Celebrated for her musical vitality and sensitivity, violinist Coco Mi (she/they) was a 2025–2026 Carnegie Hall Ensemble Connect Fellow. She has won first prize at the 2025 Washington International Competition, the 2023 Juilliard Competition, and the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competition, with additional recognition from the 2025 Barbash Bach Competition and 2024 Koussevitsky Young Artist Awards.

Chamber music sits at the core of Mi’s artistic life. She has appeared at Kneisel Hall, the Olympic Music Festival, the Perlman Music Program, and Yellow Barn. As a member of the Edith String Quartet in Juilliard’s Honors Chamber Music Program, she partnered with Project: Music Heals Us to music and original composition with incarcerated audiences, a commitment to access she carries into her ongoing work.

Mi has performed as a substitute with the New York Philharmonic and as concertmaster and principal second of the Juilliard Orchestra under Marin Alsop, Gustavo Dudamel, and Manfred Honeck. A native of Princeton, NJ, she holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School as a Kovner Fellow and is a recent graduate of Juilliard in the Artist Diploma Program, studying with Laurie Smukler, Donald Weilerstein, and Mark Steinberg. In her free time, she pairs cocktails with classical music as co-founder of Lyrical Libations!