Min Kwon

Min Kwon (born Kwon Min-kyung) is a Korean-American pianist and professor of piano at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

Early life and education Kwon began playing the piano at the age of 3, under the tutelage of her mother who ran a music school out of her home. She also studied violin, cello, and choral singing. In the sixth grade Kwon decided to focus fully on piano. There, she received a full scholarship to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and she made her North American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 16.

Career Music As the winner of the Beethoven Competition, Kwon made her New York debut in 1992 with the Juilliard Orchestra at the Avery Fisher Hall of Lincoln Center.

Personal life Kwon is married to Leonard Lee, who is chairman of surgery at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.

Discography

1996 Yoon Kwon, Min Kwon / Min Kwon (works by Part, Brahms, de Falla, Gershwin, Kreisler) 2000 You and Me, Yoon and Min (works by Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Copland, Schonfield) 2005 Concerto Extravaganza (works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Grieg, Rachmaninoff) 2008 Schubert and Liszt (Schubert Sonata D 850, Schubert/Liszt Gretchen am Spinnrade, Liszt Gnomenreigen, Reminiscence de Don Juan) 2010 Franz Schubert: Music for Piano Four Hands (with Robert Lehrbaumer) 2015 CME Presents: Piano Celebration Vol. I (works by Horowitz, Barber, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Rzewski) 2016 CME Presents: Piano Celebration Vol. II (works by Paul Real for four hands) 2019 Dance!