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Klara Min is a Korean-born classical pianist. A native of South Korea, Ms. Min has been concertizing in North America, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy and her native South Korea in such venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Barge Music, Gasteig Hall in Munich, Berlin Philharmonie Hall in Berlin, Germany and KBS Broadcast hall in Seoul, Korea.

Education
Born into a musical family in Seoul, Korea Ms. Min started her first piano lesson with her composer mother. She received her musical education at Yewon School and Seoul Arts High School and continued her studies at Manhattan School of Music. Ms. Min received a Bachelor’s degree with Solomon Mikowsky and a Master’s degree with Sara Buechner and Byron Janis. She has Aufbaustudium (Konzertexamen) at Luebeck Musikhochschule in Germany with James Tocco.

Performances
Ms. Min made her debut at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Debut in 2002 as a winner of the Artists International Competition in New York, in which she performed world premiere of piano etudes by a Grawemever Award winning Korean composer Unsuk Chin and New York premiere of a composition by American composer Henry Martin. In 2007, Ms. Min commissioned and premiered a Capriccio for piano and ten instruments by American composer Robert Sirota; in the following year she performed John Corigliano's Piano Concerto in an EPC series in New York.

Ms. Min has performed with Jupiter Symphony, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, New York Sinfonietta, American Chamber Orchestra and Seoul Symphony Orchestra, and her performance of Chopin E minor Piano Concerto has been broadcast nationwide on SBS TV Channel Network in South Korea.

Recent performance highlights have included performances of Schumann Concerto with Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra in Alaska, Beethoven First Piano Concerto with Das Symphonieorchestre at Berlin Philharmonie Hall, Mozart D minor Concerto K466 with Munich Kammerphilharmonie dacapo in Germany and Liszt Second Piano Concerto with Armenian Philharmonic. Ms. Min will give a solo recital at the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Series in Chicago to be live broadcasted on WFMT radio station.

In July 2011, Ms. Min’s recording of solo works by Korean composers will be released on NAXOS label.

As a founder and an artistic director of New York Concert Artists & Associates, she has presented and performed in its concert series, “Brahms and Schumann”, “Mozart’s Twenty-five Piano Concerti” and annual “Evenings of Piano Concerti”. Her presentation has been featured in the International Piano Magazine, The Korea Times, Yamaha’s Accent Magazine and Time Out New York.

Ms. Min is a Yamaha Artist.

Faculty
She has been a piano faculty member at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and an assistant teacher at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.

Awards and Accolades
Ms. Min is a recipient of the Samsung scholarship.

Other competition prizes have included a Grand Prize at the IBLA Grand Prize International Competition, Best Performance of Mozart at the Viotti-Valsesia International Piano Competition in Italy, and a top prize at the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati.

Ms. Min's performances have been praised by New York Concert Review as “a lovely, nuanced tone, genuine expressiveness, excellent technique, exuberance and vitality” and by Przeglad Polski (Polish Newspaper) as “ a beautiful, rich sound and splendid vitality”. Cincinnati Enquirer described her as “ although she is petite, she has steely nerves.”

Personal Life
Ms. Min resides in New York City.