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Jin-Kyung Joen

Jin-Kyung Joen

Education and Training

BM, Conservatorio G. Nicolini, Piacenza-Italy; MM, Longy School of Music. Violin studies with Zinaida Gilels, Pavel Vernikov, Ilya Grubert, Mario Ferrais.

Awards and Recognition

Winner, Yook-Young Competition

Winner, The Music World Magazine Competition of Seoul

Recipient, Scholarship of Merit at the Instituto per la Musica del 900 in Atri, Italy

Scholar of the Year by the Liberace Foundation, 1997

Jin-Kyung Joen

Division: Expanded Education

Department: Prep Ensembles

Instrument: Violin

In addition to serving as a member of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School violin faculty, Jin-Kyung Joen was named Artistic Director of Project STEP in September 2017. Project STEP is an NEC-sponsored String Training and Education Program for minority students in Boston. Joen had previously served there as Focus Program Coordinator.

Joen has performed internationally as a member of I Filarmonici di Torino, Accademia Romana, I Soloisti Aquilani, and Quartetto Schulhoff. As soloist, Joen has performed in Italy, Poland, Greece, Korea, and the United States with I Filarmonici di Torino, Melos Aperto Orchestra, Scenabruzzo Orchestra, and L’Aquila-Miami Festival Orchestra. She has appeared in many music festivals, including the Portogruaro International Festival, Brandeis Summer Festival, Sulmona Summer Festival, and Norcia Festival.

Chamber music with Piero Farulli, Roman Totenberg, Ronald Feldman, Trio Tchaikovski, Lydian Quartet; concerts in the U.S. and Europe; member, La Philharmonica di Torino, I Solisti Aquilani.

Curriculum Vitae

BM, Conservatorio G. Nicolini, Piacenza-Italy; MM, Longy School of Music. Violin studies with Zinaida Gilels, Pavel Vernikov, Ilya Grubert, Mario Ferrais.

  • Winner, Yook-Young Competition
  • Winner, The Music World Magazine Competition of Seoul
  • Recipient, Scholarship of Merit at the Instituto per la Musica del 900 in Atri, Italy
  • Scholar of the Year by the Liberace Foundation, 1997