Dr. Haysun Kang
	Title:	Assistant Professor
	Office:	Mundelein 1112
	Phone:	773-508-8316
	E-mail:	hkang2@luc.edu

Personal Information

Degrees:

D.M., Piano Performance, Northwestern University

M.M., Piano Performance, DePaul University

B.M., Piano Performance, Seoul National University, Korea

Haysun Kang performs frequently as a recitalist, chamber musician, and soloist with orchestra, at major concert venues such as the Carnegie Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, and live on WQXR-FM radio in New York. Her performances have taken her throughout America, Europe, and Asia. In the United States, she has been a featured soloist with orchestras such as Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra, Kankakee Valley Symphony Orchestra, American Legion Symphonic Band, Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, and North Shore Chamber Orchestra. She has performed as guest pianist twice with the South Texas Symphony Orchestra and five times with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra. While her playing is noted for its elegance and a wide palette of colors, her recent performances with the Philharmonia Sudecka and Philharmonia Dolnoslaska in Poland garnered praise for her “immaculate technique and flawless dexterity" - Kazimierz Kosciukiewicz, acclaimed music critic.

A native of Korea, Dr. Kang is a product of both Korean and American formal musical training. She received her first piano lessons at the age of four and won the Asian Young Artist Piano Competition when she was twelve. She received a full scholarship to attend Seoul National University in Korea and obtained her bachelors degree in piano performance. In the United States, she received her Master of Music degree from DePaul University, Chicago, where she studied with a Chopin International Competition laureate, Dmitry Paperno. Haysun Kang earned her Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, under the guidance of the renowned pianist and teacher Dr. David Kaiserman. She also received her musical training from Julian Martin at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and Alexis Golovin at the Academy of Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

Haysun Kang was a winner in numerous competitions such as the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition, the Young Keyboard Artist Association International Piano Competition in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Verna Ross Orndorff Austrian-American Music Award, the Society of American Musicians Competition, the Cliff Dwellers Arts Foundation Award, and the Hoverson Piano Award.

Haysun Kang is currently a faculty member of Loyola University Chicago, where she serves as head of the piano program.