Praised by international press as “a
pianist who meets the highest standard of technique,” Angela Jeong Hyun Kim is
one of the rising young pianists showing her versatility through colorful
imagination, and intense musical expression. As a scholarship student at the
Eastman School of Music, Ms. Kim received the prestigious Henry Cobos Endowed
Piano Prize for demonstrating excellence in piano performance. In 2017 Ms. Kim
received the Free For All Concert Fund from the Boston Foundation. The fund was
used to bringing live classical concerts to underprivileged communities in
Greater Boston area. The same year, Ms. Kim also received the Emerging Artist
Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation in Boston.

Ms. Kim began piano studies at the age of
four, making her first public debut in her native South Korea, as the winner of
the SoongEui Competition when she was nine years old. Upon turning sixteen, Ms.
Kim came to the United States to continue her music studies with world-renowned
pedagogue Wha Kyung Byun. During that time she toured and performed in Panama,
and Guatemala, as a pianist with the New England Conservatory Youth
Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Zander. She is a frequent soloist
with the Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra, MI, with performances broadcasted
nationally on Interlochen Public Radio. Additionally, former GLCO Maestro,
Matthew Hazelwood, invited Ms. Kim to tour Colombia as a soloist with the
Filarmonica Joven de Colombia.

As an avid performer of new music, Ms. Kim
has been collaborating with the Callithumpian Consort, an internationally
recognized Boston based ensemble directed by pianist, Steve Drury. She worked
closely with many influential composers including Christian Wolff, Steve Reich,
Gunther Schuller, Jonathan Harvey, Frederic Rzewski, and Unsuk Chin. During her
DMA studies, Ms. Kim collaborated with Eastman’s Musica Nova where she worked
with Hans Abrahamsen and Chaya Czernowin. Along with the collaboration of percussionist
Andre Sonner, Ms. Kim has also formed a noteworthy Boston based
Piano/Percussion Duo performing new music for the genre as one of the very few
groups that exist in the country.

As a collaborative pianist, Ms. Kim has
performed with musicians such as Dylana Jenson, Margaret Batjer, Martin
Chalifour, and Paul Sonner. Ms. Kim frequently visits Interlochen Arts Academy
for the one week Institute to perform recitals with guest artists and faculty.
Through her education at NEC and Eastman, Ms. Kim has worked with renowned
pedagogues such as Donald Weilerstein, Paul Katz, Lawrence Lesser, Lucy
Chapman, and Russell Miller to name a few.

Ms. Kim has performed throughout the US,
South America, Italy, Germany, Austria, and Korea.

Her important artistic influences include
world-renowned pianists and pedagogues Russell Sherman, and Lev Natochenny.
Earning academic honors, Ms. Kim completed Bachelor and Master degrees, and
Graduate Diploma at the New England Conservatory of Music, as a student of Wha
Kyung Byun. She has finished her Doctorate of Piano Performance, and
Literature, at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Natalya Antonova. In
the past, Ms. Kim had served as a theory faculty at the New England
Conservatory of Music. She has joined the Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville as an Assistant Professor in Piano and a director of the keyboard
area in 2017.