Faculty & Staff

Min Kwon
Head of Piano, Professor
Music
Degrees & Accomplishments
Bachelor of Music (The Curtis Institute of Music)
Master of Music (The Juilliard School)
Doctor of Musical Arts (The Juilliard School)
Post-Doctoral Studies at the Mozarteum, Salzburg
Member of The Juilliard Council (2016-2019, first alumnus to be invited)
Topics of Expertise
Over 300 solo and duo recitals
Concerto appearances worldwide of over 20 piano concertos and 3 new concerto premieres
Chamber music collaborations with principals of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra; Shanghai, Attaca, Harlem Quartets, and Robert McDuffie, Cho-Liang Lin, Arnold Steinhardt, Benjamin Schmid, Fred Hersch, Jason Moran, Warren Jones and many other distinguished artists
Recording Artist with RCA Red Seal / BMG Artists, MSR Artists and Outhere/ Delos
Artistic Director of “CME Presents”, “Music Made Here”, and “Live from the Barn” concert series
Biography

Hailed for a “ravishing performance” (New York Classical Review), and “captivating enthusiasm coupled with superb technique, warm emotional lyricism and explosive energy” (The Piano), Steinway Artist Min Kwon has worked as a concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, pedagogue, artistic director, and arts advocate. Her professional engagements have taken her to all 50 states and to over 60 countries on seven continents. Head of Piano and professor of Music at Mason Gross, where she has served since 2002, Dr. Kwon is regularly invited to give master classes worldwide.  She has been a guest artist at major institutions and festivals in Australia, Austria, China, Curacao, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Vietnam, and the United States.

For Rutgers, Dr. Kwon has directed nine piano galas at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. New York Concert Review noted that Rutgers piano was “on par with the world’s most prestigious conservatories…there is something really good going on in the piano department.”  As co-director of CME Vienna Concertofest in Austria, she was also responsible for the solo debut of more than 60 Rutgers instrumentalists. Her piano studio produced more than 40 pianists graduate with a DMA. 

Through her latest project America/Beautiful, honoring America’s credo, E Pluribus Unum, she has commissioned and premiered 76 piano works resulting in a profile on NBC TV’s Nightly News, National Public Radio’s (NPR) All Things Considered, The Financial Times, and International Piano, among others.   

Dr. Kwon counts among her teachers and influences Eleanor Sokoloff, Martin Canin, Leon Fleisher, Hans Leygraf.  She has recorded for RCA/BMG and MSR.  Dr. Kwon can be found on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music