Yoonil Auh

Yoon-il Auh (born March 3, 1961) is a Korean–American educator, violinist and composer.

Between 1993 ~ 2000 Yoon-il Auh served as an Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University Teachers College. Yoon-il Auh served as associate director of distance education at the Information Technology Institute at New York University between 1999 ~ 2001 before becoming director at Central Michigan University, where he was responsible for distance and distributed education from 2001 to 2005. For the next seven years, he was the vice president of the National Labor College of the AFL–CIO. In 2005, was a member of the American Council of Education and served on its Commission on International Education. Auh served as Director of Research on the Music for One Foundation (INGO) at the Research Institute for Humanities Performing Arts in 2011. Between 2011 ~ 2015 Auh was on the faculty of the Global Leadership Program at the Youth Orchestras of Americas Foundation. Between 2013 ~ 2015, Auh was Visiting Professor, Global Education Cooperation Program, Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Education at Seoul National University. In 2015 he was Vice Chair of the South Korean Ministry of Education's Special Committee of the Future of Korean Education.

Auh received a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in instructional technology from Teachers College, Columbia University. His doctoral dissertation, "Designing and Creating an Interdisciplinary Learning Environment Using Cognitive Flexibility Theory", received the College President's Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2000. Prior to that, Auh received his MA in Cognition, Computing and Education and an Ed.M. in Music Education and Cognition from Columbia University and an MM and B.A from the Juilliard School. He is also an American Council on Education-certified curriculum reviewer.

Currently, he is a visiting professor and scholar at Seoul National University at the ODA Research Center of the Graduate School of International Studies and the Global Education Cooperation program of the College of Education. Auh is also a special duty professor at Kyung Hee Cyber University, where he is the lead designer of a project called MOOC 2.0 and vice preseident for 2015-16.

In addition to his academic career, Auh has been an active violinist, conductor, composer and author of music books. He received musical training from the Juilliard School under Dorothy DeLay for fourteen years. As a concert violinist, he has performed at American concert venues including Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall, where he gave his New York debut at the age of sixteen. He is also the founder of the International Web Concert Hall (IWCH) competition, which was launched in 1998 and continued until 2012. IWCH was the first of its kind in classical music to hold such events at a global level. The IWCH was reviewed in The New York Times and The New Republic (in an article entitled "Online Music Virtuosity"). He is actively involved in promoting community development via performing arts education at both a local and global level. At the local level, Auh served as a jury member for the classical music competitions in the Washington, D.C., and in Montgomery County, Maryland. At the global level, he has presented on the topics of performing arts education, community development through arts, lifelong learning, and online learning. He is also an author of Harmony Nation Education System, which consists of 125 books and scores, and is sponsored by Kyobo Life and Music for One Foundation. The program is currently being used in South Korea, China, Tanzania, Cambodia, Panama, and Costa Rica. From 2012–2015, Auh served as a faculty member in the Global Leaders program at YOA Orchestra of the Americas, an organization based in Washington, D.C.