About Kayoung

“Passionate”, “expressive”, “bold” and “sensitive:” This is how critics glowingly described pianist Kayoung An’s performance with the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie at the Seoul Arts Center. It “penetrated deep into the heart, evoking an image of an artist painting on a canvas with a brush” (Music Review, August 2017).

 

Kayoung An has also appeared as a soloist with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, the Seoul Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) Orchestra, the Seoul Philharmonians, the Amadeo Philharmonic Society, and Contemporary Repertoire Orchestra. Her performances have been broadcast on Cogeco TV, KBS Classic FM (Musical Common Ground) and KBS-TV (Music Anchor Desk). She has also been interviewed by Lusiter, Music Today, Music Journal, and the East Hampton Star. She has worked with prominent conductors Gábor Hontvári, Lawrence Golan, and others.

 

Winner of the First Prize at the New York International Artists Association Piano Competition and the Silver Award winner at the Paris International Competition, Kayoung An made her debut in Weill Carnegie Recital Hall in 2013. She has also been a top prize-winner at the IBLA Grand Prize International Competition, Kiwanis Music Competition, Korea All-States National, Darius Milhaud Performance Prize, Duxbury Chamber Competition, CIM Concerto Competition, Kumho Young Artist, and uJung Rising Star Auditions. She also has performed at the Aspen Music Festival, Bowdoin Music Festival, Pianofest in the Hamptons, Babayan International Academy, Norfolk (Conn.) Chamber Music Festival, and the Rimsky-Korsakov Music Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.

 

​Dr. An has been awarded piano performance degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music (B.Mus.), the New England Conservatory (M.Mus.), and the Colburn School (Artist Diploma). She was awarded the coveted Doctor of Musical Arts by the Manhattan School of Music.  

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She has been serving as a music director at the EnoB Foundation since 2016, and the EnoB Education Program since its foundation in 2018.  She recruits professional musicians who believe in the healing power of music by sharing their talent at local hospitals, hospices, and elderly homes. She also has organized and performed in successful concerts in Boston, Los Angeles, and New Orleans to benefit the Bridge of Mission International’s relief efforts in Haiti and Uganda. 

 

A thoughtful and inspiring educator for many years, Dr. An has taught at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles and the Manhattan School of Music and currently is on the music faculty at New Jersey City University.

 

Future engagements include the first recording of the complete piano music/ chamber music of Swiss-born American composer and six-time Clio Award winner Bernard Hoffer with Maestro David Gilbert, Music Director and Conductor of the Greenwich (Conn.) Symphony, the Bergen (N.J.) Philharmonic, and the Senior Concert Orchestra of New York.