degree in Piano Performance and Literature as well as an Artist Diploma in Harpsichord Performance and Literature from the renowned Cleveland Institute of Music, Dr. Heejin Kang has won several prestigious scholarships and awards in national competitions. A three-time winner of the Music Teachers' National Association Hawaii Competition, a First Runner-up Young Artist of the Southwest Competition and the Aloha Piano Festival Competition, Dr. Kang was named as the John Young Scholar of the University of Hawaii for her excellence in both music and academics. She has also won the Darius Milhaud Award and the William Kurzban Piano Prize.
 

“her extraordinary creativity with a high degree of
musical sensitivity and expressiveness, and a strong love for and dedication to the musical arts as well as academic excellence,”

as lauded by the Darius Milhaud Society, has shaped Dr. Kang's career as a dynamic performer and a dedicated music educator. Her recent professional solo appearances include the Cleveland Museum of Art Performing Arts Series, NPR: Hawai‘i Public Radio Concert Series, PianoFest Concerts, CIM Alumni Recital, UH Music Scholarship Fundraising Recital, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp Recital, Aloha International Piano Festival Concert, American Association of University Women Series, Pacific Composers Project, and Arts in Performance Master Series. She has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras, including The UH Symphony and The Iolani Concert Orchestra.
 

As a versatile chamber musician, her latest collaborations on piano and harpsichord

include performances with Joel Smirnoff (a former president of CIM and a former violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet), Ignace Jang (the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra concertmaster), and musicians from the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, Canton Symphony Orchestra, IRIS Orchestra, New World Symphony, Youngstown Symphony, HSO, and Erie Philharmonic. She has also collaborated with renowned harpsichordists in the “California Masterworks” program presented by the Cleveland Museum of Art’s VIVA! & Gala Performing Arts Series and the Cleveland Orchestra.
 

In addition to her active performance schedule, Dr. Kang is an enthusiastic music educator.

She has instructed music theory and piano at CIM and the Case Western Reserve University as the youngest faculty member. As Coordinator of Preparatory Group Theory at CIM, she led a comprehensive theory curriculum for pre-college Young Artists as well as the Summer Piano Sonata program. She has also taught at the University of Hawaii, Iolani School, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and the Aurora School of Music. In addition, she has adjudicated several competitions, including the Darius Milhaud Competition, the CIM Concerto Competition, and the CIM Prep Competition. 

A firm believer in giving back to a community, she enjoys volunteering.

Her most recent philanthropic works include serving as a Music Therapy Pianist at the University Hospitals Siedman Cancer Center and the American Cancer Society Camp. She has also volunteered as a Toddler Education Pianist for the Toddler Rock at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, which reaches out to nearly 400 Head Start children each week through instrument playing, movement, singing, storytelling and pre-reading. 
 

The writer of a dissertation entitled “Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons of Debussy’s Preludes, Book I: ‘Music That Begins Where the Expressive Power of the Word Ends,’”

Dr. Kang has worked extensively with John Perry, Richard Goode, Paul Schenly, Kathryn Brown, Peter Bennett, Jeffrey Siegel, Frank Heneghan, Deborah Clasquin, Jeffrey Biegel, Thomas Otten, Inon Barnatan, Janina Ceaser, Thomas Yee, and Thomas Rosenkranz throughout the United States, Canada, and Korea.