Performing throughout the United States, Europe and Asia to unanimous critical acclaim, SOOJIN AHN is recognized as one of the finest pianists of her generation.

Soojin Ahn is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes from international competitions, most notably the Gilmore Young Artist Award and the audience prize at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Subsequently, she has been the guest soloist with The Boston Pops, Colorado Springs, Jupiter (NYC), Kalamazoo and Omaha symphony orchestras and the Chicago and New England chamber orchestras. In 2001, she was invited by David Robertson to perform Messiaen’s Turangalila Symphony with the Chicago Civic Orchestra.  Her recitals have been heard in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Alice Tully Hall, Boston’s Jordan Hall and Symphony Hall and in Philadelphia, presented by The Philadelphia Orchestra. She stunned the music community when, for her debut at Korea’s Sejong Cultural Center, she performed the twenty-four Études of Chopin at the age of 15.

An avid chamber musician, Soojin Ahn has performed with the Manhattan String Quartet and collaborates frequently with violinist Rachel Barton Pine and cellist Wendy Warner.

Soojin Ahn’s performances have been broadcast frequently on WMFT in Chicago. Her November 2006 recital on the Fazioli Salon Series was voted “Best Performance of the Year,” and was re-broadcast before the end of that year.

Soojin Ahn began playing the piano at the age of three in her native Korea. At nine, she moved to the United States to continue her musical studies. Over the years, her principal teachers included Menahem Pressler, Russell Sherman and Yoheved Kaplinsky. Ms. Ahn holds B.M and M.M. degrees from the New England Conservatory, as well as the Advanced Certificate from The Juilliard School.

Soojin Ahn comes from a very distinguished musical family: Her grandfather, Byong-Soh Ahn, was a violinist and the founding music director of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and her grandmother, Aene Lee, was a foremost pianist in Korea.
                                               

BARBER                                
Concerto, Op. 38
BARTÓK                               
Concerto #2 (1931)
Concerto #3 (1945)
BEETHOVEN            
Concerto #1 in C, Op. 15
Concerto #2 in B-flat, Op. 19
Concerto #3 in c, Op. 37
Concerto #4 in G, Op. 58
Concerto #5 in E-flat, Op. 73 ("Emperor")
BRAHMS                               
Concerto #1 in d, Op. 15
CHOPIN                                
Concerto #1 in e, Op. 11
Concerto #2 in f, Op. 21
Variations on Mozart’s La ci darem la mano, Op. 2
GRIEG                        
Concerto in a, Op. 16
LISZT                                     
Concerto #1 in E-flat
Concerto #2 in A
Totentanz
MESSIAEN                            
Turangalila Symphony
MOZART                               
Concerto #9 in E-flat, K. 271
Concerto #12 in A, K. 414
Concerto #19 in F, K. 459
Concerto #20 in d, K. 466
Concerto #22 in E-flat, K. 482
Concerto #23 in A, K. 488
Concerto #27 in B-flat, K. 595  
PROKOFIEV                         
Concerto #2 in g, Op. 16
Concerto #3 in C, Op. 26
RACHMANINOFF               
Concerto #1 in f#, Op. 1
Concerto #2 in c, Op. 18
Concerto #3 in d, Op. 30
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
RAVEL                                   
Concerto in D for the Left Hand
Concerto in G
SCHUMANN                        
Concerto in a, Op. 54
TCHAIKOVSKY                   
Concerto #1 in b-flat, Op. 23

"She played the Schubert [Impromptu in G-flat] with a beautiful, full, velvety quality of tone, a vocal degree of rhythmic freedom, and a real generosity and sweetness of emotion."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
                                               
"This young Korean-born American artist, dressed in a strapless black gown, seemed to meld with the ebony Steinway in a way that seemed impossible. Her intensity produced a kind of concentrated concentration and, at times, there was an almost spiritual quality present. This reviewer was sitting where her hands could not be seen and wondered if she was even touching the keys, if somehow her thoughts were magically making the piano play itself."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

"Her playing is a paradox of elegance and excitement, poetry and fire."
THE GREENVILLE NEWS
 
"Soojin Ahn opened the Music Society of St. Cecilia’s first chamber music series with a recital of amazing verve, variety and excellence. Her surprising maturity as an artist allowed her to show intensity without being gobbled up by it."
THE SACRAMENTO BEE
 
"Ahn is a go-for-it pianist, delighting in highly differentiated dynamics and colors, and is possessed of a strong-rooted sense of rhythm. The second movement’s [Ravel Concerto in G] slow, sad waltz begun by the piano solo showed Ahn’s ability to spin out a long skein of melody, responding to its quirky turnings and controlling its accumulations and releases of tension."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
 
"When she plays, she can take you straight through to Tipperary - or the moon."
Russell Sherman

3/25/2012 (2:30pm) YOUNG PIANIST SERIES
Harold & Jean Lambert Recital Hall, Maryville College (TN)
Schubert: Piano Sonata in Bb
Rachmaninoff: Corelli Variations
Ravel: La Valse

4/3/2012 (12pm) “LIVE FROM HOCHSTEIN”
live broadcast on WXXI
Hochstein School of Music & Dance (Rochester, NY)
with Michael Larco, violist

4/6/2012 (8pm) ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Ingle Auditorium
with Anna Elashvili, violinist
Michael Larco, violist
Wendy Warner, cellist

4/15/2012 (3pm) ROANOKE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
4/16/2012 (8pm) David Wiley, conductor
Shaftman Performance Hall
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2