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Min Kwon (born Kwon Min-kyung) is a Korean-American pianist [1] and professor of piano at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. [2]
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Min Kwon (born Kwon Min-kyung) is a Korean-American pianist [1] and professor of piano at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. [2]
Kwon began playing the piano at the age of 3, under the tutelage of her mother who ran a music school out of her home. [3] She also studied violin, cello, and choral singing. In the sixth grade Kwon decided to focus fully on piano. [3]
Kwon's family immigrated to Closter, New Jersey when she was 14 years old. [3] [4] There, she received a full scholarship to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, [5] and she made her North American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 16. [3]
After earning her Bachelor of Music Degree at the age of 19, [3] Kwon continued her studies at The Juilliard School with Martin Canin. She received MM and DMA degrees from Juilliard, and completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Mozarteum in Austria with Hanz Leygraf. [6]
As the winner of the Beethoven Competition, Kwon made her New York debut in 1992 with the Juilliard Orchestra at the Avery Fisher Hall of Lincoln Center. [6]
Kwon and her sister Yoon, a violinist, were the first Koreans to record for RCA Red Seal Records in 1996. [6] Kwon was Co‐Director of the Vienna ConcertoFest in Austria. From 2015 until 2018 she was on the Juilliard School Council in New York. [5] [6]
Kwon became a professor of Piano at the Mason Gross School in 2002. [6]
Kwon is married to Leonard Lee, who is chairman of surgery at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. [4] The couple have two daughters. [7]
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