Jungwon Jin

Dr. Jungwon Jin is Professor of Music and director of the piano department at the Santa Ana College. She is currently on sabbatical leave to research and study Maurice Ravel’s piano music. 
Dr. Jin debuted at the age of twelve with Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1. Three years later, at age of fifteen, her piano trio group won the first place in Aberdeen International Music Festival. Their Tchaikovsky Piano Trio A minor, Op.50 performance won the Audience Prize as well.
She came to the United States to study at the Juilliard School with Olegna Fuschi, György Sándor and Martin Canin. She continued her studies at the Manhattan School of Music with Constance Keene, and earned a Doctoral degree under Nancy Bricard at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Jin has been prize winner or finalist in many musical competitions including the Juilliard Concerto Competition, the Manhattan School Concerto Competition, the USC Concerto Competition, the Young Artist Guild Competition, and New Orleans International Competitions, and Louise McMahone International Competition. She also received the Most Distinguished Music Award at the IBLA International Competition in Sicily, Italy.
As a frequent recitalist, Dr. Jin has performed in New York's Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall. Her recordings include Selected Solo Highlights from the Sydney International Piano Competition, and In Search of Light: Works of Claude Debussy. The latter was a featured recording at the famed Van Gogh Exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and renditions of Debussy and Rachmaninoff were praised for "their regality and impeccable control of dynamics" by the Sydney Herald.
She has frequently collaborated with LA Virtuosi Orchestra (Carlo Ponti, Jr), Symphony Irvine, San Bernardino Orchestra, Pasadena Community Orchestra, Rancho Santiago Orchestra, Culver City Chamber Orchestra and La Sierra Chamber Orchestra.