Dr. Hyeseon Jin is an adjunct professor of piano at Anderson University, Indiana. She earned Doctorate in Piano Performance and Music Literature with two minors, Music Theory and Arts Administration, at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, where she earned a Master of Music and Performer Diploma. She obtained her Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University in South Korea.

Jin has been actively performing as a soloist and collaborative pianist, maintaining a regular concert schedule. Her performances have taken her to venues internationally, including Klavierhouse, Murray State University, Porto Pianofest (Portugal), Gijon International Piano Festival (Spain), Kennedy Center, Ruthmere Museum, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Brown County Art Guild, and various esteemed venues in South Korea such as Seoul Arts Center, Sejong Performing Arts Center, Kumho Arts Hall, Yongsan Art Hall, Seongnam Art Center Concert Hall, and Ilshin Arts Hall. She has performed alongside orchestras such as the Jacobs School of Music Student Orchestra, the Seoul Sejong Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Ukraine Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Jin has won over a dozen top prizes in prestigious music competitions worldwide, including the Segye Times Piano Competition (South Korea), Asia International Chopin Competition (Japan), Kurume International J.S. Bach Music Competition (Japan), LA International Liszt Competition, Kirov International Music Festival Competition, Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Competition, Robert B. Beardsley Piano Prize Competition, Southern Illinois Young Artist Organization Competition, Manhattan International Music Competition, Millersville Keyboard International Piano Competition, and Moscow International Chopin Competition (Russia). She is also the recipient of awards such as the Fellowship from Porto Pianofest and Gijon International Piano Festival, the American Liszt Society Award, the Réka Darida Foundation Education Prize, the MTNA Collegiate Chapter of the Year Award, and the IU Student Organization of the Year Award among more than 700 enrolled IU student organizations.

Jin has extensive experience working with students of all ages (from 4 to 75) and all levels. She has served as an Associate Instructor in the Secondary Piano Program at IU Jacobs School of Music and as a Piano Instructor at the Pre-College and Adult Music Program at the University of Indianapolis. 

Currently, she holds faculty positions at the Young Pianists Program, Blossom Piano Camp at IU, Palmetto International Piano Festival at Erskine College, and Blue Lake Music Camp.

Jin has held leadership roles such as Founder and Director at IU Blossom Piano Camp, Administrative Assistant at the Piano Department of IU, Executive Assistant at IU Young Pianists Program and Summer Piano Academy, Chair of National Society of Arts and Letters' Instrumental Music Competition, Co-Founder and Co-Leader of Musical Time (a community engagement concert series), and President of the Music Teacher National Association (MTNA) Collegiate Chapter at IU.

Elizabeth Yaois a lecturer in music in piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she coordinates its secondary piano program, directs the Young Pianists program and the Summer Piano Academy, and teaches piano pedagogy. She holds a Doctor of Music in piano, with double minors in music theory and music history/literature, from the Jacobs School of Music, where she studied with Distinguished Professor André Watts.

She has been featured as guest soloist with the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic and the Coeur d’Alene Symphony, and as a guest artist on Spokane Public Radio’s From the Studio. Other distinctions have included prizes and awards from the Southern Illinois Young Artists Organization Instrumental Competition, Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Collegiate Scholarship Competition, Lima Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition, and Ladies Musical Club of Seattle Award Tour Competition. She has toured with the San Francisco Symphony Adventures in Music educational outreach program, performing for and teaching thousands of elementary school students throughout the San Francisco Unified School District.

Pianist Yujun Cao, a native of Shanghai, China, is currently a doctoral student at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the tutelage of Norman Krieger. He decided to pursue being a professional pianist after being admitted to the Oberlin Conservatory, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree. He went on to earn a Master of Music in Piano Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music. His performances have spanned across Asia, America, and Europe, with numerous invitations to perform at premier music festivals and halls in Boston, Miami, Bloomington, Rochester, and Salzburg, Austria. His teachers have included Alvin Chow, Alan Chow, and Roberto Plano. In 2023, he won first place in the instrumental category at the National Society of Arts and Letters competition in Indiana, and in 2024, he was invited to give the world premiere of Eclipse, a solo piano work by Marjorie Rusche, a composition professor at Indiana University South Bend. He was also the winner of Indiana University’s Scriabin Piano Concerto Competition in 2025.

Euyjong Choi, a native of South Korea, has studied and worked as a musician. By winning a special prize as the youngest candidate in the Young Tchaikovsky international competition, Choi started to distinguish herself as a pianist at eight. She has won various Korean national competitions, and attended international festivals including Leipzig Music Festival, the International Piano Academy at Seoul National University, Amalfi Coast Music Festival, and given her solo recitals as a selected student by her professors.

Choi is expanding her musical activity by working as a collaborative pianist and playing chamber music. Choi worked with many instrumentalists giving recitals assigned to different studios at Indiana University, and Michigan State University. She has played for competitions and auditions regularly, also performed with various chamber groups, and gave recitals with Piano Quintet, Piano Quartet, Two pianos, and four-hands piano groups. Recently, her four-hands chamber group released their album “Many Hands” which is about Women Composers’ four-hands pieces in January 2024. With this project, she performed in a Faculty-Guest recital at Michigan State University, Pleyel Concert Series at Scarab Club in Detroit, and she is planning to give a presentation and performance with it this coming March at the MTNA National Conference.

