Email:

kim883@iu.edu

Department:

Chamber and Collaborative Music

Kyunghoon Kim is visiting lecturer in music in chamber and collaborative music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

A native of South Korea, Kim made his debut at the age of 12 with the Solideo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been featured as a piano soloist with numerous orchestras in South Korea, Vietnam, and the United States, including two appearances with the IU Symphony Orchestra as a concerto competition winner. His performance of Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Maestro Arthur Fagen was praised as being “not only bombastic, but intensely musical, rich in nuances, introspective, lyrical” (TheHerald-Times).

Kim’s solo performing career includes prizes and awards from the Chautauqua Solo Piano Competition, Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Competition, Ben L. Gomez Piano Competition, National Society of Arts and Letters Instrumental Competition, Hanoi International Piano Competition, Haneol Music Competition, and Korea Piano Society Competition.

He is a sought-after collaborator whose repertoire encompasses all instruments, from strings to percussion, as well as vocal works. He has collaborated with renowned musicians such as Kathleen McLean, Stephen Lange, and Angel Subero. As an active chamber musician and educator, Kim performs regularly with his piano trio and has given master classes at universities such as Texas State University and Lynn University. Recently, he joined the IU Piano Academy as a piano duet coach.

Kim’s early education in music composition in his teenage years led him to his current activities as an arranger of classical, jazz, pop songs, and hymns for solo piano, and four-hands piano settings. These arrangements are performed by him and his wife, pianist Elizabeth Yao, and uploaded to his YouTube channel. More than 7,000 copies of his music have been sold on Musicnotes through his official partnership with them as a signature artist.

Kim earned a Doctor of Music in Piano Performance degree with double minors in music theory and early music (harpsichord) at Indiana University as a protégé of Arnaldo Cohen, with whom he also completed a Master of Music degree. His studies in early keyboard were with Elisabeth Wright. Kim earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance degree from Seoul National University, where he studied with Hyoung-Joon Chang and graduated as valedictorian of his class.