Jung-Won Shin

Jung-Won Shin
Repetitor

Pianist Jung-Won Shin has appeared as an active solo and collaborative pianist with a large range of repertoire for solo, vocal, and chamber music at recitals and concerts in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Austria, and Korea. She has won prizes and has been selected as a finalist at several solo, chamber music, and concerto competitions, such as the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition, the Annual Kankakee International Piano Concerto Competition, and the Korean Festival Ensemble Chamber Music Competitions.

Shin has been featured in international and regional conferences of the College Music Society, the Music Teacher National Association (MTNA) TEMPO Virtual Conference, the New Music on the Bayou Festival in Monroe and Ruston, Louisiana, the Music by Women Festival in Columbus, Mississippi, a piano concerto concert of the New Horizons Symphony Orchestra in Las Cruces, NM, the Music in Action Conference in Los Angeles, museLIVE online live recitals, the Lives of the Piano concert series at the Manhattan School of Music and the Beethoven Sonata Recital Series at the Yamaha Artist Services in New York, the Beethoven Bootcamp in Dublin, Ireland, the Summer Concert Series at Buam Art Hall and the Geumjeong Cultural Center in Korea, Rising Stars Concerts at the Orford Summer Music Academy and Festival, and guest recitals and master classes at several universities in the U. S. and Korea. She has served as Repetitor at the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria, since 2024. Her collaborative CDs, Chansons de la Nuit (Centaur Records) with soprano Amy Yeung and Franck and Fauré Sonatas with violinist Sue-Jean Park were released. Her current and recent projects include a series of recitals on Beethoven’s piano sonatas and concertos, annual collaborative recitals with violinist Anne-Gaëlle Ravetto and trombonist Douglas Mark, recitals on solo piano works written by American and Korean living composers, a series of recitals and performances on piano duo and duet works by contemporary Korean and Japanese composers in collaboration with Kumiko Shimizu, piano trio recitals with violinist Yunjung Lee and cellist Dong Yeol Hong, a daily piano exercise book for piano students, and an anthology of Korean art songs in collaboration with soprano Teri Herron.

Shin’s students have earned honors from numerous piano and collaborative piano competitions including the state and division rounds of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Competitions, the Vocal Artistry Art Song Festival Competition, the solo and concerto competitions and Pre-College Finals of the Mississippi Music Teachers Association(MMTA), the DSU Chamber Ensemble Competitions, and the Young Artist Division of the Beethoven Club Competitions. She has adjudicated several local, state, regional, and international solo, concerto, and chamber music competitions. As an active member of the MTNA and the MMTA, she has served as President, President-Elect, Vice President for Pre-College Performances, Vice President for Pre-College Evaluations, and Chamber Music Chair at the MMTA. She is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM) in piano.

Shin initiated and organized academic and cultural exchange programs between DSU and Sungkyul University and Art & Culture Management CloudPoseidon’s musicians of traditional Korean instruments in both the U. S. and Korea. She co-hosted The Art of the Piano, an annual piano festival, both virtual and in-person at Delta State University (DSU) in Cleveland, Mississippi, since 2010. She initiated and co-organized a summer seminar program for teachers, The Art of the Piano FOR TEACHERS on the DSU campus. She was on the guest faculty of the Summer Piano Camp and the Keyboard Festival of Sungkyul University. She has initiated the New Mexico State University (NMSU) Piano Festival that will be held on the NMSU campus in Las Cruces in January 2026. As a clinician, she has presented master classes and workshops at several universities, high schools, and music festivals in Korea and the U.S.

Shin earned degrees in piano performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (D.M.A.), Indiana University (M.M.), and Seoul National University (B.M.), studying piano with Ian Hobson, Jeremy Denk, Hyung-Joon Chang, Unkyoung Kang, Hyeyoung Suh, and Eunsook Seo, and collaborative piano and chamber music with Leonard Hokanson, Mauricio Fuks, Ik-Hwan Bae, Eunhee Park, and Suren Bagratuni. She also participated in master classes with José Feghali, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Anton Kuerti, Kum-Sing Lee, John O’Conor, and Tamás Ungár.

Shin, the recipient of the 2023 S. E. Kossman Outstanding Teacher Award of Delta State University, was Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Piano Preparatory Program at the university and was awarded Professor Emeritus of Music by the university in 2025. She is currently Assistant Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Piano Area at New Mexico State University, Immediate Past President at the MMTA, Co-Vice President for Southwest District at the Professional Music Teachers of New Mexico, and Secretary/Treasurer at the College Music Society Southern Chapter.