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Dr.
Mi-Jung Im, gold medalist of the 1997 San Antonio
International Piano competition, was born in Korea
and began studying piano at age four. At age six,
she won the gold medal in the Korean National
Teacher's Association competition and at age ten she
was awarded first prize in the Samik National Piano
Competition. That same year, she also won the gold
medal in the National Children's Song Composition
competition in Korea, after which her composition
was nationally broadcast. Dr. Im's other competition
successes include taking first prize in both the
Dong-A Piano Competition in Korea and in the Stony
Brook Concerto Competition in 1991 and winning the
Artist International Audition in 1993 after playing
only the preliminary round.
Dr. Im received her B.A. in music from Seoul
National University in Korea and came to the United
States. She received her Master's degree in music
from the Juilliard School and earned her Doctorate
of Music and Art from SUNY, Stony Brook. Her concert
career includes performances with the George Enescu
Romanian Orchestra, the Sliven Philharmonic of
Bulgaria, the Los Angeles Youth Symphony, the Stony
Brook Orchestra, the Korean Broadcasting Symphony
Orchestra, the Seoul National University Orchestra
and the Seoul City Orchestra. Dr. Im has also given
recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall, Lincoln Center,
and Symphony Space in New York City and at the
Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. as well as in Los
Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, and Salzburg, Austria.
She has toured extensively throughout the Far East,
including three concert tours and numerous master
classes. Dr. Im gave numerous concerts both in the
United States and Korea premiering many piano works
by her husband, Dr. Yoon-il Auh.
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