Gray School of Music, Piano Faculty, Teacher

Dr. Heejung Kang was born in Seoul, Korea, and studied at the Seoul Music and Art High School for musically gifted teenagers. She hqas taught at the Gray School since 2002. She graduated with highest honors from the College of Music, Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul and later at the same university, she earned her Master’s Degree in Piano, receiving the Ewha Graduate Research Fellowship Scholarship. She earned a Doctorate in Musical Arts in Piano Performance at the University of North Texas, after completing her doctoral dissertation on Rachmaninoff. She is now an Adjunct Professor of Piano Studies at U.N.T. She has made a recording of the “Rediscovered Lieder and Piano Pieces by Kletzki, Oppel, and Schenker,” sponsored by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Jewish Federation, and College of Music at UNT. She has studied Schenkerian Analysis with Dr. Timothy Jackson as well as privately with Carl Schachter, distinguished professor at University of New York City. Ms. Kang is also an experienced piano teacher of both children and adults. Dr. Kang and her husband, Timothy, a professor of musicology at UNT, are expecting their first child in August, 2007.