Dr. Hee-Kyung Juhn was born in South Korea, lived her teenage years in Paraguay, South America, and was later trained at Rutgers University (BM), The Juilliard School (MM), University of Michigan, and Indiana University (DM). Her summer training included Tanglewood Music Center in Boston, Aspen Music Festival, Bowdoin, Yale Summer Piano Institute, and International Summer Institute in Brasilia. Her teachers include Leonard Hokanson (a pupil of Artur Schnabel), Arthur Greene, Martin Canin, and collaborative pianists Martin Katz and Jonathan Feldman. A versatile pianist, Hee-Kyung Juhn has worked as opera coach/repetiteur, harpsichordist/organist, and collaborative pianist at several summer institutions (Music Academy of Santa Barbara, Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea, Martina Arroyo Foundation, Inc. in NYC, and Bay View Summer Festival in MI). She is currently the music director at Trinity UMC in Little Rock. As an academic, Dr. Juhn has taught at the University of California in Santa Barbara, Henderson State University, and as artist-in-residence at University of Arkansas in Pine Bluff. She has taught piano masterclasses at University of Georgia in Atlanta, University of Texas in Arlington, Baylor University, University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Daegu Catholic University, JoongAng University, Eastern China Normal University, etc., and has served as a judge/adjudicator at several music competitions in the states of Alaska, California, Louisiana, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, etc.
Her recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations on MSR Classics, which was reviews by Gramophone and Santa Barbara News Press, is currently available at www.amazon.com as well as digital download sites.