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Elaine Kwon is a prize-winning concert pianist, martial artist / Wilhelmina fitness model, and a Lecturer in Music at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has performed solo and chamber music concerts in the U.S., internationally, and has been broadcast on television and radio in the U.S., Canada, China, and Bulgaria. Kwon received standing ovations at her sold-out Carnegie Hall benefit concerts at Weill Hall (2008), and Zankel Hall (2010, 2011, 2012), as well as her solo concerto performances with the Toronto Philharmonia Orchestra, Slovak Sinfonietta, New York Chamber Virtuosi, Union Symphony and National Music Festival Symphony. She has been an active chamber musician with OCTET, Forecast New Music Group, Hebert/Kwon piano duo, among others, and records on the Artist's Choice Recording label. Elaine holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance. She is Piano Mentor at the National Music Festival, and has been on the music department faculty at MIT since 1999.

As an avid martial artist, Elaine is a second-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do (five-time U.S. National Forms Champion) and currently studies Shaolin Kung Fu. She represented Nike in Asian ad campaigns, has appeared in Vogue, Elle, Women’s Health, and numerous other magazines, ads, videos, books, and is represented by Wilhelmina Models. She has been a featured guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show, was honored as a 2008 Power Woman of New York, and was the subject of a documentary for the Arirang television series, Dream It in 2010, which was broadcast to eighty-nine million households internationally. In 2012, she was profiled on the Better TV Show segment, "Women Who Inspire" and ALIST Magazine showcased her in the 2013 Female Leaders Issue. She is Co-founder/President of Savor Your Senses™, a conversational concert series pairing music with wine, food, and other arts. She is also the creator of Life Chord™, a lifestyle platform intertwining Passion, Health and Purpose to foster high performance living.