Teaching Artist Statement
The main focus of my teaching is finding the student’s weakness and teaching them how to work around it. Each student may have different technical difficulties due to their unique physical features. I take this into consideration when studying fundamentals and techniques, and is the main reason for my various teaching methods.
There are three basic areas of my teaching:
- Behavior- Posture, left hand behavior and arms placement
- Ensemble skills-Balance, intonation, anything related with mechanisms such as bow, contact points and vibrato, etc.
- Musical Skills-Dynamic story, translating into musicality.
Teaching Bio
Cellist Hwakyung (Kay) Jang, a native of South Korea, has performed throughout the United States and Korea. Ms. Jang received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music performance, on scholarship, from Manhattan School of Music under the guidance of Professor Marion Feldman. She also received her doctorate of Musical Arts degree from Boston University, under the tutelage of Professor Michael Reynolds.
Dr. Jang has been on the string faculty at Western Wyoming Community College and Powers Music School in Belmont. She joined South Shore Conservatory in 2021.
Performance Bio
Dr. Jang was the first prize recipient in the Barbara Krakauer Scholarship Award Competition from Associated Music Teachers League, Inc. She won the Young Musician Competition, and had a privilege of performing at Weill Carnegie Hall in New York City. She played “A Tribute to Pablo Cassals Cello Collaboration” directed by Marta Cassals Istomin and Bonnie Hampton. Dr. Jang also performed under the direction of Richard Aaron, Young-Chang Cho, Anita Leuzinger, and Richard Tunnicliffe at masterclasses.
Dr. Jang is the founder of V.I.E.W. foundation (Visual art, Instrumental music, Eye and ears, Witness and testify), an organization that encourages local artists and embraces communities. She has been a cellist with Boston Ensemble Soloists since 2017, and since 2019, a member of Miclot Chamber Players, who performed their debut concert in NYC at Bruno Walter Auditorium in Lincoln Center in 2021. She joined South Shore Conservatory in 2021.