Education
He attended New York City"s prestigious Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, graduating in 1976. While there, Bae also studied with Ivan Galamian at Juilliard"s Pre-School.
He attended New York City"s prestigious Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, graduating in 1976. While there, Bae also studied with Ivan Galamian at Juilliard"s Pre-School.
A native of Seoul, he made his professional debut with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 12. He went on to graduate from Juilliard four years later. His performances in recitals and concerto concerts took him to most of the major cities in Europe, Asia and the United States.
In 1986, he was a recipient of the Solo Recitalist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
As an enthusiastic participant in many of the world"s best chamber music festivals, he traveled everywhere from Seoul to Alaska. He was an artistic director of the Bargemusic Limited., one of the leading presenters of chamber music in New York City, for thirteen years until 1995.
His latest project was as a concertmaster of the Hwaum Chamber Orchestra in South of Korea, a conductor-less string orchestra. He led them to Krakow, Poland and Puerto Rico at the Casals Festival.
Much sought after as a pedagogue, Bae taught at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Korean National Institute for the Arts, as well as giving masterclasses worldwide.
Ik-Hwan Bae was on the faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music from August 1999 until his death in 2014. He recorded for the Radio Corporation of America, ECM, Delos, and Koch labels.
Bae was also a jury member of the Munich Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator competition in Germany, the Carl Nielsen International Violin Competition in Denmark, and the Benjamin Britten International Violin Competition in London.