Dr. Choi holds her Doctor of Musical Arts degree with Dr. Derek Polischuk at Michigan State University with a Graduate Assistantship. She received her Master's degree and Performance Diploma in Piano Performance from Indiana University with a full scholarship recipient and Associate Instructor position. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Piano Performance from Seoul National University in South Korea.

Ms. Chenchun Ma is an active pianist, chamber musician, and emerging educator. She performs across the U.S., China, and Europe. Her recording of Kyle Werner’s Piano Trio with members of the Balourdet Quartet will be released in 2025 on Centaur Records.  

As a soloist, Ms. Ma has performed in major venues including Auer Hall, the Van Cliburn Concert Hall, Paul Hall, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Harris Hall, and many others across the U.S. and China. A passionate advocate for contemporary music, she collaborates with composers such as Kian Ravaei, Isaac Smith, and Wong Chun Wai, and regularly performs with the Jacobs Composition Academy. As a chamber musician, she has appeared at Juilliard ChamberFest, Morse Hall, The Kosciuszko Foundation House, and the Community Church in Aspen.  

She is a 2025 piano fellow at the Soundboard Institute at Honeywell Arts Academy and previously attended the Aspen Music Festival and School (2016–2019), the Mozarteum Salzburg Summer Academy (2018), and Juilliard’s PianoScope Project (2016).  

An emerging educator, Ms. Ma teaches in the Young Pianist Program and college secondary piano at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. She has presented at the 2025 MTNA National Conference and the 2024 MTNA Collegiate Symposium, and was a guest speaker for the Butler MTNA Collegiate Chapter and IU’s graduate piano pedagogy class. She has served as an evaluator for Indiana’s AIM Festival and taught in the P.A.L.S. Program at the Aspen Music Festival. She also taught ear training at both The Juilliard School and The Tianjin Juilliard School Pre-College Division.  

Committed to community engagement, she has performed in the MTNA @ IU series and as a Gluck Community Service Fellow, giving over 30 interactive performances in healthcare settings.  

Originally from Shanghai, she holds degrees from Juilliard and is pursuing her doctorate at Indiana University with Émile Naoumoff. 

Siwon Kim, a native of Seoul, South Korea, is praised for her “masterful musicality with the distinct, unrestrained sound”(The Segye Times). On the stage, she is “commanding and decisive” (South Bend Tribune). She actively performs in concert venues in North America, Europe, and Asia, including Mariinsky II (Russia), Musashino Hall, Toppan Hall (Japan), Harbin Concert Hall (China), the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Hill Auditorium (USA), Kumho Art Hall, and Universal Arts Center (South Korea).  

Dr. Siwon appears as a guest artist at the invitation of such festivals and concert series as the Harbin International Piano Music Festival (China), SNU Chopin Concert Series, SNU Piano Duo Ensemble Series (South Korea), and Ultreia Stage Concert Series (USA). She performed in the Prokofiev Piano Sonatas Marathon and Rachmaninoff Piano Marathon at the Toradze International Music Festival in Tbilisi, Georgia (2023,2024).  

Dr. Siwon also performed as a soloist with orchestras worldwide, including the South Bend Symphony, The Mariinsky Orchestra, and the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. Besides giving performances as a solo musician, She is also a versatile pianist in demand in chamber music. She has performed and worked internationally with Maestro Alexander Toradze as his designated Piano Duo Partner since 2017. She was invited to perform with the Contemporary Directions Ensembles of the University of Michigan for the “The Legacy of George Crumb: Angels and Stars” tribute series, “Zappa and Dead Elvis” and the “Gershwin Centennial Celebration: Rhapsody in Blue in 100” (2023, 2024).  

Dr. Siwon is a top prize winner of The Segye Times Competition, The Sunhwa Music Concours, The GMI Competition, The Sungjung Cultural Foundation Concours, Music International Grand Prix, and The Concert Artists International Competition. She also won prizes at numerous competitions, including The Korean National Students Competition, Korean-American Cultural Foundation Concours, The Eumak-Chunchu Competition, The Samick-Beckstein Concours, Suri Music Concours, The Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Competition, and W. Byrd International Piano Competition.  

Dr. Siwon began studying piano at three in Seoul under Young-Ja Lee. She continued her musical studies at the country’s most prestigious music schools, such as Sunhwa Arts School, Seoul Arts High School, and Seoul National University. She received multiple merit-based scholarships for most of her studies, as she ranked first in her class. Her teachers during this time included Youngsil Kim, Sekyoung Park, and Hyoung-Joon Chang. After graduating from Seoul National University with a Bachelor of Music degree, She moved to the States, joined the Toradze Piano Studio at Indiana University South Bend, and received an Artist Diploma and Master of Music degree.  

She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor under Prof. Arthur Greene's guidance. Dr. Siwon serves at Bethel University in Indiana as their new adjunct professor in Music. (2024)