She received her Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from the Juilliard School in 2013, studying with Matti Raekallio. While at Juilliard, she co-founded the T.R.I.O. Project (Teaching and Responding Through Internet Outreach).[2]
After graduating from the Glenn Gould School, Hwang abandoned her traditional piano performance career, working for some time as a commercial photographer. She resumed her musical activities through a series of videos on YouTube under the title Practice Notes using the name Nahre Sol, a nickname her father used to call her.[9]
Nahre Sol is best known for her YouTube channel,[10] with around 710,000 subscribers as of April 2024,[11] and as being co-host of the PBS Digital Studios show "Sound Field".[12] She has also been a guest host of NPR's Performance Today,[13][14] created a video for Wired magazine,[15] appeared as a guest on the online channel Physics Girl,[16] and collaborated with other composers and musicians such as David Bruce, Andrew Huang, Adam Neely, L.A. Buckner, Tantacrul, and Ben Levin.[17][18] She was nominated in the category Best YouTube Musician in the 12th Annual Shorty Awards in 2020.[19] The blog Pianote featured her YouTube channel in 2021 as #1 on their list of top YouTube pianists.[20] She was a guest artist at the 2018 Costa Rica Piano Festival.[21]
Sol was the Gold Medal Winner of the NFAA YoungARTS program, a semi-finalist of the Presidential Scholars in the Arts Program, recipient of the Sarra and Emmanuil Senderov Award at Arizona State University for the “Most outstanding performance of a piece by a Russian composer” at the 3rd Schimmel USASU International Piano Competition,[26] and won prizes at the “Tomorrow’s Stars” Competition held by the Orange County Performing Arts Center, the Spotlight Awards, the Idyllwild Arts Academy Concerto Competition, the Steinway Society of Redlands Piano Competition, the Young Artists Peninsula Music Festival, the Redlands Bowl Young Artists Auditions,[27] the MTAC State Concerto Competition, and the 2008 Bronislaw Kaper Awards for Young Artists,[28] She also was a contestant in such competitions as the William Kapell International Piano Competition and the 2015 National Chopin Competition in Miami, Florida.[29]
