Soh-Hyun Park Altino, native of Korea, received her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in violin performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she was a student and teaching assistant of Donald Weilerstein.

Dr. Altino has taught at the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the D'Angelo School of Music at Mercyhurst College, the International School and Festival of Music in Bogota, Colombia, Fabrica de Musica in Brazil, Festival y Academia del Nuevo Mundo in Venezuela, and at the Putney Chamber Music Intensive in Vermont.

She appeared as a soloist with the Peabody Concert Orchestra in Baltimore, the Suwon Philharmonic in Seoul, Korea, Orquestra Sinfonica de Campinas at the Winter Music Festival in Campos do Jordao, Brazil, and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. As a member of the Ceruti String Quartet and the Dúnamis Trio, Dr. Altino frequently performs in chamber music recital series as well as educational programs. She has also performed in numerous solo and chamber music recitals in Germany, Colombia, Brazil, Korea, Venezuela, and the United States, and she has been a participant at festivals such as Tanglewood, Sarasota, Aspen, Kneisel Hall, Yellow Barn, and the New York String Seminar. Dr. Altino is the director of the String Intensive Study Program at the Masterworks Festival in Indiana during summer and is heard in the Festival Virtuosi concerts in Brazil every December.

Dr. Altino has been on the faculty of the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis since 2001.