Christine Eunmi Shin

Director & Founder

Christine Shin is the Founder and Director of New Mozart School of Music. Her teaching career began in 1989, when she established her private piano studio with a vision of providing thoughtful, rigorous, and inspiring music education rooted in tradition and care for the individual student.

Christine has guided students through Certificate of Merit exams, Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music exams, and National Guild Piano Auditions, where her students have consistently earned high marks and recognition from juries. Her students have also received awards and scholarships, performed at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Musikverein, and some have gone on to pursue professional musical careers.

Christine’s musical lineage traces back through Busoni to Brahms, Beethoven, and Haydn. Deeply inspired by her own teachers, she is committed to passing on the great tradition of music making while nurturing each student’s unique musical voice.

New Mozart School of Music represents the realization of Christine’s long held dream to make exceptional music education accessible to students of all ages and levels. She has carefully built a faculty of dedicated musicians from around the world who are not only outstanding performers and teachers, but who also understand the developmental, emotional, and practical needs of music students and families.

Christine holds a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from San Jose State University, with a minor in Voice Performance. Her additional trainings include studies in Orff at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Dalcroze at the Juilliard School of Music, and Piano Pedagogy at the Eastman School of Music. She has been shaped as a pianist and pedagogue by many distinguished teachers in both the United States and Europe, including Alfred Kanwischer, Jonathan Bass, and Marina Grin. She studied voice with Raymond Nielsson and Joseph Frank, and in Europe worked with Martyn Van den Hoek, Marjes Benoist, Volker Banfield, and Grigory Gruzman.

As a performer, Christine has appeared as a soloist with the San Jose State University Choir and has performed in the San Francisco Bay Area, South Korea, and Austria.

Christine and New Mozart School of Music have been featured in Metro Newspaper and Washington Square Magazine, San Jose State University’s alumni publication. She has also served as Chair of the Palo Alto branch of the National Guild of Piano Teachers and has adjudicated for National Guild Piano Auditions.

At the heart of Christine’s work is a belief that music education should be both deeply grounded and deeply human. Through New Mozart, she continues to build a community where tradition, excellence, and joy in music come together.