Deanna Pyeon

Deanna Pyeon is a Los Angeles-based performer and educator. She has been praised as a “terrific flutist” by Robert Sherman and hailed for “her brilliant account of the Ibert Flute Concerto” on WQXR, New York City’s Classical Music Station. Pyeon has won top prizes in the National Flute Association Masterclass Performers Competition, American Protégé International Flute Competition, and the Orange County Register’s Top 10 Artists of the Year.  

As an orchestral musician, Pyeon has performed under renowned conductors such as Carl St. Clair, Keith Lockhart, Sebastian Lang-Lessing, JoAnn Falletta, Carlos Izcaray, and Jayce Ogren with the Pacific Symphony, Brevard Music Center Orchestra, and American Youth Symphony. An advocate of new music, she performed in the world premiere of Nico Muhly’s The Right of Your Senses at Walt Disney Concert Hall, as well as the West Coast premiere and PBS SoCal broadcast of Frieze, by Mark-Anthony Turnage. Most recently, she performed she performed Bird Songs by Texu Kim in the Asian Classical Music Initiative conference in Los Angeles and Umoja by Valerie Coleman also at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Pyeon’s passion lies in the intersection of classical music and educational equity. She is the Flute Teaching Artist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Youth Orchestra’s flagship site (YOLA at Inglewood), introducing students in historically marginalized communities to classical music and mentoring their young musical journeys from elementary through high school. Pyeon is also on faculty at Fullerton College and Cerritos College where she runs their flute studios. Determined to grow as a versatile educator, Pyeon has juggled roles as conductor, woodwind sectional coach, college mentor, and masterclass teacher. She has also worked closely with the Orange County Youth Symphony, Claremont Young Musicians Orchestra, Irvine Unified School District, and the Southern California Flute Camp at Chapman University. Pyeon is an active private teacher in the Greater Los Angeles Metro and is passionate about giving back to the community where she was born and raised.

Pyeon graduated magna cum laude with her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Flute Performance from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. Pyeon would not be where she is today without the steadfast guidance of her teachers: Jim Walker, Amy Porter, Benjamin Smolen, Keren Schweitzer, and Anna Choi.

In her free time, she enjoys listening to audiobooks before purchasing (and promptly binge-reading) memoirs, cooking Korean fusion dishes, and dabbling in portrait photography.