Soo Jin Min

DMA - Conducting

Soo Jin Min is a third-year DMA student in choral conducting at the University of Notre Dame and Assistant Conductor with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra. Her work also includes engagements with the SMND Vox Lumina, South Bend Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Notre Dame Children’s Choir, the SMND Chamber Choir, and the Concordia Vocal Ensemble.

She was selected to participate in the 2026 Midwestern ACDA and 2025 NCCO Conducting Masterclasses, as well as the 2025 Chorus America Choral-Orchestral Conducting Academy. She was also named a semifinalist for the 2026 Bent But Not Broken 4.0 Conducting Masterclass. She received Distinguished Student Conductor recognition at the Seoul Oratorio Festival each year from 2016 to 2020 and won third prize in the 2020 National Chorus of Korea Choral Conducting Competition. She has served as a music director, soloist, and accompanist at churches in the United States and South Korea, and as Assistant Manager of the Seoul Federation for Choral Music.

Soo Jin holds a MM in Choral Conducting from Louisiana State University and a BM in Church Music, with a concentration in conducting, from South Korea’s Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary, where she entered at the top of her class and graduated early. She also holds an AD in Organ from the Korean campus of the Brno Conservatory in the Czech Republic.