Faculty & Staff

MyungJin Oh
Lecturer, Musicology
Arts Online
Music

I believe in three fundamental principles of teaching: to actively communicate with students, to nurture them in an enjoyable and supportive environment, and to carefully create strategies for further development.

Degrees & Accomplishments
PhD candidate in Musicology, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
DMA in Classical Piano, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
Professional Studies Certificate in Classical Piano, Manhattan School of Music
MM in Classical Piano, Manhattan School of Music
BM in Piano, Academic Musical College of the Moscow State Conservatory
Biography

MyungJin Oh is a professional performing musician and emerging music scholar. A native of South Korea, pianist MyungJin Oh made her debut as a soloist at the age of thirteen, performing Mozart’s Concerto No. 21, K. 467 and Chopin’s Concerto No. 2, Op. 21 at Bolshowii Hall in the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, when she was acclaimed by many critics for exhibiting sensitive musicianship. She has won numerous competitions and has appeared in major concert venues in Korea, Austria, Russia, Italy, and the United States. Her academic research focuses on practice-based performance studies. As a musicologist, MyungJin Oh presented her paper on “Phonocentrim in Chopin’s Piano Music” at the International Musicological Conference held by the National Chopin Institute in Warsaw, Poland. She is currently a Lecturer and PhD candidate in musicology at Rutgers University, New Jersey in the United States, where she is completing a dissertation on “Timbre in Chopin’s Parisian Piano Music, 1830s and 1840s.” MyungJin Oh also serves as an editorial assistant for reviews with the Journal of the American Musicological Society.