Email:

eunjbang@iu.edu

Department:

Chamber and Collaborative Music

Eunjin Bang is visiting academic specialist in chamber and collaborative music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Since moving to the United States in 2007, South Korean pianist Bang has established herself as an award-winning performer, enthusiastic collaborator, and chamber musician. She has performed globally, including in the United States, South Korea, Germany, Spain, and Canada. Her engagements include broadcasts on WCLV radio (Cleveland) and WKAR radio (Lansing), a performing Schnittke’s Piano Quartet with Sibbi Bernhardsson (former member of the Pacifica String Quartet), and appearing as a soloist with the IU Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of David Effron.

As a member of the Zima Piano Trio, she has received first prize in the ensemble category of the New York International Music Concours and has been invited to perform at Mineral Point Chamber Music Festival in Madison, Wisconsin, as well as the Absolute Chamber Music Series in Lansing, Michigan.

From 2023 to 2024, Bang served as a staff pianist at Stephen F. Austin State University, including a performance at the SWACDA conference in Denver, Colorado. She served as a repetiteur for Cincinnati Opera’s world-premiere staging of Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio as well as for Austin, Texas-based chamber orchestra Density512’s premiere of Thomas Yee’s Eva and the Angel of Death.

Bang earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Oberlin College and Conservatory under the guidance of Haewon Song and a Master of Music, Performer Diploma, Artist Diploma, and Doctor of Music in Piano Performance from the Jacobs School of Music under the guidance of Emile Naoumoff and Arnaldo Cohen, with double minors in music theory and collaborative piano.