With live performances broadcast by WFMT (Chicago’s Classical Radio Station), LCATV (Lake Champlain Access Television), EBS (Korean Educational Broadcast), pianist Sohyun Ahn was named the Best Performer by Eumak-Chunchu, South Korea’s leading classical music journal. She has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, at venues including Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall and Merkin Hall. Her recordings Bach Goldberg Variations (Sonoris) and Mozart Sonatas (Classic Art) were reviewed by New York Concert Review as “crystalline performance” and “absolute master". She gave the complete Mozart Piano Sonata Concert Series at St. John’s in the Village, New York City in 2019.
A passionate advocate and educator of music, Sohyun Ahn has taught at University of Texas at Austin, Concordia College in New York and Rutgers, and the New Jersey State University. Her students have won many prestigious competitions such as MTNA, MEANJ, ProPiano International and more. She was invited for master classes at University of Malaya, University of College Sedaya International, Universiti Punta Malaysia, and Trinity College Board in Malaysia and has served as an adjudicator for numerous competitions.
Sohyun Ahn holds the Doctor of Musical Arts from Rutgers University, Professional Studies Degree from Manhattan School of Music and Masters of Music in Piano Performance with distinction from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Tokyo Geidai Academy, and her Bachelor of Music from Yonsei University in Korea where she received the president award. She is a recipient of the MTNA Teacher Enrichment Grants.
Sohyun Ahn has been dedicated to organizing concerts for New Jewish Home, Riverside Rehabilitation Center, Upper East Side Rehabilitation Center, Amsterdam Nursing Home, St.Jude Children’s Research Hospital, New York Presbyterian Hospital and Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.
Currently Sohyun is a classical music coordinator at the Emmanuel Presbyterian Church and on faculty at the Bard College Preparatory Division and University of Mount Saint Vincent.
