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 Kui Min was born into a family of musicians of three generations. In his youth years, he studied erhu with his father Zhen Min who was a professor and the head of the Traditional Instrument Department at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, and violin and piano with his mother Xinshu Cai. When he was nine years old, Kui Min started his piano lessons with renowned piano pedagogue Professor Daxin Zhen at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music. After graduating from the Middle School of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music with highest honours, he came to North America with full scholarships, earned his Honours Bachelor of Music at the Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, two Master of Music degrees at the University of Notre Dame and Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Wisconsin‐Madison in the US.
Kui Min is a highly praised performer. He is a recipient of numerous awards and honours, including Outstanding Performance Certificate in Dorothy A. Anderson International Piano Competition, the winner of Concerto Competitions at the Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Notre Dame, the winner of Beethoven Competition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the First Prize in Southwest Division Selective Trail of First China International Piano Competition. Kui Min has worked with Dang Thai Son, Michael Ponti, Frederic Rzewski, Malcolm Bilson, Claude Cymerman, and William Race in the masterclasses. An enthusiastic chamber musician, Kui Min has worked closely with Penderecki String Quartet, Pro Arte String Quartet and participated masterclasses of Emerson String Quartet and Miami String Quartet. Kui Min has been heard in many concert venues throughout Canada, USA, Japan and China. He has toured with The Canadian Consort let by former Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony principle conductor Chosei Komatsu, representing Canadian government, performing in fourteen cities in Japan including solo performance for The Imperial House of Japan at The Embassy of Canada in Tokyo.
A recipient of the Steinway & Sons Top Teacher Award, Kui Min is also a passionate teacher whose students have received top honours in international, national and regional competitions in North America, and have been invited to perform at the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Wiener Musikverein in Vienna, the Beethoven House in Bonn, the Parco della Musica in Rome and the Philharmonie de Paris. Kui Min has been invited to give masterclasses at several American universities and has presented his research at the National Conference of College Music Society in the US. He has also served as senior adjudicator in numerous piano competitions in Wisconsin, US, and North York Music Festival, Arts Richmond Hill Music Festival, Markham Music Festival, Newmarket Lions Club Music Festival, Crescendo International Music Competition and Classicalia Global Televised Music Competition in Canada. Kui Min has taught at the University of Notre Dame Department of Music and the University of Wisconsin‐Madison School of Music, and has served on the faculty at the Rhapsody Arts Center and the Einstein School in Wisconsin, US and International Music Academy, Ware Academy of Music and World Academy of Music in Canada. Kui Min owes much of his success to several outstanding teachers, including James Parker, Christopher Taylor, John Blacklow, Samuel Howard, Jessica Johnson and Gary Amano. Kui Min lives in Toronto with his wife Jenny and son Kevin and maintains a private studio.
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