The daughter of Korean immigrants, Meesun Hong Coleman hails from South Carolina, USA. She attended the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Princeton University and the Juilliard School, where she studied with Ronald Copes and Robert Mann of the Juilliard Quartet. In 2001 she went to Berlin as a Fulbright Scholar to study with Thomas Brandis and has remained in Europe ever since.

Meesun Hong Coleman is a passionate educator, chamber musician and orchestra leader. She is professor of violin and chamber music at the Bruckner University in Linz, as well as guest professor of violin at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, concertmaster of the Potsdam Chamber Academy and the Haydn Philharmonic and a member of Camerata Bern, where she is also a regular guest director and soloist.

A sought-after guest leader, she regularly leads the Mahler, Stuttgart, Munich, Scottish and Basel Chamber Orchestras, the German Chamber Philharmonic in Bremen and the Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as being a principal with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

As an orchestral director and chamber musician she has collaborated with numerous soloists, including Baroque repertoire on period instruments to jazz and experimental music. She has worked with some of the most renowned artists in their field, including Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sergio Azzolini, András Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida, Steven Isserlis, Isabelle Faust, Jörg Widmann, Heinz Holliger, György Kurtág, Nicolas Altstaedt and Nigel Kennedy, as well as the tango legend Richard Galliano, jazz bassist Avishai Cohen and singer Ute Lemper.

Meesun Hong Coleman has appeared at the Salzburg, Gstaad, Lucerne, Edinburgh, Aldeburgh, Schleswig Holstein, Ojai, Marlboro and Rheingau Music Festivals, as well as in such renowned venues as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Musikverein in Vienna, the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and the Philharmonie in Berlin. She has also appeared a number of times at the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove in Cornwall. She plays a Matteo Goffriller violin from 1700.