Ye In Kwak

Korean pianist and coach Ye In Kwak is in her second year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, where she will make her Met Music Staff debut as an Assistant Conductor in Eugene Onegin and perform in the Program’s Patron Concert of opera scenes and annual spring recital series held at Merkin Hall. Her most recent engagements include serving as staff pianist and coach at the 2025 Ravinia Festival and participating in the prestigious Georg Solti Accademia Répétiteur Training Course in Venice, Italy. In 2024, she joined the ranks at Wolf Trap Opera as a Coaching Fellow, where she served as a coach and rehearsal pianist for La Bohème under the baton of Maestro Grant Gershon and Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins. Additional engagements include playing harpsichord for Idomeneo and Haydn’s The Creation with Aspen Opera Theater and Aspen Music Festival, and coach for several productions with Korea National University of the Arts, including Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Eugene Onegin, Così fan tutte, and L’Elisir D’Amore. An avid collaborator on concert and recital works, she has performed with the New England Symphonic Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, the Sandra and Jeremiah Lambert Concert Series with the Society of the Four Arts, in recitals held at The Greene Space with WQXR LIVE and New York Public Radio, and as part of Renée Fleming's SongStudio at Carnegie Hall. She is an alumna of the Moscow Gnessin Special School of Music in Russia, the Georg Solti Accademia, the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS Program, and Wolf Trap Opera Coaching Fellowship. She holds degrees in piano performance and collaborative piano from Seoul National University, Korea National University of Arts, and the Manhattan School of Music.