Jung-Won Shin 

Dr. Jung-Won Shin has appeared as an active solo and collaborative pianist with a large range of repertoire for solo, vocal, and chamber music at recitals and concerts in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Austria, and Korea. She has won prizes and has been selected as a finalist at several solo, chamber music, and concerto competitions, such as the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition, the Annual Kankakee International Piano Concerto Competition, and the Korean Festival Ensemble Chamber Music Competitions. 

Dr. Shin has been featured in international and regional conferences of the College Music Society, the Music Teacher National Association (MTNA) TEMPO Virtual Conference, state and local conferences of music teachers associations, the New Music on the Bayou Festival in Monroe and Ruston, Louisiana, the Music by Women Festival in Columbus, Mississippi, a piano concerto concert of the New Horizons Symphony Orchestra in Las Cruces, NM, the Music in Action Conference in Los Angeles, the Lives of the Piano concert series at the Manhattan School of Music and the Beethoven Sonata Recital Series at the Yamaha Artist Services in New York, the Beethoven Bootcamp in Dublin, Ireland, the Summer Concert Series at Buam Art Hall and the Geumjeong Cultural Center in Korea, Rising Stars Concerts at the Orford Summer Music Academy and Festival, and guest recitals and master classes at several universities in the U.S. and Korea. She has served as Repetitor at the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria, since 2024. 

Dr. Shin’s collaborative CDs, Chansons de la Nuit (Centaur Records) with soprano Amy Yeung and Franck and Fauré Sonatas with violinist Sue-Jean Park were released. Her current and recent projects include a series of recitals on Beethoven’s piano sonatas and concertos, annual collaborative recitals with violinist Anne-Gaëlle Ravetto and trombonist Douglas Mark, recitals on solo piano works written by living American and Korean composers, a series of recitals and performances on piano duo and duet works by contemporary Korean and Japanese composers in collaboration with Kumiko Shimizu, piano trio recital and recording projects with violinist Yunjung Lee and cellist Dong Yeol Hong, cross-cultural performances with piri artist Jiyoon Kim, a daily piano exercise book for piano students, and an anthology of Korean art songs in collaboration with soprano Teri Herron.

Dr. Shin's students have earned honors from numerous piano competitions including the state and division rounds of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Competitions, the solo and concerto competitions and Pre-College Finals of the Mississippi Music Teachers Association (MMTA), the Collaborative Piano division of the Vocal Artistry Art Song Festival, and the Young Artist Division of the Beethoven Club Competitions. She has adjudicated several local, state, regional, and international solo, concerto, and chamber music competitions. 

Dr. Shin launched the New Mexico State University (NMSU) Piano Festival held on the NMSU campus in Las Cruces in Spring 2026. She organized three study-abroad programs at Delta State University (DSU) in partnership with Sungkyul University and Art & Culture Management CloudPoseidon in Korea. She co-hosted The Art of the Piano, an annual piano festival, both virtual and in-person at DSU and initiated a summer seminar program for teachers, The Art of the Piano FOR TEACHERS at the university. She was on the guest faculty of the Summer Piano Camp and the Keyboard Festival of Sungkyul University. She has presented numerous master classes, lectures, and workshops at several universities, high schools, state and local conferences of music teachers associations, and music festivals in Korea and the U.S. She currently serves as Immediate Past President at the MMTA and Secretary/Treasurer at the College Music Society Southern Chapter. She is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM) in piano.

Dr. Shin earned degrees in piano performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (D.M.A.), Indiana University (M.M.), and Seoul National University (B.M.), studying piano with Ian Hobson, Jeremy Denk, Hyoung-Joon Chang, Unkyoung Kang, Hyeyoung Suh, and Eunsook Seo, and collaborative piano and chamber music with Leonard Hokanson, Mauricio Fuks, Ik-Hwan Bae, Eunhee Park, and Suren Bagratuni. She also participated in master classes with José Feghali, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Anton Kuerti, Kum-Sing Lee, John O'Conor, and Tamás Ungár.

Dr. Shin, the recipient of the 2023 S. E. Kossman Outstanding Teacher Award of Delta State University, served as Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Piano Preparatory Program, and was named Professor Emeritus of Music by the university in 2025. She was Assistant Professor of Piano and Coordinator of the Piano Area at New Mexico State University during the 2025–2026 academic year and is joining the piano faculty at the University of Kansas as Assistant Professor of Piano in Fall 2026.