SoojinJin

Soojin Jin was born in Seoul and began piano lessons at the age of three. By seven she had won her first national competition and performed a debut recital.

She has appeared as soloist with the University of Michigan Philharmonic Orchestra under Robert Boardman, the Ashdod Symphony Orchestra under Uri Segal, and the University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra under David Neely, in venues from Carnegie Hall and the Kauffman Center to the Basilica di San Pietro in Italy. An advocate of new music, she has worked with living composers including William Bolcom, Don Freund and Emile Naoumoff, whose compositional life was the subject of her doctoral document. She holds a Doctor of Music from the University of Kansas and is artistic director and faculty at the Piano Academy of Kansas City.