Dongsok Shin

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Dongsok Shin was born in Boston, started modern piano lessons at the age of four with his mother, Chonghyo Shin, and continued studying with Nadia Reisenberg at the Mannes College of Music in New York City. Post college, he converted exclusively to early keyboard instruments – harpsichord, fortepiano, and organ – in the early 1980s.

Mr. Shin has been a member of the internationally acclaimed baroque ensemble REBEL since 1997. He has appeared with the American Classical Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra, ARTEK, Bach Sinfonia (Washington), Concert Royal, Dryden Ensemble, Early Music New York, New York Philharmonic, NYS Baroque, Orchestra of Saint Luke’s, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Parthenia, Pro Musica Rara, Tafelmusik (Toronto),m Tempesta di Mare (Philadelphia), and the Washington Bach Consort, among others. He has accompanied Renée Fleming, Rufus Müller, Jed Wentz, Marion Verbruggen, and Barthold Kuijken in recital. He received international recognition as music director of baroque opera productions with the Mannes Camerata. He has toured throughout the Americas and Europe and has been heard on numerous radio broadcasts.

Mr. Shin is well known as a performer, recording engineer, producer, and editor of early music recordings for Acis Productions, ATMA Classique, Bridge, Dorian Sono Luminus, Ex Cathedra, Helicon, Hollywood Records, Lyrichord, Naxos, and Newport Classic. He tunes and maintains early keyboard instruments for the Flint Collection in Delaware, and in New York City for the Metropolitan Opera, and the Metropolitan Museum. His YouTube videos produced by the Met Museum, demonstrating their earliest known Bartolomeo Cristofori fortepiano from 1720, have garnered almost a half-million views. He and his wife, the early keyboard player, Gwendolyn Toth, have three grown children, two cats, and about 20 early keyboards at last count(!).