Jung-Won Shin

 

Jung-Won Shin is Assistant Professor of Piano at NMSU. She has appeared as an active solo and collaborative pianist at recitals and concerts in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Austria, and Korea. Shin has been featured in international, national, and regional conferences of the College Music Society, the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) TEMPO Virtual Conference, the New Music on the Bayou Festival in Monroe and Ruston, Louisiana, the Music in Action Conference in Los Angeles, the Lives of the Piano concert series at the Manhattan School of Music and the Beethoven Sonata Recital Series at the Yamaha Artist Services both in New York, the Beethoven Bootcamp in Dublin, Rising Stars Concerts at the Orford Summer Music Academy and Festival, and several recital and concert series in Korea. She has served as Repetitor at the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria, since 2024. Her two collaborative CDs with soprano Amy Yeung and violinist Sue-Jean Park respectively have been released. Her current and recent performance projects include recitals on contemporary works by American and Korean living composers, piano duo recitals with Kumiko Shimizu on works by Korean and Japanese composers, annual recitals with trombonist Douglas Mark and violinist Anne-Gaëlle Ravetto, piano trio recitals with violinist Yunjung Lee and cellist Dong Yeol Hong, a piano exercise book for college students, an anthology of Korean art songs in collaboration with soprano Teri Herron, and a series of recitals on Beethoven’s piano sonatas and concertos.

Shin, the recipient of the 2023 S. E. Kossman Outstanding Teacher Award at Delta State University (DSU), served as Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Piano Preparatory Program under the Department of Music at DSU. She has co-hosted the Art of the Piano, DSU’s annual piano festival for students and teachers for many years and has initiated and co-organized The Art of the Piano FOR TEACHERS summer seminar on campus. She has initiated and organized the DSU study-abroad Korea and academic and cultural exchange programs between DSU and Sungkyul University and Art & Culture Management CloudPoseidon’s musicians of traditional Korean instruments in both the U. S. and Korea.

Shin earned degrees in piano performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (D.M.A.), Indiana University (M.M.), and Seoul National University (B.M.). She is Immediate Past President at the Mississippi Music Teachers Association and Treasurer/Secretary at the College Music Society Southern Chapter.

 

 

Instrument 

Piano