Dr. Eunbyol Ko

Staff Accompanist

A native of South Korea, Eunbyol Ko is Staff Accompanist and Coordinator of the Collaborative Piano area at Austin Peay State University. She maintains an active performing career and has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician throughout North America, Europe, and South Korea. She has performed with the Kyungwon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Queen City Chamber Orchestra, and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, and her performances have been televised and broadcast nationally on MBC in Korea as well as Waterloo’s KCFP in Canada.

Prior to joining the music department at Austin Peay, Eunbyol Ko was a chamber music coach and accompanist and for the renowned Starling String Project in Cincinnati. In 2009 she was invited to serve as an official accompanist for the Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria. Eunbyol Ko has also served as an accompanist for the Grandin Festival in Cincinnati, the Young-Pyong Clarinet Festival in South Korea, and the Voice Department at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, for which she was Graduate Assistant in Vocal Accompanying.

Also an active teacher, Eunbyol Ko has taught undergraduate and graduate students in the Secondary Piano Department at the Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music (CCM) and served for five years on the faculty of the CCM Preparatory Department. Her students have won numerous awards and many have gone on to pursue careers in music. An active member of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) as well, she was selected to present a poster at the National Conference in Atlanta, GA in 2009.

Eunbyol Ko’s competition honors include first prizes in the South Korea National Piano Competition, the Eum-Yeon competition in South Korea, and the CCM Chamber Music Competition. She was also a prize winner in the International Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition and the Kankakee Young Artists Concerto Competition.

Eunbyol Ko holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a Masters degree in piano from Indiana University at Bloomington, and a Bachelors degree in piano from Kyungwon University in Korea. Her former teachers include Soo-Jung Shin, Shigeo Neriki, Eugene Pridonoff, and she is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at CCM under the guidance of James Tocco.

Phone: (931)221-6248
Email: koe@apsu.edu