Mr. Bae is currently a professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and has been faculty member at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, the Manhattan School of Music and the Korean National Institutes for the Arts. Every year he gives master classes worldwide.

He has been a jury member of the Munich ARD competition in Germany and the Carl Nielson International Violin Competition in Denmark.

Ik-Hwan Bae was born in Seoul, Korea, and made his professional debut with the Seoul Philharmonic at the age of 12. After studying with Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard school, he has been very busy person ever since. His performances in recitals and concerto concerts has taken him to most of the major cities in Europe, Asia and United States.

He has been a prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and the ARD Competition in Munich.

As an enthusiastic participant in many of the worlds best chamber music festivals, he has been seen everywhere from Seoul to Alaska. And also served as an artistic director of the Bargemusic Ltd., one of the leading presenters of chamber music in New York City, for thirteen years, until 1995.

Mr. Bae has recorded for RCA, ECM, Delos, and Koch labels.