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Dr. Soojin Kang, piano
Pianist Soojin Kang has been praised as "a passionate performer with captivating energy, a wide variety of tones, and musicality" (Kookje Daily News, Kyung Nam Press). She enjoys a fulfilling and wide-ranging career as a soloist, collaborative pianist, chamber musician, coach, and educator. Her musical journey began at the age of six, when winning her first piano competition inspired a lifelong love of music-making.
As a solo pianist, Kang has performed at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and has been invited to appear at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fenway Center in Boston, and with the Jinju Philharmonic Orchestra. During her doctoral studies, she was appointed Graduate Assistant Pianist at Michigan State University and was recognized as an award-winning student at the Boston Conservatory.
She has received numerous prizes and honors, including First Prize at the Boston Conservatory Honors Competition, Golden Classical Music Awards International Competition, Salzburg Grand Prize Virtuoso International Competition, American Protégé International Competition, as well as several national competitions in Korea. Additional distinctions include Second Prize at the Christine Bane Kefferstan Classical Piano Competition and Third Prize at the West Virginia University Competition. Her artistry has been further shaped through master classes with Julian Martin, Anton Nel, John O'Conor, and Peter Amstutz.
A devoted collaborative pianist, Kang performs extensively with vocalists and instrumentalists and values musical partnership as a central part of her artistic identity. She has collaborated with the Boston ballet community, presenting solo piano works such as Alban Berg's Piano Sonata, Op. 1 for In Blue Orchids and J. S. Bach's Partita No. 2 for Bach to Bach. She has appeared in Chamber Series Concerts at the Fenway Center as part of an award-winning trio and has been featured on Classical Interlochen Public Radio, which has broadcast numerous collaborative performances. Alongside her performance work, she brings many years of teaching experience as a coach, accompanist, and orchestral pianist.
Dr. Kang holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from Michigan State University, a Master of Music from the Boston Conservatory, and a Bachelor of Music from Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea. Her principal teachers include Panayis Lyras, Alexander Korsantia, Daniel Epstein, Jungja Kim, and Hyungkyu Kim. She has served as a collaborative pianist at the Interlochen Arts Center and Interlochen Arts Academy, and she is currently Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at the Eastman School of Music.