Artist description Classical piano and chamber music

Music Style Classical

Musical Influences Two most important people in Kui Min's musical life are Cai Xin-Shu (Kui's mother), Zhen Da-Xin (Kui's only Chinese teacher who he stayed with for 10 years, who is nationally and internationally renowned piano pedagogue). And Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Scriabin, Horowizt, Rachmaninoff (as a pianist), John Browning, Samuel Howard, Gary Amano, Kelly Anderson, James Parker, Alexei Sultanov and legendary Toradze Piano Studio at IUSB.

Artist History Kui Min was graduated from the Middle School attached to Sichuan Conservatory of Music, one of the top conservatories in Asia. Kui Min studied music at University of Alabama at Birmingham, Utah State University in US and Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. Master classes with William Race, Dang Thai Son, Michael Ponti, Xiang Dong Kong, Kevin Fitz-Gerald, Leslie De'Ath, Heather Toews and Claude Cymerman; chamber music with Penderecki Quartet. Kui Min is currently continuing his graduate study at University of Notre Dame.

Instruments Piano

Albums Kui Min Piano Recital at Maureen Forrester Recital Hall

Press Reviews "Such compelling warmth, genuine passion, depth and intensity ... In the Chopin G flat impromptu Min idenitifies totally with idiom and substance, to an extent akin to the rareified sensibilities of Wasowski, Cortot and Kocalski ... What Min brings to music is an immediacy of affect, that is, an ability to communicate wholly and simply in the context of a larger poetic statement ... In Beethoven's A flat sonata, Op. 110, he brings forth its nobility with purposeful boldness comingled with tender reflection. Min is the genuine article, one who knows what inflection is all about, combined with an often beautiful, seductive and exceptionally rich tone, which is nowhere more evident than in his sumptuous, impassioned reading of Rachmaninoff's sprawling second sonata." - pianist and American Record Guide critic John Bell Young

Location Notre Dame, IN - USA

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