Peter Kwon

Peter Kwon, a native Korean, has participated and won top prizes at numerous competitions such as, the William Marbury Competition, Southwestern Music Competition, and Musical Arts Competition. At his 2003 Los Angeles debut, Ms. Kim described Mr. Kwon in Korean Times Concert Review as having “wide dynamic expression, rarely powerful sounded, softness like silk.”

Award-winning violist Peter Kwon performs as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician throughout the US. In recent seasons, he has performed with Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Concert Artists of Baltimore, Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, and Pacific Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared as a soloist and principal violist for Richard Strauss’s Don Quixote with the Peabody Symphony orchestra in 2013. He has also appeared as a soloist with Pacific Symphony Orchestra and South Coast Symphony in Los Angeles. Studying chamber music under such masters as Leon Fleisher, Marina Piccinini, CJ Chang and Herbert Greenberg, it has made a tremendous musical impact on Kwon.

Mr. Kwon holds a Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in Violin Performance and Graduate Performance Diploma in Viola Performance from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. As an undergraduate, Peter was concertmaster of the Peabody Concert Orchestra for two years and he received the Peabody Presser Scholarship Award. During his graduate year, he was concertmaster and principal of the Peabody Symphony Orchestra and Conductors Orchestra. For each of his six years as a student at Peabody, Peter was a recipient of the Peabody Merrit based Scholarship. His teachers included Herbert Greenberg, Anne Thatcher and Ruggiero Ricci. He is currently a graduate performance diploma candidate on scholarship at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore where he studies viola performance with CJ Chang. Since 2014, Mr. Kwon was a recipient of the Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Orchestral Scholarship.