Taeguk Mun studied at the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School in New York under Minhye Clara Kim before obtaining his bachelor’s at the New England Conservatory in Boston, where he was taught by Laurence Lesser. He is currently perfecting his art at the University of Southern California under the guidance of Marcy Rosen and Ralph Kirshbaum. He has won first prize at various competitions, including the Pablo Casals competition in 2014, the Andre Navarra International Cello Competition, and the National Sung-Jung Competition in Korea. He is also a laureate of the International Tchaikovsky Competition and of the Irving M. Klein International String Competition. Taeguk Mun has performed with orchestras such as the St Petersburg Academic Philharmonia, the Hungarian Radio Symphony, the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Korean Symphony Orchestra. His first album was released in 2019 on the Warner Classics label. He received the Janos Starker Award in 2016 and was an artist in residence at the Kumho Art Hall in 2017.