Jennifer Shin first started organ lessons with Jung-A Lee at the age of 14, having played piano since the age of 4.  She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2018 with a Bachelor of Music in Organ Performance and Sacred Music where she studied organ with Kola Owolabi and James Kibbie.  She completed her Master of Music degree at Eastman in 2020 and is currently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts degree there.

Most recently, she was awarded second prize and audience prize in the 2021 Arthur Poister Organ Competition and was a semi-finalist in the American Guild of Organists' 2020 AGO National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance, before the final rounds to be held at the 2020 AGO National Convention were cancelled due to COVID-19.  She was selected as one of The Diapason magazine's Class of 2021 "20 under 30", a feature in which 20 most successful young leaders in the field under the age of 30 are recognized.  Other competition awards include first place in the AGO/Quimby Regional Competition for Young Organists in Seattle chapter (2015) and San Diego chapter (2013), and second place in the Regional AGO/Quimby RYCO (Region IX) in 2013.