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Eun-Joo Kwak

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Concert Pianist, Music Educator Dr. Eun-Joo Kwak is an internationally admired concert artist whose performances have led her to Russia, Asia, and throughout the United States, appearing at Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago, American Landmark Festival in New York, Taipei National Recital Hall in Taiwan, and Seoul Arts Center in Korea. In addition to winning the Concerto Competition at Northwestern University, she has earned top prizes in prestigious competitions such as the Samick Piano Competition in Seoul and the International Beethoven Sonata Competition in Memphis. She also is a recipient of the Scholarship of the Korean Embassy of the United States in Washington, D.C., the Performing and Creative Artists Award from the Liberace Foundation in Las Vegas, and the Yule Bogue Young Artists Award in San Francisco. Kwak earned her Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Seoul National University in Korea, Master of Music from Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University, and Doctor of Music from Northwestern University. She studied with Jeong-Joo Oh, Kui-Hyun Kim, Pawel Checinski, David Kaiserman, and Sylvia Wang, and took master classes with such artists as Robert Levin, Ursula Oppens, and Garrick Ohlsson. Kwak is currently associate professor of piano and chair of the Performing Arts Department at Cardinal Stritch University, where she teaches applied piano, chamber music, group piano courses, piano pedagogy and piano literature.

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