The Newport Beach Public Library presents Duo Art, a collaboration project of pianists Kookhee Hong and Minji Noh, in a Sunday Musicale on January 12, 2020 at 3 p.m. in the Central Library Friends Room, 1000 Avocado Avenue, Newport Beach.

Duo Art is a collaboration project of pianists Kookhee Hong and Minji Noh. Formed in 2014, they recently presented programs at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School, Chapman University, Irvine Valley College and Chaffey College. While their collaboration is relatively new, they are already in demand as recitalists and will present an afternoon filled with an eclectic mix of music written for one piano, four hands.

Dr. Kookhee Hong, a native of South Korea, began piano lessons at age four and won first prizes in numerous Korean national competitions before continuing her studies at Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia under tutelage of Elenor Sokoloff. Frequently in demand as a recitalist abroad, she also appeared as a soloist with the Tenerife Symphony, the Manhattan Symphony, the Carlet Sinfonia, the Gran Canaria Philharmonic and the Panama National Symphony Orchestra.  Dr. Hong currently teaches as an adjunct professor at Hope International University.

Dr. Minji Noh is active as a soloist and a chamber musician, and praised as a “superb pianist” by the Boston Globe. She started her piano career at age nine as a soloist with the Baroque Symphony in South Korea.  She is currently an adjunct faculty of music at Irvine Valley College and Chaffey College. Dr. Noh graduated from both the Oberlin Conservatory and the New England Conservatory and completed her doctoral degree in piano performance at University of Southern California.

This event is funded by generous donations from the Friends of the Library.  Admission is free. Seating is first come, first serve, limited by room capacity.