A native of South Korea, Hyun Ju Jang graduated from the prestigious Seoul National University, and earned her Master of Music degree from Mannes College, where she received a scholarship to study with Yuri Kim. She completed an Artist Diploma in piano performance at the Yale School of Music under Professor Claude Frank. She also served as assistant to Claude Frank and as a staff pianist at Yale University. Since 2010, she has worked for the Morse Academy Summer Festival at Yale as a piano faculty, and has taught piano lessons to young students at John C. Daniels School of International Communication as well as at the Community School of Arts at UConn. She has participated at the 2011 Hugo Kauder Competition, 2013 NATS Competition, and 2011-2015 BLYAP Summer Music Festival as a staff accompanist. Currently, Ms. Jang is pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Connecticut under Professor Irma Vallecillo.
Ms. Jang was the first-prize winner of the Summit Music Festival Concerto Competition in Tarrytown, NY, as well as the UConn Concerto Competition and the Seoul National University Concerto Competition. She also won the Segye Ilbo (World News) Competition, the Chosun Ilbo (Korean Newspaper) Competition, the Korean Duo Competition, and the Seoul Symphony Orchestra Competition. She has also made appearances with the Kwachon Philharmonic, the Gunpo Philharmonic, the Eurasian Chamber Orchestra, the Seoul National University Orchestra, the Seoul Symphony Orchestra, the Yale Chamber Orchestra, the UConn Symphony Orchestra, the Willimantic orchestra, as well as the Lublin Orchestra in Poland. She has performed at the Norfolk Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Beethoven Institute, the International Keyboard Institute at Mannes, Tenerife Music Festival in Spain, the International Music Academy in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana in Italy, the Carnegie Hall, the Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York, and the Kumho Young Artist Solo Series. As a member of Quartet Unlimited, JKL Trio, and Trio Etereo, she has performed in various renowned venues in United States, Europe, and Asia.
Ms. Jang has worked with international artists such as Yefin Bronfman, Eteri Andjaparidze, Robert Levin, Anton Kuerti, David Shifrin, Stephen Clapp, Boris Berman, and Peter Frankl. She was the recipient of Elizabeth Parisot Prize at Yale University, awarded to an outstanding pianist, and currently received an EB Storrs scholarship from the Musical Club of Hartford.