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CONCERT PIANIST
EDUCATION:
DMA, Doctorate of Musical Arts in piano performance,
Boston University
MM, Master of Music in piano performance, highest honors and
Distinction in Performance Award, New England Conservatory of
Music
BM, Bachelor of Music in piano performance, highest honors and
Academic All-American Award, University of Texas at Austin
Prize-winning pianist Elaine Kwon made her orchestral
debut with the Washington-Idaho Symphony at age 15 and has performed
solo, concerto, and chamber music concerts throughout the US and
internationally. She received standing ovations at her sold-out,
2008 Carnegie Hall debut concert in Weill Recital Hall as well
as in her 2010 solo concerto appearance with the Slovak Sinfonietta,
the 2009/2010 season opening concerts as soloist with the Toronto
Philharmonia Orchestra and the Finger Lakes Symphony, and most
recently with the New York Chamber Virtuosi at Zankel Hall at
Carnegie Hall. For 10 years she toured regularly as part of the
Hebert/Kwon piano duo and has appeared on public television and
radio in the US, China and Bulgaria. She was a Visiting Professor
of Piano at the Conservatory of Music in Wuhan, People's Republic
of China and performed duo piano concerts (with pianist Sandra
Hebert) and taught master classes at the music conservatories
in Wuhan, Chengdu and Tianjin. As collaborative musician, she
has performed/composed/choreographed productions of piano music
combined with other art forms. Performances in New York include
presentations at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center Rose Studio, Angel
Orensanz Theater, Tenri Cultural Institute, ICO Gallery, Yamaha
Piano Salon and the Knitting Factory. As a composer, she has written
primarily solo piano works. She created an original score for
the highly-acclaimed Shakespearean play, Corsetless, which premiered
in Buffalo, NY, was showcased in Carnegie Hall, toured through
Ireland in 2009 and is now being made into a feature film. Elaine
is co-founder of the recital series, Savor Your Senses, which
officially launched in 2011.
Her recording of Rubinstein's Piano Concerto no.
4 in D Minor with the Slovak Sinfonietta, conductor Kerry Stratton,
will be released on Artist's Choice Recordings in August 2011.
Elaine is an Affiliated Artist/Lecturer in the Music
Department at MIT where she teaches music theory and piano lab.
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