Minji Noh

Praised as a “superb pianist” by the Boston Globe, Dr. Minji Noh is active as a soloist and a chamber musician. She started her piano career at age nine as a soloist with the Baroque Symphony in South Korea and has subsequently appeared with the others like Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra, State Academic Orchestra of Ukraine, Orange County Symphony, La Mirada Symphony, and Bellflower Symphony. Dr. Noh has performed all over the United States in well-known venues such as the Jordan Hall, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, The Lied Center, Orange County Performing Arts Center, Bowdoin College, Bates College, University of Ontario of Canada, Boston University, and University of California at San Diego. A strong believer in collaboration in music, she is a founding member of Trio Alectrona, Irvine Trio and MusiShare Chamber Players. In addition, her playing has been broadcast on South Korea’s KBS (Korean Broadcasting System), Irvine Public Television, and Wellesley Public Television, and has been heard on radio stations such as KUSC FM 91.5 and GBC 1190 AM of Los Angeles, California.

An avid interpreter of new music, Dr. Noh premiered A Piano Piece by Christian Wolff at the New England Conservatory of Music’s PianoFuture Festival in 2007 and worked with Steve Reich in the New Music Festival at Jordan Hall, Boston the same year. Boston Globe described Dr. Noh’s performance of Stockhausen’s Kontakte as “unrelenting”. Her current project includes a lecture-recital on use of musical quotation in post modern works by George Crumb, Charles Ives, Helmut Lachenmann and John Zorn.

Dr. Noh has won numerous awards in piano performance including top awards at the Long Beach Mozart Festival, the International Young Artists Peninsula Music Festival, the CAPMT (California Association of Professional Music Teachers) Bartok Festival Statewide, Los Angeles Liszt International Liszt Competition and the MTAC (Music Teachers Association of California) Concerto Competition. She has worked with renowned teachers such as Jerome Rose, Gabriel Chodos, Lynn Czae, Victor Rosenbaum, Young Hi Moon and Barry Snyder. She graduated from both the Oberlin Conservatory (B.M.) and the New England Conservatory (M.M. & G.D.) as a scholarship student. Her principal teachers include Patricia Zander, Angela Cheng, Stephen Drury, Antoinette Perry, Ick-Choo and Hae Young Moon. Dr. Noh completed a doctoral degree in piano performance at University of Southern California under the tutelage of Norman Krieger.

In addition to performing, Dr. Noh is passionate about teaching and serves on the boards of non-profit organizations such as the MTAC (Music Teachers Association of California) and the CAPMT (California Association of Professional Music Teachers). She currently serves as Orange County Director of JCM (Junior Chamber Music) and MTAC State Chair of Friends of Today's Music and Contemporary Music Seminar. She resides in Orange and is an Adjunct Professor of Music at Irvine Valley College.