Violinist Jin-Kyung Joen has performed and taught extensively in Italy, USA, Poland, Greece, and Korea for various music festivals, concert series, and institutions. Since 1996, Ms. Joen has maintained violin studios at New England Conservatory Preparatory School and privately. She is currently the Chair of the String Department at Rivers School Conservatory in Weston, MA. Previously, she was a faculty member at the Emerson/Harris Program at MIT, Killington Music Festival, Foulger International Music Festival, and Festival Internazionale Bosa Antica. From 2017 to 2019, Ms. Joen served as the Artistic Director of Project STEP, a string training and education program for students from underrepresented communities. Ms. Joen was instrumental as a member of the initial committee in the formation of Boston BEAM (Bridge to Equity and Achievement in Music), a consortium of Boston Symphony, Boston University, Community Music Center of Boston, New England Conservatory and Project STEP, sponsored by the Mellon Foundation.

Ms. Joen has appeared internationally in solo recitals, chamber music, and orchestral performances, collaborating with distinguished musicians such as Carlo Maria Giulini, Aaron Rosand, Lya De Barberiis, Shmuel Ashkenazi, Marc Johnson, Vincenzo Mariozzi, Roman Totenberg, Ronald Feldman, and Marcello Viotti. Ms. Joen has performed with the Revere Piano Quartet, Terezin Music Foundation, Quartetto Schulhoff, I Filarmonici di Torino, I Solisti Aquilani, Ensemble Barattelli, Academia Filarmonica Romana, and Ensemble Perugina. She has performed in various summer festivals such as Killington Music Festival, Foulger International Music Festival, Festival Internazionale Bosa Antica, Norcia Summer Festival, L’Aquila-Miami Festival, Sulmona Music Festival, and Festival Internazionale di Musica di Portogruaro.

Ms. Joen’s teaching focus is the application of the method and interpretative style of celebrated Russian pedagogue Zinaida Gilels. Ms. Joen’s students have been top-prize winners of several international, national, and regional competitions, including the Boston Symphony Concerto Competition, Boston Pops/Fidelity Competition, From the Top, Arthur Grumiaux International Competition (Brussels, Belgium), Costa Rica Young Soloist Competition, Alexander and Buono International Competition (NYC), and all categories of NEC Prep Concerto Competition. Her students have performed as soloist on the stages of Boston Symphony Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall, Lincoln Center, Jordan Hall, and the Tsai Center. Ms. Joen’s students have gained acceptance to the leading conservatories, liberal arts colleges, international music festivals, as well as top level youth orchestras.

Ms. Joen holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from Boston University, an Artist Diploma from the Boston Conservatory, and a Bachelor of Music from the Conservatorio di Piacenza, Italy. She studied violin with Zinaida Gilels, Pavel Vernikov, Roman Totenberg, Mario Ferraris, Pasquale Pellegrino, and Ilya Grubert, and chamber music with Piero Farulli (Quartetto Italiano), Ronald Feldman, and members of Trio Tchaikovsky, the Lydian Quartet and I Musici.