- Soojin Ahn
Soojin Ahn is a Korean-American classical pianist. She started playing the piano at age three in her native Korea and moved to the U.S. at age 10.
Soojin Ahn is a winner of many prestigious awards including the
Gilmore Young Artist Award , and was voted an audience favorite at Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. She has performed with orchestras including theBoston Pops ,Omaha Symphony ,Kalamazoo Symphony ,Colorado Springs Symphony ,Jupiter Symphony , among others, and performed in recitals atAlice Tully Hall ,Jordan Hall , andSymphony Hall in Boston.After a brief hand injury, she returned to the concert stage in 2006 to rave reviews from the
Chicago Sun-Times . Her performance at the Fazioli Salon Series in 2006 was voted one of ten best concerts of the year onWFMT radio.Born into a musical family, her grandfather Byung Soh Ahn was a violinist and the founding music director of Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and her grandmother, Aene Lee, a foremost pianist in Korea and considered a national treasure.
Soojin Ahn studied at
The Juilliard School andNew England Conservatory , and her teachers includeRussell Sherman ,Yoheved Kaplinsky , andMenahem Pressler .Links
* [http://www.myspace.com/soojinahn www.myspace.com/soojinahn] Official Myspace page of Soojin Ahn
* [http://www.gilmore.org/gilmore_young_artist/bio.asp?ID=117 Profile of Soojin Ahn] on the Gilmore Keyboard Festival website
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