Soojin Ahn is a Korean American

Korean American

Korean Americans are Americans of Korean descent, mostly from South Korea, with a small minority from North Korea...

 classical pianist. She started playing the piano at age three in her native South 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 the Boston Pops, Omaha Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony, Colorado Springs Symphony, Jupiter Symphony, among others, and performed in recitals at Alice Tully Hall

Alice Tully Hall

Alice Tully Hall is a concert hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City. It is named for Alice Tully, a New York performer and philanthropist whose donations assisted in the construction of the hall...

, Jordan Hall

Jordan Hall

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, and Symphony Hall

Symphony Hall

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 in Boston.

After a brief hand injury, she returned to the concert stage in 2006 to rave reviews from the Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Sun-Times

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. Her performance at the Fazioli Salon Series in 2006 was voted one of ten best concerts of the year on WFMT

WFMT

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 radio.

Born into a musical family, her grandfather Byung-soh Ahn was a violinist and the founding music director of Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra

The Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, founded in 1948, is one of the oldest and most famous orchestras in South Korea. Its first foreign tour came on a 1965 trip to Japan, followed by performances in Southeast Asia in 1977, the United States in 1982, 1986 and 1996, a 1988 tour of Europe before the...

 and her grandmother, Aene Lee, a foremost pianist in Korea and considered a national treasure.

Soojin Ahn studied at The Juilliard School and New England Conservatory, and her teachers include Russell Sherman

Russell Sherman

Russell Sherman is an American classical pianist, educator and author.Russell Sherman made his debut at The Town Hall in New York at age 15; later studying piano with Edward Steuermann and composition with Erich Itor Kahn...

, Yoheved Kaplinsky

Yoheved Kaplinsky

Yoheved "Veda" Kaplinsky is an award-winning classical pianist, lecturer and professor of music at the Juilliard School...

, and Menahem Pressler

Menahem Pressler

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External links

• www.myspace.com/soojinahn Official Myspace page of Soojin Ahn
• Profile of Soojin Ahn on the Gilmore Keyboard Festival website