PAST PERFORMANCES

Artistic Director

Crown Thy Good for solo piano
For My Father for solo piano
Window for cello and piano

Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, Op. 56 alongside violinist Alex Kerr, Concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, andcellist Mark Kosower, Principal of the Cleveland Orchestra

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Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Op. 80 with Maestro Patrick Gardner, who conducted his final public concert with the Riverside Choral Society

With Maestro Constantine Orbelian, director of the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra

World premiere of the variation composed by Princeton professor Donnacha Dennehy

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America/Beautiful Recital at Skidmore College

Performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Maestro Kynan Johns

Italy premiere of the America/Beautiful variations

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America/Beautiful Recital in 10000 Dreams Festival

Min Kwon performs with the New Jersey Symphony NewJersey Performing Arts Center (5/30)

CountBasie Center for the Arts (6/1)

StateTheatre New Jersey (6/2)

Withthe Director of the NJ Symphony and Maestra Xian ZhangOrchestra with Xian Zhang, conductor

America/Beautiful Recital at Cleveland Institute of Music

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CME Founder and Director, Min Kwonwith Enriqueta Somarriba, Sonya Headlam, Amir Farsi, Tyler Selvig

America/Beautiful Recital at Trinity Laban Conservatoire

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America/Beautiful Recital in Women in Classical Music Symposium

America/Beautiful Recital at University of Washington

America/Beautiful Recital at California State University Northridge

Solo Recital

Mozart, Chopin, and Schumann

America/Beautiful Recital in Aspen Music Festival

CME Vienna, in collaboration with Altenburg Music Akademie.

Details TBA.

Piano Trio with CME Artists, Dae Hee Ahn, violin and Samuel DeCaprio, cello.

All Schubert Program:
Arpeggione for cello and piano
Fantasy for violin and piano
The Piano Trio No. 1

Works by Schubert, Poulenc, Faure, and Piazzolla.

Recital and master class for the Music Teachers' Association of California.

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A benefit show for The Nancy Frampton Rising Star Series.

World Premiere of Fantasy on Sae Tayung for piano and orchestra, by James Ra.

America/Beautiful Recital at Kent State University

Min Kwon will be a speaker in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's 2022 Women in Classical Music Symposium.

Beethoven and Brahms Clarinet Trio, with Anton Rist, clarinet and Ani Kalayjian, cello

Timo Andres, Sebastian Currier, Huang Ruo, Vijay Iyer, Wang Jie, George Lewis, Paul Moravec, Gity Razaz, Robert Sirota, Melinda Wagner

Leila Adu-Gilmore, Victoria Bond, Charles Coleman, David Serkin Ludwig, Jessica Meyer, Patricio Molina, Qasim Naqvi, Greg Sandow, Juri Seo, Trevor Weston

Jessica Meyer, Michael Gandolfi, Miya Masaoka, Gyan Riley, Nico Muhly, Theo Chandler, Fred Hersch, Bruce Adolphe, John Musto, Leila Adu-Gilmore, Kristjan Jarvi, Jonathan Bailey Holland, JP Jofre, Jiyoung Ko, Timo Andres

Reena Esmail, George Lewis, Jonathan Berger, Richard Danielpour, Michael Gilbertson, Gity Razaz, Jake Heggie, Peter Boyer, Chris Trapani, Lei Liang, Terry Riley, Daniel Newman-Lessler, David Serkin Ludwig, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Qasim Naqvi, Vijay Iyer

Aaron Jay Kernis, Pierre Jalbert, Huang Ruo, Schulamit Ran, Jeff Scott, Judith Lang Zaimont, Stephen Hartke, Texu Kim, Melinda Wagner, Tyson Davis, Juri Seo, Charles Coleman, Greg Sandow, Robert Sirota, Samuel Zyman

Samuel Adler, Libby Larsen, John Harbison, Avner Dorman, Kenji Bunch, Viet Cuong, Liliya Ugay, Andrew Bambridge, Paul Schoenfeld, Hannah Lash, Derrick Skye, David Ragland

Featuring Hai-Ye Ni, Principal Cello of the Philadelphia Orchestra, with CME Director Min Kwon, Piano, and CME Young Artists Nan-Cheng Chen and Ari Evan, Cellos.

Min Kwon performs with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra with Xian Zhang, conductor

CME’s Winter Gala, the final installment in the 2018 Music Made Here series. Featuring Min Kwon with past grant winners and stars of CME

Min Kwon performs works for two pianos with Michael Bulychev-Okser as part of the Alion Baltic International Music Festival, joined by the Alion Baltic Chamber Orchestra.

Faculty, students, and alumni of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University perform works by Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, and Aaron Copland. Min Kwon also performs two world premieres by modern composers Vittorio Montalti and Jonathan Berger.

The second installment of the Center for Musical Excellence’s Music Made Here series, featuring the Grammy-winning Harlem Quartet, joined by Min Kwon for Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat major.

Min Kwon presents pianists Euntaek Kim and Enriqueta Somarriba, performing works for solo and four hands by Brahms, Schubert, and Bartok.

Pianists Min Kwon and Eric Zuber join their significant talents for the first installment in the Center for Musical Excellence’s Music Made Here series, bringing world-class music to the Harding, NJ area. Featuring music by Mozart, Schubert, and Rachmaninoff.

A celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s centennial with music by Bernstein, Copland, Gershwin, and more. Featuring Min Kwon and Enriqueta Somarriba, piano, with Yoon Kwon, violin, Ivan Palomares, conductor, and the Più Mosso Chamber Orchestra.

Another exciting installment in CME's popular series of home concerts in the Harding area, this time at the lovely home of Geoff and Susan Harris! Min Kwon performs with some star alumni, including Francesco Barfoed, Angus Fong, and Lachlan Glen on piano, and new guest Lillian Copeland on oboe.

CME Director, Rutgers Professor of Piano, and Steinway Artist Min Kwon is joined by Jason Moran, 2010 McArthur Fellowship Winner and Artistic Director of Jazz at Kennedy Center, for what is certain to be an unmissable event! Both pianists are currently artists in residence at the American Academy in Rome.

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A glorious night of music and dining, featuring Min Kwon and four of her outstanding students (Carl Patrick Bolleia, Michael Bulychev-Okser, Patricio Molina, and Jiayan Sun). Program highlights include Brahms, Busoni, Rachmaninoff, Piazolla, and original compositions by Molina!

Another exciting installment in CME's Harding Homes series, hosted by Mike and Eileen McDonald at their lovely home. Min Kwon has curated a lovely evening of up-close-and-personal Master Classes in clarinet and voice, featuring Rutgers professors Maureen Hurd-Hause and Eduardo Chama, and their talented students!

"Around the World with Mason Gross School of the Arts Pianists." Showcasing music and performers from 15 countries, this event is curated and emceed by Min Kwon, and features her students!

CME 2015 Grant Winner Brannon Cho, Cello, in recital with Min Kwon. Featuring Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, Prokofiev's Cello Sonata, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Figaro.

Min Kwon and Jonathan Spitz (Principal Cello, NJ Symphony/Orpheus Chamber Orchestra/American Ballet Orchestra) play works by Bach, Beethoven, and Prokofiev in this intimate church concert.

Annual showcase of the faculty of Mason Gross School for the Arts at Rutgers.

Featuring Min Kwon and the pianists of Rutgers University, playing Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals and music from countries around the world

featuring Min Kwon, Yoon Kwon (Violin), Reed Tetzloff (Piano), and the Harlem String Quartet