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Soo-Jung Shin received her musical training at the Seoul National University, the Vienna Academy of Music and the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Her teachers include Chung Jin-Woo, Josef Dichler, Leon Fleisher, Wilhelm Kempff and Maria Curzio Diamond. She won many prizes in music competitions including the Dong-A National Competition in Korea, the Elena Rombro Stepanow Competition in Vienna, etc. Soo was also awarded the Korean Academy of Arts Award and honored with the Order of Ok-Kwan Culture Medal.
She has performed with orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, KBS and NHK Symphony under the batons of Lim Won-Shik, Leon Fleisher, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Yuzo Toyama, Sir John Pritchard, Asahina Takashi, Iwaki Hiroyuki and others.
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She also appeared with the world famous performers such as Ruggiero Ricci, Nicolai Gedda, Janos Starker, Chung Kyung Wha and others. She has served on the juries of many prestigious competitions including the ARD, Dong-A, Tokyo, Köln, UNISA, Dublin, Hamamatsu, Sendai and other international music competitions.
Shin has taught at the Seoul National University, the Seoul School of Arts and the Kyung Won University. She served as Dean of the School of Music for 8 years at Kyung Won University. In 2000, she returned to the Seoul National University, where she originally started her teaching career as the youngest faculty member at its College of Music. She became the first woman dean of the College in 2005 until her retirement in 2007. She is Director of Mozart Concert Hall and Chairperson of the GMMFS (Great Mountain Music Festival & School) Committee. Shin also served as chairperson of the jury at Seoul International Music competition in 2008.