Eun Sook Shin

Eun Sook Shin received a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Seoul National University and a Performer’s Certificate, Master of Music, and Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music in New York.  She studied primarily with Natalya Antonova (2000-2006) and Kwi-Hyun Kim (1996-2000).  She has also taken master classes with Vladimir Viardo, Pascal Roge, Malcom Bilson, Hans Leygraf, John Perry, Lazar Berman, and Noel Flores.

Eun Sook has won several national competitions in Korea, she was a Finalist in the Pacific International Piano Competition in Canada, earned 2nd prize in the International Piano Competition at the Academie Internationale du Moulin d’ Ande, and earned 4th prize at the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition in New York. She has performed in many summer festivals, as well as in solo, duet and chamber recitals in France, Korea and the United States. Eun Sook also received the tremendous honor of debuting at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2004.

Eun Sook received the Graduate Award in Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music, the Lizzie T. Mason Scholarship, the John and Linda Van Vooris Memorial Scholarship and the Robert P. Giddings Scholarship at the Eastman School of Music.

Eun Sook was a student teacher and teaching assistant in Theory, Keyboard Skill, Piano Class and Studio Piano.

Eun Sook joined the CSMA music faculty in 2007. She teaches private piano lessons, Aural Training classes, and accompanies student recitals.

My expectations of teaching music are based on the postulate “everyone has their unique way to approach and enjoy music.” I believe that my role, as an effective teacher, is to propel each student to think, to reason, and to develop his/her best technique through ongoing effort.

I also encourage the students to be curious about music history, theory, and aural training, because all these activities challenge students to have deeper knowledge about music and eventually to become independent musicians.

Eun Sook enjoys baking cakes so that she can share pieces of cake with people she loves. She is also interested in scientific research, inspired by her husband, a chemical engineering researcher at Stanford University.