Piano: Junghwa Moon AUER

A native of Seoul, Junghwa Moon Auer began her piano studies at the age of six. She did her undergraduate work at Yeonsei University, and obtained her MM degree at New England Conservatory with Gabriel Chodos in 1996. She participated and performed in the Aspen Music Festival and other prestigious summer programs in Chautauqua, Lucerne, and Prague. At the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati Moon pursued her DMA under Eugene and Elizabeth Pridonoff, and won CCM’s concerto competition, performing the Schumann Concerto with the CCM Philharmonia under Mark Gibson.

In 2001 Ms. Moon returned to Korea, where she performed frequently in Seoul, Busan and Gwangju and taught at Seoul National University. During this time she performed as soloist with the Janácek Orchestra in the Czech Republic, the Zilina Orchestra in Slovakia and the Cairo Symphony in Egypt. Junghwa Moon Auer has been living in Bloomington, Indiana since 2006, where she and her husband Edward Auer host a house concert series, “Music in the Woods,” in their home.

鋼琴：奧爾．文晶和

韓國首爾土生土長文晶和，六歲開始習鋼琴，她於延世大學畢業，並於新英格蘭音樂學院隨鋼琴家曹度士學習，於1996年獲得音樂碩士的資格。她曾參與亞士本音樂節的演出，又分別於肖托誇、琉森、布拉格的夏季音樂節中演出。文氏對音樂充滿熱誠，於辛辛那提音樂學院完成音樂藝術博士學位，受教於佩頓諾夫夫婦。就讀期間，文氏於辛辛那提音樂學院協奏曲比賽中勝出，在馬克傑遜指揮之下，與辛辛那提音樂學院愛樂管弘樂團演奏舒曼協奏曲。

2001年，文氏回到家鄉韓國，屢次於首爾、釜山和光州演出，又於首爾大學任教。期間，文氏以獨奏者的身份與多個管弦樂團合作演出，如捷克愛樂管弦樂團、斯洛伐克的茜蓮娜管弦樂團以及埃及的開羅交響樂團。文晶和自2006年遷居至印第安納州的伯明頓居住，她與丈夫愛德華•奧爾在家中舉辦了一系列的迷你音樂會，名為“Music in the Woods”。