Hyojin Ahn

Pianist Hyojin Ahn leads a multifaceted musical life that has taken her across Europe, the United States, Haiti and her home country of Korea.  She has appeared at the Kennedy Center in a performance aired live on NPR nationwide, and has twice extensively toured the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.
Ms. Ahn was awarded the Presser Music Award with which she studied and toured in France, Italy, and Austria.  She has won top prizes at several competitions, including the New World Symphony Concerto Competition, the Jacob Flier International Competition, the Samick Piano Competition, the World Newspaper Piano Competition and the Youth Chamber Music Competition.
A graduate of Seoul National University and the University of Michigan, she earned her doctorate from Rice University. After graduation, she won the keyboardist position in the New World Symphony and spent three years playing under Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. Currently she teaches at Barry University in Miami Shores and holds the position of Principal Keyboard of the Southwest Florida Symphony in Fort Meyers, Florida.