is a Korean-American pianist and professor of piano at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Kwon began playing the piano at the age of 3, under the tutelage of her mother who ran a music school out of her home. She also studied violin, cello, and choral singing. In the sixth grade Kwon decided to focus fully on piano.
Kwon's family immigrated to Closter, New Jersey when she was 14 years old. There, she received a full scholarship to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and she made her North American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 16.
After earning her Bachelor of Music Degree at the age of 19, Kwon continued her studies at The Juilliard School with Martin Canin. She received MM and DMA degrees from Juilliard, and completed post-doctoral studies at the University of Mozarteum in Austria with Hanz Leygraf.
As the winner of the Beethoven Competition, Kwon made her New York debut in 1992 with the Juilliard Orchestra at the Avery Fisher Hall of Lincoln Center.
Kwon and her sister Yoon, a violinist, were the first Koreans to record for RCA Red Seal Records in 1996. Kwon was Co‐Director of the Vienna ConcertoFest in Austria. From 2015 until 2018 she was on the Juilliard School Council in New York.
