Photo Credit: Sung-Chae Jung, Mullight Studio

Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall on Apr. 9, 2023 

About Hyemin

A versatile performing artist and educator, Dr. Hyemin Kim serves as a Collaborative Piano Faculty at Interlochen Arts Academy and has a wide range of musical careers as a soloist, recitalist, collaborator, chamber musician, and piano instructor.

As a featured soloist, Kim has been invited to perform with several orchestras, such as Philharmonische Solisten Bratislava (Mozart Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, Austria), Archi Chamber Orchestra (Sungsan Art Hall, South Korea), and Benzie Area Symphony Orchestra (Corson Auditorium, Interlochen, MI). She has also had numerous invitation performances throughout the U.S., Austria and Korea, including at the Youngsan Grace Hall, Daejeon Culture and Art Foundation (Korea); Bad Goisern Landesmusikschule, Panmusica Austria, Landesverband Steiermark, Grazer Landesmuseum (Austria); the American Protégé Foundation (Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall), Music House Museum, and The Alluvion (U.S.). Kim has won numerous international piano competitions, including the Internationaler Wiener Pianisten-Wettbewerb, where she received a Schubert Special Award; the Vienna Grand Prize Virtuoso Competition; the Concorso Internazionale de Esecuzione Musicale “NUOVI TALENTI” - Città di Spinea; the Tadini International Music Competition; the Concorso Internazionale - Città di Ischia; Fanny Mendelssohn International Competition; Franz Liszt Center Piano Competition, and American Protégé International Competition. 

As an active chamber musician, Kim has become a sought after collaborator. She was invited as a pianist at the Styrian Chamber Music Festival (Graz, Austria), and the Music House Museum (Acme, MI) has been organizing Hyemin Kim’s Chamber Music Recital Series since 2023 with renowned guest musicians including Nancy Stagnitta (Flute), Dr. Dane Philipsen (Oboe), Dr. Michael Coonrod (Piano), and Dr. Patrick Owen (Cello) from Interlochen Arts Academy. Her chamber music partners have included: Justin Benavidez (Associate Professor of Tuba/Euphonium, Eastman School of Music at Rochester University), Ethan Bensdorf (Trumpet, New York Philharmonic; Faculty, Manhattan School of Music), Hannah Hammel Maser (Principal Flute, Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Visiting Assistant Professor, Michigan State University), Sharon Sparrow (Assistant Principal Flute, Detroit Symphony Orchestra), Timothy Day (retired, Principal Flute, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra), Jarrett McCourt (Principal Tuba, Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra; Assistant Professor of Tuba/Euphonium, University of Missouri - Kansas City), Christina Jennings (Associate Professor of Flute, University of Colorado Boulder), Yung-Chiao Wei (Professor of Double Bass, Louisiana State University), Keith Bunke (Principal Bassoon, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Faculty, DePaul University), and more.

Dr. Hyemin Kim holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance, as well as her second Doctorate in Collaborative Piano from Michigan State University, fully supported by Graduate Assistantships as a full scholarship recipient; a Master of Music and Postgraduate Diploma from Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz, Austria; and a Bachelor of Music from Kookmin University, South Korea. While completing her double Doctorates at MSU, Kim served as a Piano Instructor at Flint Institute of Music and Chief Mentor & Executive Assistant at the Celebrating the Spectrum Piano Festival from Michigan State.

Education

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, US

Doctor of Musical Arts in Collaborative Piano, 2022

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, US        

Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance, 2021

Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz, Austria

Postgraduate Diploma in Piano Performance, 2016

Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz, Austria

Master of Music in Piano Performance, 2015

Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea                         

Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance, 2012