Jin-Sung Moon
Principal Clarinetist, Harbin Symphony Orchestra
China
Equally versatile in chamber music, Moon performed in a Steinway Series Concert at Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC with Bassoonist Phillip Kolker, and in Asger Hamerik Recital Series at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The collaboration with renowned musicians such as Leon Fleisher, Gustav Meier, Lu Jia, Ning Feng, Huang Mengla, Amit Peled, Marina Piccinini, John Corigliano, etc, enriched Moon’s musical sensibility.
Moon holds a Bachelor’s of Music degree from the Korea National University of Arts and moved to the United States to attend the Peabody Conservatory where he earned his Master of Music degree and Graduate Performance Diploma. He was a recipient of James Backas Memorial Scholarship and Cosimo C Abato Clarinet Scholarship, and was awarded Martha and William Bill Memorial Prize and James Winship Lewis Memorial Prize. He was under the tutelage of Kwang-Ho Oh, Sung-Taek Hong and Steven Barta.