01/13/2026
Welcome back to Dr. Michael Min! This is going to be a great concert!!
Alumni Spotlight!
Michael Min (MM Piano Performance, 2016) will be featured on MTSU's Keyboard Artist Series on Friday, January 23 at 7:00pm in Hinton Hall. Admission is free and open to the public. Dr. Min is currently on faculty at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He was a student of Dr. Adam Clark and Dr. Eunbyol Ko during his time at MTSU.
Michael Min is a versatile Korean-American pianist whose artistic breadth spans solo performance, chamber music, vocal collaboration, and concerto work. He has appeared at distinguished venues including Orchestra Hall (MN), Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall (NY), Duncan Hall, Hinton Hall, Antonello Hall, the Dinu Lipatti Recital Hall (Romania), Luis A. Calvo Hall (Colombia), and the KEPCO Art Center (South Korea), among others.
His performance accolades include top prizes at competitions such as the Venusto Music Competition (sponsored by the Mayor of Seoul), The American Prize, the Paderewski International Piano Competition (Connecticut Chopin Foundation), the Carles and Sofia International Piano Competition, the Franz Liszt Center International Piano Competition, the Calabria International Piano Competition, the Orbetello International Piano Competition, and the Concorso Città di Massa in Italy. He has also received honors at the Miedzynarodowy Konkurs Muzyczny Małopolska (Poland), the Charleston International Piano Competition, the Music International Grand Prix (NY), and the Forte International Music Competition (NY), where he received the Grand Prize. Additional recognitions include winning the Concerto Competition at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities and the Seoul National Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, as well as the Concerto & Aria Competition as a tenor with the Kenwood Symphony Orchestra.
As a soloist, Min has performed with the Seoul National Symphony Orchestra, the Middle Tennessee State University Wind Ensemble, and the University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, under conductors Ik-Sung Joo and Mark Russell Smith. He has also appeared as a tenor soloist with the Kenwood Symphony Orchestra and the Linden Hills Chamber Orchestra, performing arias such as E lucevan le stelle (Puccini) and Vesti la giubba (Leoncavallo). In 2022, he was featured as a guest artist at the 39th Festival Internacional de Piano at the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia.
A dedicated chamber musician, Min is co-founder of the soloist ensemble MUZIK—an ensemble of University of Minnesota alumni that performs throughout the United States, China, and South Korea. He is also a member of the HLM Trio (Mary-Alice Hutton, violin; Ava Lambert, cello), recipients of awards from the Golden Classical Music Awards and the King’s Peak International Music Competition. His collaborative work has also included performances with acclaimed musicians such as Dr. Timothy Lovelace, Dr. Seokho Park, Dr. Jeduthun Kim, Ashly Hall-Tighe, Philip Zawisza, and others.
Dr. Min currently serves as Lecturer in Piano at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, where he supervises graduate teaching assistants and coordinates the secondary piano program. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, where he studied with Dr. Kyung Kim, and a Master’s degree in Collaborative Piano and Coaching under Dr. Timothy Lovelace. He also earned a Master’s degree in Piano Performance from Middle Tennessee State University, studying with Dr. Adam Clark and Dr. Eunbyol Ko, and a Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance from Sahmyook University in Seoul, where his principal teachers included Sook-Jin Lee, Joo-Soon Lee, and Won-Eui Lee.
