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Scott Yoo (born 25 April 25 1971) is an American conductor and violinist. Since 2019, he hosts the PBS series Now Hear This, of which he is an Executive Producer.

Early life
Yoo, born April 25, 1971 was born in Tokyo, the son of a Japanese mother Mitsuko and Joon Yoo. He was raised in Glastonbury, CT.

At the age of three, Yoo began studying the violin. After winning a youth competition he performed the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Boston Symphony at the age of 12. At the age of 16 he began studying with Dorothy DeLay and Paul Kantor at the Juilliard School and won the Josef Gingold International Violin Competition in Brazil. However, shortly after winning the Young Concert Artists Auditions, he broke his index finger in his left hand and decided against attending the Juilliard School, instead enrolling at Harvard, where he studied Physics.

Career
Yoo and fellow Harvard graduate, Richard Lim, formed the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra in 1993. The orchestra performed more than 90 performances at Jordan Hall in Boston and on tour, and is no longer active. At age 26, Yoo became the Assistant Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Yoo embarked thereafter upon a guest-conducting career, conducting the San Francisco Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Utah Symphony, and New World Symphony, among others. He conducted the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in their Elliott Carter Festival and in his Carnegie Hall debut. In Europe, he conducted the City of London Sinfonia, the Britten Sinfonia, L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Odense Symphony and the Estonian National Symphony. In Asia, Mr. Yoo led the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and the Seoul Philharmonic and Busan Philharmonic in Korea.

In 2002, Yoo became the Conductor of the Colorado College Summer Music Festival. In 2005, he became Music Director of the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival, now called Festival Mozaic.

In 2011, he founded Festicámara, an immersive chamber music program bringing young musicians and international artists together in Medellín, Colombia.

In 2016, Yoo was elected to become the first foreign-born conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra. .

Yoo has recorded for Bridge Records, New World, Naxos, and Sony Classical. In 2019, he recorded two cello concerto albums with the London Symphony Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra for Sony Music.[]

Since september 2019, Yoo has hosted Now Hear This, presented by Great Performances. It is the first television series on American prime-time television about classical music since 1967.

Personal life
Yoo is married to flutist Alice Dade, a Professor at the University of Missouri.

Partial discography
French Cello Concertos, Hee-Young Lim, London Symphony Orchestra, Sony Classical, London 2018, CD.

Dvorak and Enesco Cello Concertos, Bion Tsang, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sony Classical, Glasgow 2018, CD

Earl Kim Orchestral Works, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Naxos, Dublin 2004, CD

Mark O’Connor American Seasons, Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Sony Classical, Boston 2001, CD