Jung Eun Hong is a South Korean-born pianist and educator based in New York. She believes in the power of music and music education in the world, especially when it transforms both the learner and the teacher. Jung Eun has been teaching at the PS 214 Michael Friedsam School since 2015, as one of the founding teachers of the Lang Lang
International Music Foundation’s (LLIMF) Keys of Inspiration program. She was also a finalist of the LLIMF Teacher of the Year Award in 2022 and 2023.
Jung Eun studied with Phillip Kawin at the Manhattan School of Music as a scholarship recipient of the KASF Award for her academic excellence and musical talent. She studied chamber music with Daniel Epstein and exclusively worked on violin and piano sonatas inspiring her to study violin as well. She was awarded the Brookshire Musicology Award Scholarship and full fellowship as an accompanist for singers and instrumentalists at SUNY Purchase. Jung Eun received a M.A in Music T.E.P and a NYS Music Teacher Certificate from CUNY Hunter, where she played with the Hunter Symphony as a winner of the Concerto Competition. She was accepted to pursue an Annual Certificate Diploma from Talent Music in Brescia, Italy and Kalaidos University, Switzerland under the tutelage of Andreas Frölich in 2024.
Jung Eun has been a regularly appointed member of the Carnegie Hall Music Educators Workshop since 2021 and annually performs with the Creative Ensemble at Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall. She performed in the Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria and the New Paltz Summer Festival in New York. She has also performed in master classes presented by Oxana Yablonskaya, Karl-Heinz Kämmering, Arie Vardi, Vladimir Feltsman, Daniel Pollack, and Solomon Mikowsky among others. Her mentors are Inesa Sinkevich, Andreas Frölich, Deirdre O’Donohue, Steven Graff, Phillip Kawin, Gumi Ogano, Igor Lebidev, Jung Soon Choi, and Moon Jung Jung.
You can find Jung Eun’s 2023 Romantic Music Competition piano performance here.