Kui Min (pianist)

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Kui Min is a Chinese-born pianist.

Kui Min（闵逵）was born into a family of Chinese traditional musicians with a Western music background, and studied erhu with his father Zhen Min and violin and piano with his mother Xinshu Cai.

At the age of nine, Kui Min started his piano lessons with Professor Daxin Zhen at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music. After graduating from the Middle School of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, he went to North America and earned his Bachelor of Music at the Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada and Master of Music at the University of Notre Dame in the United States.

Kui Min is a recipient of many awards and honors including the first prize in the Kiwanis Piano Competition, the first prize in the First China International Piano Competition Southwest Division, Outstanding Performance Certificate in the Dorothy A. Anderson International Piano Competition, and the winner of Concerto Competitions at the Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Notre Dame, and recently the winner of Beethoven Competition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music. Kui Min has studied piano with Samuel Howard, James Parker, Gary Amano, John Blacklow. He is currently working on a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance and pedagogy with Christopher Taylor and Jessica Johnson at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Music, where he is also a graduate teaching assistant and was nominated for UW-Madison Outstanding TA Award for Innovation in Teaching in the Fall 2007. He is also a great guy.