JeeYoung (Rachel) Choe was the special presentation winner of the Artists International New York, INC., and won the first prize of the Korea Flutist Association, Chunchu music and Ewha Concerto Competitions. Other prizes include the Chosun Newspaper Music Competition, and Seoul Youth Chamber Competition. She was a recipient of a Fuji Xerox Fellowship, Grace Clagett Ranney Endowed Memorial Prize, Britton Johnson Memorial Prize, and Gordon & Lily Hardy Endowed Fellowship.

Ms. Choe has appeared as a soloist with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony, and the Ewha String Ensemble and the Ewha Symphony Orchestra as the winner of the concerto competition. As a dynamic chamber musician, Mr. Choe is a member of duoMare with guitarist Akiko Sumi and Ensemble Ulysse with National Symphony Orchestra Players. Her various chamber performances have been recorded and broadcasted in Hong Kong, Canada, Hawaii and Korea. As an active orchestral player, Ms. Choe is currently the principal flutist of the Mid-Atlantic Symphony, and has been the guest principal the Washington Metropolitan Orchestra, the principal of Peabody Symphony, Ewha Symphony, and has been a member of the Aspen Chamber Symphony, Aspen Festival Orchestra, Seoul Sinfonietta and Seoul Opera Festival Orchestra under conductors such as Hans Vonk, James Conlon, Jaime Laredo and David Zinman. With late Sergiu Commisiona, Choe toured eleven cities in eight Asian countries as principal flutist. With David Robertson, she was selected as the flutist of the Carnegie Hall's Professional Workshop and performed Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall.

Ms. Choe has participated in the Norfolk, Bowdoin, Orford, Aspen Music Festival, Zurich International Masterclass, Asian Youth Orchestra and Ibach Music Festival, where she has worked with Joshua Smith, Thomas Perazzoli, Bonita Boyd, Bernard Goldberg, Sigenori Kudo, and Andras Adorjan.

Born in Seoul Korea, Ms. Choe started piano at the age of four, and began flute studies at twelve. She is currently pursuing Peabody's prestigious doctoral studies with Marina Piccinini. She previously earned Master of Music and Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody, and holds Bachelor of Music with honors from the College of Music, Ewha Woman's University in Korea. Ms. Choe taught music theory classes at Peabody Conservatory, and is a member of the flute faculty at the Peabody Institute's Preparatory Division.