She is a first-place winner of the 2006 Canada Council Musical Instrument Bank National Competition, which included a three-year loan of the Bonjour Stradivarius Cello.
[1] Bae completed her Masters of Music degree and the Artist Diploma from the Juilliard School.
[1] Bae began her career at age 11 with the Korean Canadian Symphony.
Her first place award is the three-year loan of the (c.1696) Bonjour Stradivarius Cello.
[5] Bae has collaborated with other musicians, including as a duo with jazz clarinetist Paquito D’Rivera, in a trio with fiddle player Mark O'Connor and pianist Soyeon Lee,[8] and in the duo "Walk 132" with her pianist and guitarist husband Jason Suh.