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Susan Shin, piano

Susan Shin has performed in New York's Merkin Concert Hall with her piano duo partner and in Boston's Jordan Hall with clarinetist Jonathan Cohler. She has been a featured pianist in performances of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3, and Saint-Saens's Carnival of the Animals with orchestras in Connecticut and New York. A graduate of The Hartt School (M.M. and Artist's Diploma), she has performed with the Emerson String Quartet and The Hartt Symphony Orchestra as winner of the school's Emerson String Quartet and Paranov Concerto competitions. She was also a member of Performance 20/20, the school's full-scholarship honors chamber music program, a teaching fellow, and a member of Pi Kappa Lambda. Ms. Shin has performed at festivals throughout Western Europe and attended the 1999 Shandelee Music Festival as a recipient of the C. J. Huang Scholarship. Her teachers include Luiz de Moura Castro and Natasha Uspenski. Ms. Shin is a 1996 magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where she concentrated in literature. She is currently on the faculty of the Montessori Schools in New York City. She has been on the faculty of ICSC (formerly ICC) since 2000.