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[May 24, 2010] Providence, R.I.– For Dr. Sang Woo Kang, assistant professor of music at Providence College, playing piano has been a lifelong passion.

Kang, who is currently balancing a busy performance schedule with his teaching duties, recalls first being exposed to the piano as a child in Seoul, South Korea.

“From the moment I heard the sound of the piano, I was captivated,” he said. “When I was five, I was taken to visit the local music school, which had a grand piano. I would sit in a trance making sounds from the minute I entered until we left.”

Shortly afterward, his parents purchased a piano, and Kang said that “since that moment, the instrument has never been out of reach.”

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