Ja Yeon Kang has appeared as both soloist and collaborative artist at Barbican Centre, Wigmore Hall, Holywell Music Room, and LSO St. Luke, in London as well as throughout the numerous venues in the United States and Korea. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Seoul National University and a Master’s Degree from the Peabody Institute. Ms. Kang finished a Doctorate degree from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and City University London, supported by the Guildhall Trust and the Leverhulme Trust.
Ja Yeon’s doctorate dissertation is on Schumann’s late vocal and piano music and she recently finished translating Nancy Reich’s 『Clara Schumann』 in Korean.
Previously, she was on the faculty of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for the keyboard study and worked as a repetiteur at the National Opera Studio in London. Kang currently serves as a lecturer in the Collaborative Piano Department at the Sookmyung Women’s University and teaches piano literature at the University of Seoul. She recently joined a faculty at the Montecito International Music Festival in the USA and has been a member of the chamber music ensemble, Ad Musica.

International Los Angeles Liszt competition prize winner pianist Seonmi Lee has been recognized for her profound musicianship as a collaborative artist.
Since winning major international competitions at the age of ten, Ms Lee has appeared as a celebrated soloist and is in demand as a collaborative pianist in major
performance venues throughout the United States, Europe and Korea. She has performed with such notable artists as concertmaster Martin Chalifour of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Glenn Dicterow, former concert master of the New York Philharmonic.
Dr. Lee received degrees in solo piano performance from Korea National University of Arts and Indiana University, and a DMA in collaborative piano from University of Southern California.
She served as an official pianist at The Primrose International Viola Competition, as well as a collaborative pianist at the Colburn School and USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles where she closely worked with Robert Lipsett and Ralph Kirshbaum.
She is currently a member of Collaborative Piano faculty at the Heifetz International Music Institute, and holds teaching position at The Korea National University of Arts and Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea.