Korean-born pianist Min Kwon inspires the artistic community around the world with her dazzling versatility as a soloist, chamber musician, teacher, music administrator, and journalist. An award-winning pianist, she has been acclaimed by The New York Times as "outstanding" and hailed by the Daily Telegraph as “very impressive”.
Noted for her ability to "mix power with subtlety and a delicacy of technique with raw Romantic passion”, Min’s activities as a performer and teacher have taken her to all 50 states in the US and to 45 countries on five continents. As a soloist, she has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, North Carolina, Atlanta, and Forth Worth symphonies, Aspen Festival Orchestra, Juilliard Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall, the Orquesta Estaudo de Mexico, Orquesta Sinfornica Venezuela, and with all of the major orchestras in Korea. Recent season highlights include a solo recital at Carnegie Hall in New York, appearances with the Bacau Philharmonic in Italy, concerts in Norway, Estonia, Singapore, and Prague. Min has captured more than a dozen top prizes at competitions in the US, Spain, Italy, Scotland, and Korea. She has also been invited to numerous festivals internationally in Germany, Denmark, Finland, the Czech Republic, Italy, and the USA.
Born in Seoul, she began studying piano at the age of three, and then took up the violin and cello for several years. At twelve, she won the Music Award given by the Korean Department of Music, and subsequently made her orchestral debut in piano with the Seoul Philharmonic and Korean Symphony on a nationally televised concert. Min Kwon holds a Bachelor of Music from the Curtis Institute, which she earned at age 19, and a Master and Doctorate in Music from The Julliard School. She pursued further post-doctoral studies in Salzburg, Austria. Previously she taught at The Juilliard School. Since 2002 she is an assistant professor of music at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
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