Haewon Song is a South Korean
pianist
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and pedagogue who was awarded many prizes at the
World
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and
Oberlin International Piano Competitions as well as
Music Teachers National Association award. She used to give lessons in France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and her native Korea. As a soloist she performed at the
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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and
Cleveland Chamber Symphony and was a participant of the
Festival Internacional Cervantino, and both Oberlin and Grand Teton Music Festivals. She is a graduate of
Toho Gakuen School of Music
is a private university, private music school in Chōfu, Tokyo, Japan.
History
Toho Gakuen was founded in 1948 in Ichigaya (Tokyo) as the Music School for Children, and two years later moved to Sengawa (current address at Wakabacyo, Chōfu-shi, ...
and
Juilliard School
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where she was under guidance from Shuku Iwasaki, Julian Martin, and
Martin Canin. Currently she works as a teacher at both
Tunghai and
Kyung Won Universities in the capital of South Korea. She is married to Robert Shannon who works at the
Oberlin Conservatory of Music and together they issue albums under
Bridge Records label.
References
Living people
South Korean classical pianists
Juilliard School alumni
Toho Gakuen School of Music alumni
Academic staff of Tunghai University
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century South Korean pianists
South Korean women classical pianists
21st-century South Korean women pianists
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