Piano Performance by Kyungwha Chu, Wednesday March 25, 2026

Award-winning pianist Kyungwha Chu performs as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Asia and Europe. Her performances have included appearances at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and 92nd Street Y, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Ms. Chu has appeared as a soloist with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Jeju Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, Royal Conservatory of Music Orchestra, and Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra. Her awards include top prizes in the Korean Broadcasting System Competition, Korean Newspaper Music Competition, Bad Bertrich Internationaler Klaviersommer, Baltimore Music Club Competition, as well as in concerto competitions at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Royal Conservatory of Music, and Stony Brook University. In 2010, she participated in the Professional Training Workshop at Carnegie Hall where she worked with Yo-Yo Ma and Pamela Frank and was one of seven students of Leon Fleisher to perform all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in a one-day marathon concert. In the Fall of 2018, Ms. Chu led the Stony Brook University Symphony Orchestra in a conductorless performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto. In 2021, she made her debut in Naples, Italy as a winner of the Sigismund Thalberg International Piano Competition. Ms. Chu holds a Bachelor’s degree in piano performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, an Artist Diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music, and a Master’s Degree and Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where she was a fullscholarship student of Leon Fleisher. She is currently a DMA candidate and a teaching assistant at Stony Brook University.