Bo Hwang
About
Praised as musician of “Clarity, sincerity, and sparkling tone in her music” by the World Piano Pedagogy Conference in Arizona, South Korean pianist Bo Kyung Hwang has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. Bo Kyung made her professional concerto debut at the age of twelve, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1 with the Seoul Royal Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, she made her solo recital debut at The Mozart Hall in Seoul. She has also performed with the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra in Michigan and was selected to perform Beethoven Sonata, Op. 110 to great acclaim at the 2009 World Piano Pedagogy Conference in Arizona on a program of outstanding students from Korea. Performances throughout England, France, Italy, Austria, and the United States have taken Bo-Kyung to many of the world’s most prestigious concert venues in cities such as Paris, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Milan, Salzburg, London, Wisconsin, Chicago, New York, Arizona, Michigan, Delaware, Washington D.C, Maryland, Virginia, Main, and Florida.
Bo-Kyung has won numerous awards including the first prize at the 32nd International Young Artist Piano Competition and premiered Kaleidoscope by Taiwanese composer, Li-Ly Chang in Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. Bo-Kyung is also a prize recipient of the Pauline Falvin Memorial Award in Solo Piano and the Clara Ascherfeld Award in Accompanying and from Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. She also received a full-tuition Collaborative fellowship from Bowdoin Festival.
As a soloist, She has performed in many master classes for Aldo Ciccolini, Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Ian Hobson, John Perry, Garrick Ohlsson, Jonathan Biss, Jane Coop, Blair McMillen, Elizabeth Pridonoff. In her chamber career, she collaborated with numerous artists and served as a studio pianist for the studios of Soovin Kim, Alan Stepansky, Blair Milton, Hans Jensen, Anthony McGill, Jonathan Snowden. Bo-Kyung has performed in the chamber master classes for Steven Isserlis, Gidon Kremer, Sir James Galway.
Bo Kyung is an active performer as a soloist and also a chamber musician in Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, as well as internationally. Bo Kyung’s leadership as a musician has taken her to many different positions that she is a co-organizer with Pathologist and the Medical Director of Clinical Laboratory Science at Inova Fairfax Hospital, Dr. Lucy Nam for the fund raising concerts for the young artists in Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
She received most of her early musical training in many countries including Mozarteum Summer Music Academy in Salzburg, Austria, The Piano Festival in London, England, Amalfi Coast Music Festival in Italy, Interlochen Arts Academy under T.J.Lymenstull in Michigan, the United States, and Korea National University of Arts of Music Preparatory Division in Korea.
Bo Kyung received the Bachelor of Music Degree in Piano Performance from Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University under the tutelage of Yong Hi Moon. Bo Kyung received her Master’s Degree in Piano Performance from Northwestern University on a full-tuition scholarship under the guidance of Steinway artist, Alan Chow and also earned Doctor of Musical Arts at Shenandoah University on a full-tuition scholarship under Ieva Jokubaviciute.
I have premiered new music by 21st-century living composers and currently working with living composers on their newly composed works. I've also published interpretive strategies with practical suggestions for performing 21st-century piano compositions. As a passionate educator, I encourage my students to explore not only the early classical music, but also contemporary music and other genres in the music world.