As the winner of the Chicago Civic Orchestra Soloist Competition, Caroline Hong made her debut in Orchestra Hall in a performance of Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto under the baton of Michael Morgan. She has also performed with the Utah Symphony, Richmond Symphony, and Columbus Symphony Orchestra among others. She has competed internationally in the Van Cliburn International Audition, the Robert Casadesus International Competition, William Kapell International Piano Competition, UNISA International Piano Competition, and was selected to compete in the Montréal International Piano Competition.
Caroline Hong has performed in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall as a winner of the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition, and has received numerous other prizes, including Distinguished Performer of the Palm Beach International Piano Competition, Laureate of the Beethoven Foundation, shared 1st prize of the Society of American Musicians, and 1st prize in the Music Academy of the West Piano Concerto Competition.
As a young artist, she was named Orange County’s Best Pianist, and was a winner in the Bach Festival of Southern California. She has been a featured performer on Robert Sherman’s ‘Young Artists Showcase’ (New York Times Radio) and numerous other radio broadcasts throughout the nation as well as abroad in Pretoria, South Africa.
Before the age of three, Caroline Hong began the study of piano with her mother. Her piano professors include Sergei Babayan, Jerome Lowenthal, Dmitrii Paperno, Martin Canin, Fernando Laires, Ann Schein, Karen Shaw, Mary Dietzer, Michel Block, and James Tocco. She has participated in the master classes of John Browning, Leon Fleisher, Charles Rosen, Menahem Pressler, and Gyorgy Sebok. She has been a collaborative pianist for the studios of Bernard Adelstein, Joseph Gingold, Janos Starker, Camilla Williams and Yuval Yaron, as well as for the Peabody Concert Singers, Peabody-Hopkins Chorus, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Chorus, and Baltimore Choral Arts Society under the baton of Maestro Edward Polochick.
Entering the Peabody Conservatory at the Johns Hopkins University at age 17, she completed her B.M. through an accelerated program with honors recognition, and received her M.M. from the Juilliard School by the time she was 21. She holds a D.M. degree in Piano Performance from Indiana University with minors in Music History and Music Education, and where she served as an Associate Instructor in both Theory and Piano.
Currently, Dr. Hong is on the faculty as Associate Professor of Piano at The Ohio State University.