Hailed for a “ravishing performance” (New York Classical Review), and “captivating enthusiasm coupled with superb technique, warm emotional lyricism and explosive energy” (The Piano), Steinway Artist Min Kwon excels in an unusually versatile career.  In demand as concerto soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, pedagogue, artistic director and arts advocate, her professional engagements have taken her to all 50 States in the US, and to over sixty countries on seven continents.  

Head of Piano and Professor of Music at Mason Gross, where she has served since 2002, Dr. Kwon is a much-sought after teacher regularly invited to give master classes worldwide.  She has been a guest artist at major institutions and festivals in Australia, Austria, China, Curacao, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Italy, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, Vietnam, and the US.  

For Rutgers, Dr. Kwon has directed 9 Piano Galas at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall.  Her creative leadership and pedagogical efforts have received numerous accolades; New York Concert Review noted that Rutgers piano was “on par with the world’s most prestigious conservatories…there is something really good going on in the piano department.”   As co-director of CME Vienna Concertofest in Austria, she was also responsible for the solo debut of more than 60 Rutgers instrumentalists. Her piano studio produced more than 40 pianists graduate with a D.M.A. 

Through her latest project America/Beautiful, honouring America’s credo, E Pluribus Unum, she has commissioned and premiered 76 new piano works resulting in a profile on NBC TV Nightly News, National Public Radio’s (NPR) “All Things Considered”, The Financial Times, International Piano, among many others.   

Dr. Kwon counts among her teachers and influences Eleanor Sokoloff, Martin Canin, Leon Fleisher, Hans Leygraf.  She has recorded for RCA/BMG and MSR.  Dr. Kwon can be found on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music.