Yeon-Kyung Kim, Piano

Pianist Yeon-Kyung Kim is from South Korea and has grown a passion for performing and teaching. She is now pursuing her final degree in piano performance at University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) under the tutelage of James Tocco. Her former teachers include Aviram Reichert, Christopher Harding, and Emile Naoumoff, who was the last student of Nadia Boulanger. She has been a scholarship recipient throughout her music education.

Ms. Kim regularly performs as a solo pianist and a chamber musician. She performed at multiple venues at CCM, in Northern and Southern Indiana, Detroit Metropolitan area including Ann Arbor, and in Seoul, South Korea. She is a 1st prize winner in Chamber music at Seoul Art Concours, where she played as an initial member of Quartet Y. She also presented at masterclasses for John O’Conor, André Watts, Peter Takács, and Norman Krieger. Ms. Kim has served as a rehearsal pianist at CCM Opera for two consecutive years. For the 2020-2021 season, she is presenting various works with the CCM Wind Symphony as a soloist and keyboardist.

She has taught various piano group classes and private lessons as a Graduate Assistant of Secondary Piano of CCM. On top of teaching, Ms. Kim presents her pedagogy research on teaching Leonard Bernstein’s Anniversaries at conferences, such as, National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy and Music Teachers Association (Ohio & SouthWest Ohio). Her session “Talk to the Lens!: Recording Teaching Video” is selected for the 2021 Virtual Collegiate Chapter Symposium of MTNA, and she is also presenting at the 2021 MTNA National Conference with the CCM Collegiate Chapter in March.

Ms. Kim's private teaching ranges K-12, from beginner to early advanced, and online or in-person! From 2017, she has spent three summers at Indiana University Piano Academy (IUPA) as a Live-in Counselor, where she gained a new perspective on educating young advanced students and administrative skill.