Ina Jun is a pianist and educator specializing in solo, chamber, and collaborative performance. Certified in a few traditional piano pedagogy programs and trained in our school’s teaching method Ina taught at the Hartt Community Division’s Preparatory Program, coaching chamber music and preparing students for competitions and examinations. Her students have won major regional and national prizes. She also serves as an adjudicator and emphasizes strong technical foundations and expressive individuality.
Ina has appeared in series including Puerto Piano & Strings, Festival of New American Music, Music at Noon, Renaissance Society Concerts, Saturday Musical Club, and Pacific Institute of Music Faculty Concert. In 2021, she won the Moshe Paranov Concerto Competition at the Hartt School with Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2.
Her chamber duo was featured at the Beethoven Institute at Mannes College. She also received first prizes in the Watson and Hartt Chamber Music Competitions. As a collaborative pianist, she has worked with the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, Camellia Symphony, Sacramento State Opera, and Sacramento Contemporary Dance Theatre.
Awards include first prizes in the Fresno Musical Club, Sekwang Piano, and Fine Arts Scholarship Competitions, along with scholarships from the Hartford Musical Club, Sacramento Saturday Musical Club, Hartt Performing Arts, and W.M. Vincent funds.
Originally from South Korea, she began piano at age four and trained at Fine Arts middle and high schools. She earned a BM (summa cum laude) from the Hartt School, MM from CSU Sacramento, and a DMA from the Hartt School under Paul Rutman. Her principal teachers include Richard Cionco, David Westfall, and Joo-yi Yoo.
She joins the collaborative piano program at The Juilliard School in Fall 2025 and we are thrilled to have her join our Manhattan Piano Academy teacher’s team starting fall 2025.