John
Hyunil Hong (Organ)
was born in Inchon City, Korea. His musically gifted father, an organist
for over 30 years as well as a pastor and music teacher, saw that
John was innately musical and began teaching him piano at age 4. Between
the ages of 10 and 16, John and his family toured throughout Korea,
playing over 250 concerts. Soon after relocating to the US, John won
two scholarships from Allen Organ Studios, Inc., Mineola, to study
with Tom
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Hazleton,
John Weaver, Steven Frank and David Hegarty. The arrangement of the
toccata heard today by Frederick Swann was put on paper from a videotape
by John's late identical twin brother, Paul Sungil Hong. A scholarship
student at Juilliard School of Music, John is in his third year of
college.