Annie Kwok

Director

Annie Kwok began studying the piano at age four in her hometown of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, where her teachers included the late Ellen Masaki and Dr. Thomas Yee. She received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in piano performance with a Music-In-Education concentration from the New England Conservatory of Music, studying with Bruce Brubaker. Annie has also worked with  renowned musicians such as Jane Coop, Steve Drury, Leon Fleisher, Norman Krieger, Robert McDonald, and Menahem Pressler. 

Interested in transforming the dynamics of audience-performer relationships, Annie has curated community performances and interactive programs as an NEC Community Performances and Partnerships fellow, Early Education Music intern at the Rock and Roll Daycare in Cambridge, and member of From The Top's Center for the Development of Arts Leaders. She has gone on  several international tours as a resident Lincoln Center Stage pianist, eating, zip-lining, and hiking her way through 30 different countries while performing chamber music programs on ships ranging from Brahms and Schumann quintets to Coldplay and Led Zeppelin arrangements. 

Annie has been a summer fellow of the Colburn Academy, Indiana University Piano Academy,  and the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. She is Creative Residency Director and pianist of  the Windwood Music Festival, a summer chamber music festival in Alberta, Canada dedicated to providing inclusive classical music concerts outside the concert hall and nurturing young artists through a two-week creative project residency. Annie is currently based in Honolulu as a freelance pianist and maintains a full teaching studio at the Masaki School of Music.