Goeun Melody Sim is a 9th grader at Columbus High School Liberal Arts Preparatory Magnet. She started piano at age of three and violin at the age of four. She currently studies with Professor Sergiu Schwartz at Columbus State University.
Goeun has won numerous competitions, including second place at Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Conference in Junior Strings Category which was held in Anaheim, California. Also, she has won a Grand Prize of the Lois Pickard Scholarship Competition where she performed as a soloist with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra (ASO). Goeun performed Dying Swan as a soloist with Moscow Ballet principal during the Great Russian Nutcracker.
During summer of 2013, she participated at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) in Lenox, Massachusetts. She was selected as a concertmaster with Young Artist Orchestra, and to perform on Tanglewood On Parade with her chamber group. Goeun also earned a concertmaster seat in Alabama All-State Music Festival. She was a member of first violin in the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra (MSO), and a concertmaster with the Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra (ASYO). She featured as a soloist with the MSO yearly and was an intern at Montgomery Music Project (MMP). She is the current concertmaster of Youth Orchestra of Greater Columbus (YOGC).