) SCHOOLS THAT OUR STUDENTS HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED INCLUDES: THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL, YALE UNIVERSITY ( Full Scholarship Music Program ), NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY COLBURN CONSERVATORY ( Full Scholarhip College level Music Program ), PEABODY INSTITUTE SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, YONSEI UNIVERSITY, MANNES COLLEGE EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY and others. * Our students who are not music majors have also submitted CD's to schools along with their application to help get accepted. They have been accepted at : STANFORD UNIVERSITY, BROWN UNIVERSITY, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE and others. OUR FORMER STUDENTS HAVE PERFORMED ( AND WILL PERFORM ) WITH : THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY, THE LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC, THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA PACIFIC SYMPHONY, SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY, KBS ORCHESTRA BUCHEON PHILHARMONIC and others.